We are looking forward to seeing you all next Wednesday, January 16, at 7:30 p.m., at our Photoshop/Elements meeting.  Even though some of you are coming to learn and some to share what you know, we’re all going to learn from this, and we’ll all contribute to the teaching as well with pertinent questions and the answers they stimulate.

We’ll begin with calibrating color — as John so rightly points out, unless you have the color right, all else is for naught.  John will show you his way, and I’ll show you mine.  And this will illustrate the first thing we have to tell you about Photoshop:  anything you want to do has two or more "correct" ways to do it!  This will become more apparent as the evening goes on.

Next we’ll get into Layers, the main subject of the evening, and the center and basis of almost everything you do in Photoshop or Elements.  We’ll start with the operations which deal with the entire photo — things like color correction, lightening and darkening, contrast, brightness, etc. — and then we’ll move into fine-tuning.  John has a super workflow he’ll share with you.

To those of you who have agreed to help demonstrate, bring along a CD or USB flash drive with photos you would like to use in your demonstration.  It will speed things up if you have material you are familiar with to work on.  If you can’t do this, we’ll have an assortment of what we hope will be suitable photos.  And thanks for your help.

Note:   A PC Laptop with Photoshop CS will be available for utilization for your demonstration.  If you use a later version of Photoshop, you must save the file in a version of .psd that will be compatible with older Photoshop versions for your file to work.