David started the evening with a demonstration on how to use Elements to enhance your photos; this included cropping, lightening or darkening areas and how to deal with converging lines and wonky horizons.

Because of the varying degrees of Elements expertise in the room advice was given on shortcuts or other methods to try to achieve the same results.

After the break it was time to watch a tutorial all about using layers within Elements, this took you step by step and showed how to select and remove your image, how to turn your chosen image into a transparency and then to build layers, merge layers, add colours with gradients to backgrounds and even add shadows.

This DVD is well worth a look and I believe that David holds a copy for members to use in their own time.

Thanks David for a really informative evening.

Next weeks meeting is an open competition, the judge is still to be confirmed and we will welcome back members from the Little Baddow Camera Club who wish to see how the competition is run.

Some times when I try to log on the name and password boxes clear and then nothing happens, is anyone seeing this problem.

Thanks in advance

https://picasaweb.google.com/107127582052367984620/BarbaraSCupcakes?authkey=Gv1sRgCIrd6P-az_bAag#

thanks in advance Tracy

Photographer Robb Kendrick uses a 19th-century tintype process for his luminous portraits of modern-day cowboys in western U.S. and Mexico.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmXsgtdEwbI

Stevie