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Sioux Scope A Newsletter for the Sioux City Camera Club September 2020 What’s in this issue! • SCCC First Meeting Set Pg. 1 • How to Create a Watercolor Effect Pg. 2-6 • Michael Greiner Wins H.M. Pg. 6 • More Picnic Photos P g. 7 The City Camera Club will hold its first meet- ing of the 2020-2021photography season on Sep- tember 10th. The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Sioux City Art Center. Masks and social distancing will be required. Interested photographers and the public are invit- ed to attend. The Camera Club routinely meets on the second and last Thursday’s of each month. Now that our camera club season is upon us please don’t forget to renew your membership. Membership fees are due and payable in September and become delinquent on Decem- ber 1st. For your convenience and due to the current pandemic you are encouraged to join or renew online at https://www.siouxcitycamera- club.com/membership-application SCCC First Meeting Set for September 10th “Summer Pictures” Send your digital entry to [email protected]. Include “View & Review in subject line. Deadline for entry is September 9th. View & Review “Summer . .” 2020-21 Assignments September 10 Program Michael Greiner September 24 Digital Judge Carl Hardy Submission is by 5 p.m. Saturday, Septem- bere 12 for Digital Images. Send all digital submissions to [email protected] for both color and black & white submissions. The subject line should clearly state: SCCC Digital Entries for September. The topic of the educational program for our September 10th meeting will be Focus Stacking. Camera Club photographer of the year Michael Greiner will show the focusing technique that cre- ates sharp layers throughout a macro image. Greiner Program Focus -- Macro Focusing Technique SCCC members at club picnic recently.
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Sioux ScopeA Newsletter for the Sioux City Camera Club
September 2020
What’s in this issue!• SCCC First Meeting Set Pg. 1• How to Create a Watercolor Effect Pg. 2-6• Michael Greiner Wins H.M. Pg. 6• More Picnic Photos P g. 7
The City Camera Club will hold its fi rst meet-ing of the 2020-2021photography season on Sep-tember 10th. The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Sioux City Art Center.
Masks and social distancing will be required. Interested photographers and the public are invit-ed to attend. The Camera Club routinely meets on the second and last Thursday’s of each month.
Now that our camera club season is upon us please don’t forget to renew your membership.
Membership fees are due and payable in September and become delinquent on Decem-ber 1st. For your convenience and due to the current pandemic you are encouraged to join or renew online at https://www.siouxcitycamera-club.com/membership-application
SCCC First Meeting Set for September 10th “Summer Pictures” Send your digital entry to
[email protected]. Include “View & Review in subject line.
Deadline for entry is September 9th.
View & Review “Summer . .”
2020-21 AssignmentsSeptember 10 Program Michael Greiner September 24 Digital Judge Carl Hardy Submission is by 5 p.m. Saturday, Septem-bere 12 for Digital Images. Send all digital submissions to [email protected] for both color and black & white submissions. The subject line should clearly state: SCCC Digital Entries for September.
The topic of the educational program for our September 10th meeting will be Focus Stacking. Camera Club photographer of the year Michael Greiner will show the focusing technique that cre-ates sharp layers throughout a macro image.
Greiner Program Focus --Macro Focusing Technique
SCCC members at club picnic recently.
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Sioux City Camera ClubThe Sioux City Camera Club is a member of the North Central Camera Club Council (N4C) and the Photographic Society of Amer-ica (PSA). See our website @ http://www.siouxcitycameraclub.com for meeting infor-mation. Club Leadership 2020-21Tom Schoening – PresidentMitch Keller--Vice PresidentDoug Conrad-- Secretary/TreasurerMichael Greiner -- Director at LargeKevin Smith-- Past PresidentCarl Hardy --N4C Contact Carl Hardy -- Newsletter Editor Doug Conrad -- Webmaster
September 2020
Watercolour paintings are a hugely popular art style that can be incorporated into your de-sign projects, but you don’t need to be a master artist to create such imagery when Adobe Pho-toshop can produce realistic watercolour effects with a cocktail of built-in fi lters. In today’s tutori-al I take you through a range of settings that will convert any photograph into a hand-made water-colour style painting.
The effect we’ll be producing in this tutorial mimics the aesthetics of a hand painted picture using watercolour paints. A range of Photoshop fi lters will produce the foundations of the effect, then the addition of a paper texture and defor-mation with watercolour Photoshop brushes add an extra level of realism to produce a convincing effect.
Open your chosen image in Adobe Photoshop. I’m using this photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge by Patrick Tomasso from Unsplash.com. Right click on the background image layer and select Convert to Smart Object.
How to Create a WatercolorPainting Effect in Photoshop
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Head to the Filter menu and select Filter Gal-lery. Navigate to the Artistic category and select Dry Brush, then change the settings to 10 Brush Size, 10 Brush Detail and 1 Texture. Click OK to apply the effect.
Select the Filter Gallery menu option again, making sure not to choose the option at the top, which would reapply the same effect. This time select the Cutout fi lter and confi gure the settings to 5 Number of Levels, 4 Edge Simplicity and 1 Edge Fidelity.
In the Layers panel, double click the tiny settings icon next to the top Filter Gallery entry. Change the blending mode to Pin Light.
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Click the Filter menu again, this time go to Blur > Smart Blur. Enter the settings of 5 Radius, 100 Threshold and change the Quality to High.
Head to Filter > Stylize > Find Edges. Edit the Blending Options and change the blending mode to Multiply to render this layer’s background transparent, this will leave just the details of the fi nd edges effect to represent pencil sketch lines.
Double click the settings icon and change the blending mode of the Smart Blur effect to Screen and reduce the opacity to 50%.
Find a free paper texture, such as this Ivory Off White Paper Texture. Copy and Paste the tex-ture into the Photoshop document and scale it to size to fi t over the canvas. Change the blending mode to Multiply.
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Download and install this free set of Watercol-or Photoshop Brushes. Add a Layer Mask to the Background layer, then use the ALT+Backspace shortcut to fi ll the mask with black, which will effectively erase the entire photograph. Select the Brush tool and choose one of the watercolour brushes.
Switch the foreground colour to white in the toolbar, then use the square bracket keys to ad-just the size of the brush. Click around the canvas to restore the photograph with watercolour style bleeding around the edges.
After a few clicks, change the brush to an al-ternative watercolour option and continue restor-ing the image with a range of watercolour tones to avoid repetition.
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Since all the effects have been set up as part of a Smart Object, then watercolour painting effect can be applied to an alternative photograph by editing the contents of the Smart Object layer. Double click the Smart Object layer’s thumbnail to open the .PSB fi le. Paste in a different image then save and close the fi le. Return to the main document to fi nd all the effects have been instant-ly applied to the new picture.
Michael Greinere won an Honorable Men-tion at this years Mighty Mo Photo Contest put on by the Yankton Area Arts, yaa. There is 1st place, HM and People's Choice that is given at the end of the show on August 31, 2020. Show runs through 8/28/2020 at the he yaa G.A.R. Hall Art Gallery in Yankton SD.
Beauty and the Beast. By Michael Greiner
Michael Greiner Wins H.M. at Mighty Mo Photo Contest
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SCCC members at club picnic recently.
