Here is a list of useful Links to websites associated with Photography

These are links used by current members and have been mentioned or demonstrated at Club Evenings. If you have any more that you think may be of interest please email - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Affiliations

L&CPU - Website

Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union

PAGB - Website

The Photographic Alliance of Great Britian


Printing

Sim Labs - Website

Upload your images and receive your A3 prints by return.

DSCL Colour Labs - Website

Look no further than DS Colour Labs for a professional photographic printing service. Whether you're a keen amateur or professional, DSCL in association with Fujifilm bring together the latest technology and know-how to give you the very best results, whether from digital or film.


Photo Editors

Photoshop Cloud; - Website

Get the most comprehensive photography solution at an incredible price. Photoshop CC and Lightroom are as essential to your photography as your camera and lens, giving you the tools to organize, edit, enhance, and share images on your desktop or mobile device — anytime, anywhere. Master new skills with an extensive library of how-to videos, and always have access to the latest imaging innovations from Adobe.

Serif Afinity; - Website

The Complete Photo Editor
Create photos like a professional with the easy to use tools and features in PhotoPlus X7. Remove all imperfections in a flash, add stunning artistic effects, enjoy amazing colour control, restore classic photos and much more in a powerful editing studio that’s perfect for professional photographers, enthusiasts and beginners alike. PhotoPlus X7 offers complete photo editing for one unbeatable price.

PaintShop Pro 2019 Ultimate; - Website

Imagine your best photo ever
Professional-quality photo editing
New Make it vanish with Magic Fill
Perfectly Clear smart photo correction technology
FaceFilter3 photo retouching and beautifying toolkit


Photoshop Add ins, Filters and scripts

Golden Section plugin; - Website

  • This plugin is set as a filter form the Filter menu. With it you can add a layer displaying the following:-
  • Draws the Fibonacci sequences: Golden Section, Golden Spiral and Golden Triangles.
  • Draws the two common harmonies: Rule of Thirds and Harmonic Triangles.
  • Freely adjust the rectangle to any size within the image boundaries.
  • Rotate or flip the divisions any way you like

This plugin is provided as a downloadable demo to try with a £61.12 price tag if you decide to buy.

Golden Crop Script - Website

Golden Crop is a script written in Java Script language using Adobe® Photoshop® object model. It was designed to help cropping pictures according to some composition rules. Besides that, you can rotate and extend canvas using (nearly) non-destructive methods.

Topaz Labs Remask AI - Website

Mask it from start to finish in a matter of minutes.
Creating complex selections by hand and perfecting them almost always takes way longer than expected. Meet Topaz Mask AI. Mask AI allows you to create tricky masks in record time thanks to our intuitive machine learning technology and trimap technique.
Less user input for an extremely high-quality mask has always been a photographer’s dream, and now you can have it with Mask AI.


Audio Visual

PTE AV Studio 10 - Website

Photo Slideshow Software. It is always a delight to share pictures and impressions with friends and relatives. But if you want to turn them into something special, consider creating a slideshow. Enhanced by music, animation (Pan/Zoom effects) and comments, it will ensure an absolutely fascinating experience for those who watch it. And PicturesToExe Deluxe provides the user with all the necessary tools to create a great-looking slideshow or documentary quickly and easily. Also PicturesToExe Deluxe allows create impressive wedding slideshows.

VideoStudio Ultimate 2020 - Website

Live Life. Make Movies.
VideoStudio takes ease of use and creativity one step further, with the addition of new smart movie tools, enhanced masking and color grading, and workflow improvements. Dive into new premium effects and edit 4K, HD, 360 video editing, with full the full suite of creative editing tools. Turn memories into movies with VideoStudio.

Beckham Digital - Website

This site has loads of Photoshop tutorials and Royalty Free music to download and try.

Incomputech - Website

This has hundreds of free tunes from seconds to hours for use in slideshows.


Image Stacking

This is the process of taking several images of the same subject and incrementally moving the depth of field for each shot. The selected images are then loaded into the software below and the in focus parts of each image are combined to produce an image that is crisp from front to back.

The paid for programs have a 30 day free trial period.

Zerene Stacker - Website

This is extremely good and easy to use. There is a cost of $89.00 USD but it is well worth it.

Helicon Focus - Website

This is a program that creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas. The program is designed for macro photography, microphotography and hyper focal landscape photography and solves the shallow depth-of-field problem. use. There is a cost to this program depending upon which version you purchase.


Others

The Photographer's Ephemeris - Website

The Photographer's Ephemeris (TPE) is a tool to help with the planning of all types of outdoor photography, but particularly landscape and urban scenes.
It is a map-centric sun and moon calculator: see how the light will fall on the land.

Ken Rockwell - Website

This photographer offers many insights into various aspects of photography and has a great many reviews of Cannon and Nikon cameras and lenses.