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Photoshop Elements 6 and selecting
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Jun 2 2008, 9:19 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Mar 28 2008, 3:15 PM EDT
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Is anyone out there using Elements 6? It has a new feature that I am interested in evaluating for future purchase and since I cannot download a trial (I did it already months ago just for a day to help someone out.) I am hoping someone might have it on there notebook and could bring it to a session for a good look. Let me know if you have it or are interested. I would expect that PhotoshopCS etc. probably has all the same stuff but I am not interested in that kind of purchase so unless we know it is exactly the same it will not help me.
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RE: Photoshop Elements 6
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Jun 2 2008, 9:19 PM EDT
I just received a notice from Amazon.com that they are selling Photoshop Elements 6 for $49.99
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Elements and Actions.
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May 9 2008, 5:09 PM EDT by
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Thread started: May 9 2008, 5:09 PM EDT
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There are a few things that Photoshop does that Elements cannot do. Actions is not one of them. I have been playing with this today and thought I would mention a fun site for both Adobe Photoshop and Elements users. It is PanosFX.com. This site offers up both free and for purchase Actions for both programs. It gives an excellent explanation of how to install them and has a separate section just for us Photoshop Elements users. Check it out. I will try to post a few samples in the near future.
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Protect you Gear.
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May 9 2008, 4:36 PM EDT by
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Thread started: May 5 2008, 9:50 PM EDT
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How can you keep shooting in inclimate weather like rain or sandstorm? When I travel light, all I carry in my vest is a second lens, a couple batteries, an extra memory card, external flash and maybe a monopod. These items and my camera are well protected with an inexpensive poncho I picked up at Walmart. If the weather is not too bad, and would like to keep shooting, you can purchase a Camera Raincoat for around $20+ or more. However, here is what I use and it works well. Take a clear 1 gallon zip lock bag with you. Cut a hole in the bag slightly smaller than the end of your lens. Next, slide the camera into the bag stretching the hole over the end of the lens. It should stay fine but I secure it with a rubber band. You've just made an excellent Camera Raincoat for a fraction of the retail cost. Take a larger plastic bag with you if you need to protect more than just your camera.
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RE: Protect you Gear.
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May 9 2008, 4:36 PM EDT
Seems like a great idea Steve. I am wondering if an autofocus lens will be apt to wear out faster if it tries to operate by twisting the plastic bag ever so slightly and over a period of time. I suppose it would not likely be a problem if the bag is free to move with the lens. I am going to put a bag in my camera bag. I have shot in rain before and will again.
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Carabiners
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Mar 29 2008, 11:36 AM EDT by
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Folks who do a lot of mountaineering know about carabiners. If you go to your local hardware store, you'll probably see them. The difference between the ones you'd use in the mountains and the ones you'd use in photography are this. In photography, you're not trusting a carabiner to keep you from falling a thousand feet to your death. So, you don't need to spend as much in photography.
Why mention these? Well, they are just wonderful things to have handy as they clip things together quickly and securely. They come in different sizes. Most are about $1.00, so the expense is small. I usually have one or two for my camera bags. If nothing else, i have them on my keychain.
One day, I was videotaping a school committee meeting for my town. The tripod I was using wasn't the heaviest and most stable. It did have a nice loop for hanging something. I unclipped my carabiner from my keychain, hooked it into the tripod loop, and hung a sand bag there. The tripod became rock-solid.
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A place for computer technical discussion
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Things We Need to Talk About
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Mar 28 2008, 9:51 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Mar 28 2008, 9:51 PM EDT
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The one missing element of support for our Digital Photo group and the club in general is a place to get technical support for all the computer related junk that we aquire. Not only our computers but the external hard drives, slide scanners, speakers, projectors, etc. We do a good job when we need to by picking each others brains at meetings but we have nothing specifically dedicated to this topic that could easily be a club all by itself. Would anyone be interested in dedicated some of these threads to that purpose? If so let's talk about it and if we come up with some interest we could write up something for the web page or newsletter to let everyone else in on the idea and help them find this wiki.
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Garbage Bags
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Mar 28 2008, 6:46 PM EDT by
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One of the things that's usually always in my camera bag is a large garbage bag. It's great insurance if you get caught in a downpour. Just pull it out of whatever pouch it's rolled up in, and cover your equipment. The real reason I have one, though, isn't so much to protect the gear, but for me to lay upon should I have a need to get low to the ground and find myself on land that's less than clean and dry. One tip, though. If you take such a bag and set it down on a slope, the natural slipperiness of the plastic will make you travel downhill just as quickly as you sit down on it. So, in such a case, you want to tear the bag open making it into a mat. Lay on that and you won't slide.
