The FPC sponsored digital study group meets Wed. 2/2/2011 in the cafeteria of the Mapleton Center.

February 10, 2011 Program: From Photo to Graphic Art, by Lesa Snider. In this presentation you’ll learn how to create beautiful partial color effects, darkened edge vignettes, and more using Photoshop. You’ll also learn how to push a photo through literally anything (including text), as well as how to use CS5’s new Refine Edge enhancements to create interesting photo edges. Lesa presented a more detailed version of this at Photoshop World and will describe her techniques with examples of her work. Lesa is the author of Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual. She is the creator of several videos on the use of Photoshop, and offers seminars sponsored in part by Mike’s Camera which will be presented in Denver and Boulder in late January and February 2011. Here is a link – Lesa is giving the first 4 seminars on this list http://www.mikescamera.com/classesseminarsandworkshops.html

The next digital study group meets 1/5/2011 in the cafeteria at Mapleton Center at 7 PM.

The January meeting is Thursday Jan. 13, 2011 at the Mapleton Center, starting at 7:00 PM.

The special topic is:” Taken with my mobile phone”

Russ Croop will present images made with the iPhone – photographic, creatively enhanced, and fully created on the iPhone using special software (iPhone Apps) and describe how they were made. Russ is a well known photographic and iPhone artist. He is a retired high school english and photography teacher. He has been a member of Flatirons Photo Club and was one of the year end competition judges in 2009. To view some of his images and get an idea of the types of images that can be made using the iPhone visit his web gallery at: http://web.mac.com/rcroop/http%3A/Welcome_to_Russ_Croop_Photography.html. Once there you can click on iPhone Photos, Photo Art, and iPhone Paintings (or any of his other galleries).