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Mount board update

Paper Spectrum Recently I have been buying my own mounts from Paper Spectrum, who do Pinnacle mounts in packs of 10 at the standard competitions size of 400x500mm, with or without aperture. They supply the most popular colours and also packs of grey board for backing the mounts. http://www.paperspectrum.co.uk/ecom-catshow/pre-cut-photo-mount-mounting-board-500×400-20×16.html Wessex Pictures If you want to…
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Colour Managed Workflow – a Primer
These tutorials are aimed at beginners in making prints. First Steps: Calibrate your monitor – if your monitor is not correct, your prints will probably not be the right colour and your projected images will also not look correct. The club has a Spyder calibrator which you can borrow – speak to the Treasurer. Basically…
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How Your Camera Sensor Works
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Camera RAW User Guide
A useful downloadable document on Adobe Camera Raw
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Monitor Calibration
Monitor calibration is a big subject, but getting to grips with this is vital to achieving good projected images and commercial prints. (I have left out doing your own prints here as you can always manually adjust your printer driver settings to achieve a good print). Once you think that your setting are correct, you…
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How to Cheat in Photoshop CS5: The Art of Creating Realistic Photomontages by Steve Caplin
I’m often asked for tips on what book to buy to learn photomontage in Photoshop, so I bought this book from Amazon to have something to dip into on a long weekend away, to see if it would be a suitable recommendation. This is a great book and I ended up reading the whole book from…

