Photography Market, Camberwell
for all those people that have money burning a hole in their pocket here’s a nice event for you
Photography Market Camberwell.
Date: Sunday October 12, 2008 8:00am – 1:00pm
Cost: $5
Where: 340 CAMBERWELL ROAD, CAMBERWELL
download the pdf here
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How to Resize and Save Images in Photoshop for Projected Image Competitions
This is one technique for resizing your photos for projected image competitions under the VAPS / Corio Bay Camera Club Rules .
1. After you have made all your adjustments, added borders etc. and you are happy with your image, in Photoshop go to Image -> Image size. The Image size option box will appear.
Photoshop Image Size Dialog Box
2. Ensure the “Resample Image” and “Constrain Proportions” check boxes are ticked
3. Remember that your images must not be more than 1024 pixels wide or 768 pixels high. If your image is in “Landscape” mode, set the width in the “Pixel Dimensions” box to 1024. If it is in “Portrait” mode, set the height to 768. This will change the height or width (depending on which mode you are working in) to maintain the aspect ratio.
4. If you are working in “Landscape” mode, and the new image height is less than 768 pixels you don’t need to do anything else. If it is more than 768, change the height to 768 and let Photoshop set the width. (If you are working in “Portrait” mode the width will always be well below the maximum width)
5. Click O.K.
6. Go to File -> Save As
Important: don’t just go to “Save” because you will overwrite your original high resolution image and you won’t be able to get it back
7. Name your file according to the file format for club competitions.
8. In the Format box make sure the format is JPEG. If not, select JPEG from the drop down list.
9. Chose the Folder you want to save the file into (I use a special “Competition Entries” folder) and click Save.
10. In the In the JPEG Quality Options box which appears, move the slider until the number on the right is around (but no more than) 500kb.
Adobe Photoshop JPEG Options
11. Click O.K.
Congratulations, your photo is now the correct size and ready to submit.
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How to add a border in Adobe Photoshop
One thing a lot of people like to do is to add borders to there images using Photoshop so they can enter them in monthly projected image competitions. This does not always help your images and is by no means mandatory. But can help some images. One thing to always remember is that your border is counted as part of the image max width and height. So you image including border must be less than 1024px wide and 768 heigh.
1) Open you image in photoshop and go to the menu Image – Canvas Size
Photoshop Canvas Size Dialog Box
2) Fist thing I do is select pixels as my unit of measurement. You can use CM or what ever you are conformable in. But don’t use % as it mucks things up a bit. Read more >>
New Adobe CS4 – Online photoshop shows
Thats right CS4 is coming out and you can be one of the first people to see it! http://adobe.istreamplanet.com/
Not that you probably couldnt see it some time after this… but sometimes its just nice to be first! While im here I thought I might also share two really great links for people with nothing better to do with you internet connection than watch online videos then head over to both
The Big Picture Photography Blog
Congratulations to everyone in lasts nights inter club competition with Geelong. There was a great standard of photographs. Well done. Was good just to see them. I will have the results up here as soon as Tim emails them to me.
I just wanted to share a really great link with the members. Its called the big picture. They post a set of images every 3 or so days some of which are really just amazing. So make sure you actually click on the titles of the sets to see the whole set not just the single image shown on the font page. For me the great thing about them is that they tell a story.
An image from the photo blog the big picture