Principles of Processing your RAW images
Four presentations in one night - wow!
Statistics
Thank you to everyone that responded to the clubs 1st survey. In fact 76% of club members took the time to complete the survey which is fantastic. In summary:
Lightroom is the Primary editing tool with 61% of members using Photoshop as the secondary
Those member who used Photoshop as the primary application 70% used Nik Collection.
And, 25% only use one editing software, that being Lightroom.
Thank you Gavin for pulling this together. Full details of the result can be found here.
Lightroom
A RAW image is an unprocessed photograph captured with a digital camera. It contains the raw image data captured by the camera's sensor and saved in proprietary file format specific to the camera manufacturer. Therefore every image needs to be processed!
Michael has put together a simple two pager on the process. These are the basic steps that should be applied to almost all images. The quick development guide can be found here and apparently, you should be able to apply them in 60 seconds!
Photoshop
Jim kicked off his presentation with a simple question
Photoshop - to need or not to need, that is the question.
The simple answer is - maybe, and if there is one person in the club that knows Photoshop well it is Jim.
Jim is a big fan of Julieanne Kost an Adobe Ambassador, she provides indepth tutorials, training, techniques, and shortcuts for working with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. The best thing is it’s all FREE. Below are two links to get you started.
A copy of Jim’s notes can be found here and the presentation here.
Topaz
The members survey showed that there are a number of people in the club using other editing tools such as Topaz. The good news is Brian, a fellow club member, is a fan of the software and took us through the basics of the application LIVE.
For more information on the software please visit their website.
If you trial the software and would like to purchase it there is a club discount which we will share via email to all members. This was the 1st time Brian presented at the club and we thank him for his time and effort in preparing for the session.