Lightroom and Sandstone festival

Thanks to the 17 people who made it to our Lightroom training session last week! It was really great to see so much interest in the program. This month we are heading out for a photographic experience!
The little (very little but beautiful) town, Paul Roux, is having its Sandstone Festival - And as a User Group, we will be there! It all happens on the weekend of 12 and 13 September. We will be having a photowalk from 08:00 to 09:30 in the morning and anyone is welcome - (there is no cost, but walkers will have to pay the entrance fee to the festival).
You will also notice that there is a photo competition with the theme "sandstone" (sandsteen). Any picture with the theme can be entered (visit the homepage at http://www.sandsteenfees.co.za)
At the end of the month, we will be running a digital scrapbooking session, so keep watching this space.

Lightroom Tonight

The Bloem Adobe User Group will be convening tonight (26/8/2008) at the Centre for E-Learning on the campus of the CUT to discuss Adobe Lightroom2.0 enhancements - we will be working from 18:00 to 19:30 - where we will share some of the new aspects that makes Lightroom probably the greatest tool photographers have ever had!

Remember to look at the GREAT shots we took during Scott Kelby's Photowalk at:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/scott-kelbys-worldwide-photowalk-bloemfontein/

Scott Kelby Photowalk

What a privilege it was to participate in Scott Kelby's world wide photowalk!
Hosted by the BloemAdobe User Group, we had 29 photographers who really had a fun day taking pictures and socializing!
I share some of the pictures of the group in action!
To share in the fun visit...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/scott-kelbys-worldwide-photowalk-bloemfontein/

Also remember that our next meeting will be 18:00 to 20:00 on Tuesday 26 August -
- it's all about Lightroom 2!! Don't miss it!

Show me yours and I'll show you mine!

Brand's creative bunch

Photowalk in Bloemfontein

As part of the launch of Scott Kelby's Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers, he has arranged a "world wide Photowalk".

The Bloemfontein Adobe User Group will be participating in Bloemfontein - and it's going to be fun!

We will be starting at 08:00 in front of the main building at Grey College, and we will finish at Traumerai on the UFS campus! (10:00 ish)

Bring your camera and feel free to join!!

Several prizes to be won!

For more information, visit -

http://www.photoshopuser.com/photowalk/city/bloemfontein.html

June Makeover

Due to several requests for more information on Photoshop, I have updated this blog with some links which I think you may find valuable.

On a more personal note, I have also updated my site at http://www.pixelpostcards.com, so feel free to pay a visit!

Lightroom 2.0 and Express

During our last meeting we spoke about Lightroom 2.0 and Photoshop Express.

It is clear that Lightroom is becoming an essential part of the photographer's toolkit and Igno mentioned that one of the better sites to visit for Lightroom training was Julianne Kost's website.



To demonstrate the power of Photoshop Express, Igno showed how the pictures he had taken of steamtrains a few weeks before could be uploaded to Express.

For those of you who still care about steam engines, please join http://www.steam-in-action.com
Show that you care!

The example of the steamtrains can be viewed at :
http://igno.photoshop.com/?trackingid=BTAGC&wf=share&galleryid=5bcf94f63b68429dabdd2411bb61d5ff

Photosafari feedback and some links

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The Photosafari was wonderful and I have asked some of the guys for their pics. Here is one of Charles'. One of these shots won him a gold award at the camera club last night.

I have found some great links. Have a look at:

http://www.daveblackphotography.com/

Well, chat later!