Image Editing

Image Editing (Special Interest Group)

Photo Editing – "when you alter an image file in any way after it has come from your camera that either represents what you actually saw in the scene being photographed, or to achieve a final image that represents your own artistic intentions."

This special interest group addresses image editing, predominantly using Lightroom and the combination of Photoshop/Camera Raw/Bridge; but will also consider editing with Topaz Studio and Luminar AI. We will start with a Basic focus and migrate as the members gain additional editing skills.

During the beginning of the camera club year, we will consider the BASICs of Lightroom and Photoshop. As we progress through the year, we will examine more intermediate level aspects of editing. The meetings will have three portions:

A show and tell about how to accomplish specific elements of photo editing (initially through short demos done by the host(s) and as we progress through the year, via short demos conducted by members).
A Before and After showing of member images with discussion of how they achieved their finished result.
A My Picture Your Edit exercise in which we will look at how different members edited up to six images from a selected sample of member images.

It is expected that meetings will be conducted digitally via Zoom. To participate you will need a computer with a microphone and camera, or a smart tablet. You must pre-register to receive the link to the Zoom meetings.

Intention of the SIG Host
The order of topics and the schedule below must be regarded as tentative. What we do through the course of the year will depend on the interests and abilities of the SIG members. The order of topics may change but the scheduled dates will remain unchanged.

Video with overview of SIG: click here (members only)

For recordings of 2020-21 meetings: click here (members only)

Meetings: Sept 2021 to June 2022

We will meet the last Wednesday of each month (excluding December) at 7:00 p.m. Edmonton time. Meetings will last approximately 90 minutes. and will be conducted using Zoom.

September 29, 2021 - Basic Concepts – why edit your images, editing of JPGs vs RAW files, a quick look at the interface of each of the editing programs.
October 27, 2021 – Basic Workflow – temperature adjustments, recovering details in the highlights and shadows, setting white and black points, cropping images, correcting horizon line issues, saturation adjustments.
November 24, 2021 – Removing unwanted elements, patching image blemishes, adding contrast to an image, setting image size, noise reduction, sharpening, and printing.
December 29, 2021 – Possible Special Demo event
January 26, 2021 – Local adjustments, selection tools, layer masking, adjustment layers
February 23, 2022 – Conversion to Black and White, pre-sets, filters, special and artistic effects.
March 30, 2022 – Composite images, sky replacement, content aware fill.
April 27, 2022 – Colour management
May 25, 2022 – Profiles

To sign up for this SIG, click here.