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Making a book with Lightroom 4
Easter has come and just about gone…and the family have returned home…so I must get back to some pressing tasks. The first job to finish is the uploading of a new 100 page book to Blurb…to commemorate my grand-daughter’s first birthday. I’ve done Blurb books before. Originally I used their downloadable and free to use “Booksmart” software…probably the easiest way for a first-time self-publisher to get started. All you need is a computer, the free software and some jpg photos and away you go. My second book was done by creating my own layouts in In-Design, editing the pictures in Photohop and then uploading a pdf to Blurb. I converted…
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RPS Region Events February Tour
Really pleased to be delivering a five day lecture tour for the Royal Photographic Society up in the North East in February 2013. See RPS Region Events: February 2013 Itinerary
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Building an Image – Northern Lights Deconstructed
When I’m doing a lecture, people often ask about how to do a particular technique. I don’t consider myself to be a Photoshop expert, so I usually give a name to the process, e.g. “layer mask” and suggest they put that term into Google and come up with a tutorial somebody has done on that process! There are some great tutorials out there to help you get started. So, for my Christmas Greeting this year I have built a Northern Lights e-card, based on a web tutorial at this link, though I didn’t quite follow the process in the tutorial, preferring to use the techniques I generally work with. I…
