ETOBICOKE CAMERA CLUB - Digital Imaging

ECC now fully integrates digital imaging into all its competitions and its programming.  The club has it's own up to date laptop and digital projector.  While our programs help people along the digital learning curve, the primary focus still remains on the image, whether slides, digital, or prints.

Calibration Images:  The following image was used in the calibration of the club laptop/digital projector.  If this image looks the same on your monitor as it does when projected at the club, then you can feel reasonably comfortable that your images will look OK at the club.  Images vary considerably depending upon which viewer you use.  All competition images will be shown at the club using ProShow Gold (from Photodex.com).  Any Adobe imaging product (Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements) will produce similar looking images.

MSCL Calibration tiff (large file 14 MB)  - with Windows, right click on this link and select "Save Target As ..." to save the image where you want it on your computer

MSCL Calibration jpg (small file 2 MB)  - with Windows, right click on this link and select "Save Target As ..." to save the image where you want it on your computer

Digital tutorials and workflows:

• Resizing Images Tutorial (pdf)

• Cropping Images Tutorial (pdf)

• Workflow for Using Pro Show Gold to Judge Digital Images (pdf)

• Workflow for Using Picasa to Prepare and Submit Images for ECC Competitions (pdf) 2.3MB

Links to tutorials for Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, and ProShow Gold

• Link to several training videos for ProShow Gold  www.photodex.com/training 

• list of tool short cuts and names in Photoshop http://hongkiat.com/blog/keyboard-shortcut-for-photoshop-cs2-toolsbox/

• link to a pdf downloadable "cheat sheet" of all of the short cut keys for Photoshop  http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/photoshop_cs2_cheatsheet.html

• Other Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom links:

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/digital-darkroom.htm

http://user.fundy.net/morris/?photoshop15.shtml

http://www.bairarteditions.com/pages/tutorials/photoshop/laymasks.html

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-retouching/contrast-layers.html

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/tutorials/index.html

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials.html

 

Digital Entry Forms:

• ECC Competition Entry Forms (pdf) - Two copies of the entry form only one of which needs to be filled in for each competition.

• ECC Competition Entry Forms - Digital (doc) - Word Document that can be filled out electronically and saved with a new file name for electronic submission.