Our great friend Leslie Cutting visited us again tonight to give us some more Adobe Photoshop tuition. Leslie uses Elements 12 which is usually considered the best editing programme for photographers. Photoshop CC is a more comprehensive alternative. but it now requires a monthly subscription of nearly £9, and is not available unless you have had CS 6 or maybe some earlier versions of CS. I do not believe that it gives photographers very much more than Elements anyway.
Enough of my drivel. Leslie spent the evening explaining Layers, starting off with a very simple set up to show everyone how they worked. Peter P sat about a metre away from Leslie and showered her with questions the whole evening, and as I reminded him, I first met Peter at Rydon School about 20 years ago where Leslie was teaching us both photoshop. Never mind Peter, I suffer from the same problem remembering stuff due to extreme old age!!
Having shown us the basics, Leslie moved on to show us adjustment layers, layer masking, blending, blurring images, all using layers, and some of the new tools such as "refine edges". I am not going to repeat all she said, even if I could, because if you were interested, you would have been there!
Finally, Leslie showed us Picasa, which she rates highly as a place to store your images and get to them quickly.
Her teaching is done in a relaxed and skilful way and she is a pleasure to listen to, so I am quite sure that we all learned some useful stuff.
I cannot close without mentioning my mate Paul who ran the evening, as both the Chairman and her Vice were both missing! It is a huge shame that he did not take on the Chair because he is so entertaining and gets people up and running in his own unique way.
Well done Leslie and Paul and thank you both.