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Apple Touch
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Mar 28 2008, 5:15 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Mar 23 2008, 9:25 AM EDT
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I recently purchased an Apple Touch. I do not consider it to be a photographer's tool or gadget but it does do some nice things for us if you own one. The display for a pocket device is crisp and fast. Looking at a photo on my Touch is more exciting than looking at many 4X6" prints. That is because it is bright and with a movement of fingers across the screen you can zoom in. Storage capacity is only 8 GB. You can buy them up to 32GB I believe but in the photo world that is not much. The only way right now to add or remove photos is to use a PC with Itunes software. This is not hard to do but it would be nice to have a flash drive of some sort built in so that images could be uploaded while in the field. The other most impressive aspect of this pocket device is that it is wifi and allows me to get on the Internet. It does this with ease using it's own Apple browser called Safari. Being a long time pc user it takes some getting use to using the "Apple way" to do things but it is a fun gadget to have.
If you were looking for a field device to transfer images from camera for viewing or just temporary storage, this is not it. If you want a quick and easy way to show someone some of your photos and to be able to check email or go online without lugging a notebook this might work for about $300. If you have other questions let me know.
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RE: Apple Touch
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Mar 28 2008, 5:15 PM EDT
From what I know about this product, it seems to learn your fingering preferences and anticipates word completions and character choices. I don't know how well it works but I do know that when I tried her phone, I had a few problems. I also had the sense that I'd learn the iPhone at about the same time the iPhone would learn me. Fortunately, after a few minutes, I handed it back. I didn't want to get hooked because I didn't want to shell out the cash for a new one. (Back then, it was a $600 toy.)
I don't know what the technology is that recognizes your finger tips. I'm guessing a stylus wouldn't work.
As with anything new, it takes time. Your body will adjust. What's new is that the iTouch is making adjustments too. Neat.
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How can we get more people signed up for this page?
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Mar 28 2008, 8:30 AM EDT by
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Thread started: Jul 21 2007, 10:00 AM EDT
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Maybe we should have a photo contest of some type with images posted on our new Wiki? What do you think?
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Mar 28 2008, 8:30 AM EDT
At last night's WPC Meetup, folks talked about Blogs and other Internet things and I brought up Wiki's. We thought that, at some future Meetup (at the Library), we'd do a demo about Wiki's and blogs and other such things. Perhaps, we need to do the same for 7HCC.
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Here is an idea for a future camera gadget
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Aug 9 2007, 7:35 PM EDT by
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How about building a gps feature into our cameras so when we shoot an image it records along with other information the gps location. Then back at our computer we could label one photo and future images would get tagged with that same information. For example, I took a photo out at Sturbridge village. The gps data is recorded. When I upload that image into Photoshop Elements the gps info gives the photo a Sturbridge Village tag as well as a date tag. Next time I am looking for the image I can pull up all images from that date as well as those taken at Sturbridge Village and my image will be among them. Once a gps location is given a tag and a certain radius we could expect all future images taken within that radius to be given the same tag automatically.
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I just added the logo to this page
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Adding a photo to a page?
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Jul 29 2007, 6:38 PM EDT by
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Dick had raised the question about how do we do this and this is not really what he asked because he wanted to add to a comment. I added it to a page, not just a comment. I am still trying to figure out if there is a way to add it to a comment.
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I'm on the wiki!
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Jul 22 2007, 8:27 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Jul 22 2007, 7:16 PM EDT
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Just thought I'd post something to try it. Hope these comments don't stay here forever.
See my web page at http://webpages.charter.net/grafix7 with some new stuff posted a few days ago.
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RE: I'm on the wiki!
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Jul 22 2007, 8:27 PM EDT
Actually you should be able to delete them anytime you want, I think.
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Wiki s are fun!
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Jul 22 2007, 7:19 PM EDT by
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Thread started: Jul 20 2007, 12:43 PM EDT
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I just created my own wiki with Wetpaint. It is called collectionsoflight.wetpaint.com. There are just a few links there now and it just adds to my list of places to display my images opinions and links. However this has one major difference. You can easily participate in that with me. So regarding our Digital group wiki, (This one) I encourage everyone to seriously consider how this can help us and our interests. Then spell it out with your comments. Finally come back and participate and our conversations will make our photo experiences all the richer.
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RE: Wiki s are fun!
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Jul 22 2007, 7:19 PM EDT
It would be more fun if I could think of something more important to say. I just want to post a comment just to see how it is done. Is there a way to make your link to your web page a hyperlink?
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Sell, swap or give away
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Jul 22 2007, 9:27 AM EDT by
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Thread started: Jul 22 2007, 9:27 AM EDT
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How about starting a page at our Wiki of things people want to sell, swap or give away?
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