As the level of understanding of digital editing techniques varies enormously among members, we will aim to provide information to members at basic, intermediate and advanced levels in each meeting.

The focus is not on how to capture an image, but on what can be done with it in post-processing after downloading the images to your computer. Topics such as adjusting exposure and saturation, compositing, HDR and special effects will be just some of the areas covered. The digital editing techniques discussed will primarily be applicable to Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, however these techniques are generally transferable to many other digital editing programs.

Well the guys over at Adobe must have been enjoying their summer break because for a change there are no new features to report on.

That gives us an opportunity to revisit some of the basics in Lightroom and Photoshop. We will look at workflows that will help us edit new images, and also how new tools can breathe life into some older images.

In Photoshop, we will start with the basics – layers. This is the fundamental difference between PS and Lightroom. We will then go onto look at some ideas for portrait retouching. Finally, it time permits, we will have a look at how NIK can be used for colour grading.