July 25th, 2010 by admin

This week’s banner image was submitted by Ed Miksch. Thanks for participating, Ed!

Image Details:
Continental Divide taken near Winter Park, Colorado. The camera is shooting towards the E-SE. Beyond the Divide would be the city of Denver. Shown is the shooting information from my Canon T1i. The photo was enhanced and cropped with Photoshop Elements, ver 7. Plug-ins used were the B+W software warming filter and NIK software Viveza ver 2. The Viveza Control Points “structure” slider was used on the clouds. It was at a DIG meeting where I 1st saw Viveza demo and it has became my indispensible plug-in tool.

Camera: Canon T1i
Aperture-priority
Shutter 1/60
Aperture 16.0
ISO 100
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm set at 40mm
Shooting Date/Time 5/26/2010 at 6:50pm

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The easiest way to crop is to set the dimensions in the options bar of the crop tool.

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May 10th, 2010 by admin

The presentation by Ed Miksch at the May 4 meeting was packed with pertinent information based on his extensive experience with computers. It was timely for those who are concerned about extra processing requirements for yet another Photoshop upgrade and a venture into HD movies with the new cameras.

Performance Laptops

Ed made the point that it is now possible to enjoy the portability of a laptop with the performance normally associated with the best desktop computers and at a reasonable price. He pointed out that laptops are now available with technology leading Intel i7 and i5 four-core processors and DDR3 memory chips. He also noted that a 64 bit computer and operating system that enables Photoshop to take advantage of large memory sizes above 3.5 gigabytes, is now available in laptops. He described an amazing Nvidia graphics card containing 12 processors and 1 gigabyte of video memory. He recommended external storage devices as the best way to cope with the large file sizes that come with high resolution cameras, HD movies, and bracketing for HDR and panoramas. Blu-ray devices with 25 gigabyte disc capacity are now becoming available for archiving. One very attractive bit of technology that is coming soon is USB 3.0 which will transfer files significantly faster than today’s USB 2.0 and Firewire technology. Two other factors to consider: laptops are not as expandable or repairable as desktop machines and often do not offer convenient connections for multiple printers and external hard drives. Our thanks to Ed for very professional presentation.