Downloads

Click on the links below to download the files

This season's programme:  2022/23 Programme (pdf)

Tutorials/Guidance/Files
  1. Competition Secretary, Paul Robert'c crib sheet to using PhotoEntry for entering our club competitions.
  2. Wolverhampton Photographic Society's  guide to Preparing Photographs for Projected Digital Image Competitions  - Very comprehensive guide for Lightroom, Photoshop & Affinity Pro (the final section on submitting PDI's is specific to their club)
  3. A copy of Tom Dodd’s procedure for monochrome conversion of images
  4. A pdf version of the slide show from the Smart Photography Member’s evening on the 14th of October 2016 including links to the various apps mentioned
  5. Lightroom Export preset to resize images to the club’s NEW PDI resolution of 1600 pixels wide by 1200 pixels high. Save on your computer then in Lightroom’s​ Develop module click on Export…,right click on User Presets, then click Import…and navigate to the file and click OK.
  6. 4 Photoshop actions for re-sizing images to the club’s NEW PDI resolution of 1600 pixels wide by 1200 pixels high, with and without adding a coloured outline (stroke). Double click on the downloaded file and they should be available in the BMBCC 1600 x 1200 folder in the Actions Panel in Photoshop.  
  7. 4 Photoshop Elements actions for re-sizing images to the club’s NEW PDI resolution of 1600 pixels wide by 1200 pixels high, with and without adding a coloured outline (stroke). Double click on the downloaded file and they should be available in the BMBCC 1600 x 1200 folder in the Actions Player (Edit, Guided Mode).
  8. Rolf Kraehenbuehl’s notes on using on-line print houses and pre cut mounts.
  9. Matworks - Mount cutting measurement software (runs on latest versions of Windiows (Inc. 10) ignore error messages
  10. The following videos were created to help with preparing PDI images to the club's old PDI resolution (1400 x 1050) but should still be relevant if the sizes are changed to 1600 pixels wide x 1200 pixels high:
  1. A Guide to the major Photographic Distinctions (pdf)
  2. Notes from Susan Clark’s ''Hints, Tips and Quick Fixes in Photoshop'  talk 17th January 2014 (0.3Mb pdf)
  3. Notes from Simon Cotter’s Print Mounting demonstration from the Mini Workshop’s evening 10th January 2014 (0.5Mb pdf)
  4. Terry Hewitt’s Talk “Where’s that ****** Photograph” on Digital Asset Management - January 2014 (9.7Mb pdf)
  5. John Gorham’s presentation on Close-up and Macro photography - October 2013 (3.8Mb pdf)
  6. L&CPU 2012 Guidelines for preparing Digital Images for competitions (pdf)
  7. David Flitcroft’s guide to Preparing Digital Images for competitions (pdf)
  8. Simon Cotter’s guide to Layers and Layer Masks (pdf)
  9. ​BMBCC Constitution 2018
  10. BMBCC Rules for Safeguarding Club Funds
  11. BMBCC ​Privacy Notice​​

Here are some reference documents and actions that can be downloaded following Terry Wagg's photoshop talk on 5 October 2018.
The actions are for use in Photoshop CC, but may work in other versions. Once the action has been downloaded, all you need to do is double click on the action and they will automatically load into Photoshop.
The Power Of Photoshop (pdf)
Mono Conversion (action)
​Dodge and Burn (action)
​Understanding Sharpening (pdf)
​Converting For The Web (action)