Club Meeting, Image Editing Evening - Tuesday 22nd April 2025.

         

On Tuesday 22nd April, Morpeth Camera Club met to view images which had been submitted in response to this season’s
Editing Challenge. Members had been invited to use their imagination and computer skills to edit up to five of the nine
images supplied.

Glyn Trueman, who led the evening, began by showing all nine of the original images first. These were a facial sculpture
of Medusa, a staircase rail, Bamburgh Castle, Angel of the North, three colourful glass bottles, flowers in a vase, the giant
spoon art installation at Cramlington, a boat on the Coquet estuary and stock car racing. Those who entered were invited
to describe what tools they had used in their editing. In this type of project, one can easily get carried away and forget
what has been done, which can make some of the images unique.

Medusa had been altered using filters, vignettes, with a smiley face using a liquefying tool, a molten gold effect, focal
zoom and abstract filters. The stair rail had been changed using four way flips, polar coordinates, had been stylised, with
3D cubic and cartoon effects were transformed into an advertising poster. Bamburgh Castle had been made more dynamic,
using linear gradient and poster edge filters, inverted colours, replaced skies and had silver effects applied.

The Angel of the North had been reworked using generative AI, a curved wing filter, and had been superimposed into the
Sycamore Gap. Glass bottles had been changed with neon glow and prism filters, stylised, doubly exposed, ten green bottles
against a wall background and a poster reminding folk that green bottles contained poison. With the flowers in a vase, edits
had been made to hide the background distractions, with the use of HDR, grain effect, comic book background, a ring of
Gerbera had been modified to create a greetings card.

The Spoon art installation had been stylised, doubly exposed and had a paint filter applied. The boat on the Coquet Estuary
had been enhanced by using paint and wallpaper filters, dehazed, and a soft watercolour effect. With the stock car racing
image, a sketch filter, motion blur, charcoal sketch, and neon blur filters had been introduced.

Some members included composite images which included two or more of the subjects, the most in evidence being a boat
in a bottle. Also included was the innovative Angel of the North with a Medusa head, staircase wings and a green bottle body.
Software used included Topaz Studio, Snap Seed Chrome, Prisma, Photoshop and GIMP and this project had given members
the chance to learn about and have fun with various features of their editing programmes.

With eighty-five images submitted, here is a small selection of work produced, with the original image followed by two edits;

     

     

     

     

     

     

                       

     

     

Glyn thanked the fifteen members who had submitted both basic and imaginative images. He had thoroughly enjoyed going
through the edited versions, which illustrated that the authors had ‘thought outside the box’. Club Chairman Peter Downs
thanked Glyn and everyone who had produced original and fun images, after which refreshments were served.

Steph.