Club Resources
Resources available of general interest for the photographer.
Club Documents
Social
Join the Essendon Camera Club flickr group. Public viewable but invite only to participate. Please use a web browser when requesting to join as the Flickr app doesn’t seem to be able to initiate the request.
Facebook Members Only Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/essendoncameraclub… To join this Members Only group, email webmaster@essendoncameraclub.org.au with the email address you associate with Facebook.
Please note, if you cease to be a Financial Member of the ECC, your access to this group will be removed. Want to know more about joining Facebook, read our handy guide.
Club Discounts
Prism Imaging: Receive a 20% discount on prints when you mention that you are a member of the Essendon Camera Club.
Film Never Die: Receive a 15% discount on various services when you mention that you are a member of the Essendon Camera Club.
LinkedIn Learning with Lynda
LinkedIn Learning® Courses: Gain Access To Up-To-Date Content & Expert-Led Courses, On-Demand On Both Desktop & Mobile. Get 24/7, Unlimited Access To Over 16,000 Business, Design & Tech Online. You can maybe get it for FREE when you join your local library. Library Access Link.
Some Great Content Channels on YouTube
ArtIsRight: A professional photographer & video creative. He is an educator, technologist, consultant, color management expert, and network engineer.
PiXimperfect: hosted by Unmesh Dinda, is a free resource for learning Photoshop and Lightroom.
DPReview TV | Tony & Chelsea Northrup | Jared Polin | KaiW | TheCameraStoreTV | Lok Cheung | Mark Galer | Matt Irwin | Steve Perry | Ricci Talks | Nigel Danson | Morten Hilmer
Alternative to Adobe
Sick of paying monthly? I Tested the Best Lightroom Alternatives 2025 (Free or Cheap Apps)
PAID — Apple Pixelmator Pro | Apple Photomator Pro | Capture One Pro | ONI Photo RAW | Skylum Luminar Neo | DxO PhotoLab | Affinity Photo
FREE — Apple Photos | RawTherapee | Darktable | PhotoScape X | Photo Pea
Download Adobe Bridge for Free | Adobe Bridge is a powerful creative asset manager that lets you preview, organise, edit and publish multiple creative assets quickly and easily.
Displays
Pantone Validated – An Inside Look
Pantone Validated Devices for Designers | Look for the Pantone SkinTone Validated mark of assurance that your display or printer is truly representing the vast spectrum of diverse human skin tones. Products that carry this mark have been tested for simulation of Pantone’s scientifically developed Pantone SkinTone Guide, which is based on thousands of human skin measurements spanning ethnicities and ages.
Calibrators
Adobe – How to Calibrate Your Monitor | Calibrate your monitor’s colour settings properly to give your images the best possible colour. Learn how to get started and how often you should calibrate.
CALIBRITE | WHY YOU NEED TO CALIBRATE
Calibration Products – Solutions For Photographers
DATACOLOR | SpyderXElite | SpyderXPro
CALIBRITE | Display Plus HL | Display Pro HL | Display SL | What’s the difference
Legacy: ColorChecker Display Plus (X-Rite i1 Display Pro)
BenQ SW321C 32″ 4K Adobe RGB IPS LED Monitor
HOW TO CALIBRATE your BENQ Display for PHOTOGRAPHY and PRINTING
Printing
Print size @ 300dpi, how many megapixels/resolution do i need?
Printing and Scanning Resolution DPI Calculator (PPI)
Image Resize, Cropping, Resampling, Scaling, and Aspect Ratio for Printing
Prism Printing: 20% off any Printing ordered when you mention you are from Essendon Camera Club when placing order. Pricelist
Group A paper is the cheapest | Fine Art paper.
PRISM IMAGING – NORTH MELBOURNE | 504 Abbotsford st, North Melbourne VIC 3051
PRISM IMAGING – MOONEE PONDS | 141 Puckle St, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039
Megapixels print size chart
Different megapixel values have different width and height values, so the print size chart also varies. Here is a photo print size chart that can help you determine the right printing size depending on image quality:
Printed Area Size 300dpi Megapixels
6 x 4in (152.4 x 101.6mm) 1800×1200 2.160
5 x 7in (127 x 177.8mm) 1500 x 2100 3.150
6 x 8in (152.4 x 203.2mm) 1800×2400 4.320
8 x 10in (203.2 x 254mm) 2400 x 3000 7.200
8.5 x 11in (215.9 x 279.4mm) 3400 x 4400 8.415
12 x 18in (609 x 304.8mm) 3600 x 5400 19.440
16 x 20in (406.4 x 508mm) 4800×6000 28.800
18 x 24in (457.2 x 609.6mm) 5400 x 7200 38.880
24 x 36in (609.6 x 914.4mm) 7200 x 10800 77.760
Import your photos | for editing, organizing, and sharing.
Move photos to NAS | for editing, organizing, and sharing.
Crop and straighten your photos | Straighten tilted photos and crop them to specific sizes.
Make selective edits | Remove lens distortion, set a custom white balance, and fine-tune focal points to make a spur-of-the-moment photo look perfect.
Enhance your photo with a vignette | Make the subject of your photo the focal point.
Fix an overexposed photo | Reveal the hidden details.
Remove haze in a photo | Dehaze slider.
Reduce noise in night photos | Noise Reduction and Sharpening.
Edit a series of photos | Easily replicate your edits across a series of shots.
Fix an overexposed photo | Reveal the hidden details in your photos using the Basic sliders in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic.
Lightroom Classic interface and workflow | See how to use the Adobe Lightroom Classic interface and learn what you can do with your photos in the different modules.
Lightroom Classic Courses
Lightroom Classic Tutorial for Beginners | FREE COURSE | 1 Introduction | 2 Why Adobe Lightroom? | 3 Set Up Adobe Lightroom | 4 Review and Sort | 5 Global Corrections | 6 Creative Color | 7 Refinements | 8 Craft Your Look | 9 Output | 10 Conclusion.
Learn Lightroom Classic in ONE VIDEO (This is literally everything) | If you’re looking for a 100% free, complete course on Lightroom classic that walks you through Lightroom from start to finish – This video tutorial gives you everything you need to know.
Crop and straighten an image | Crop an image and straighten it with the Crop tool.
Change the image size | resize an image, crop and straighten.
Adjust color vibrance in a photo | Apply a Vibrance adjustment to make colors pop.
Learn selection basics | Create and modify a selection.
How to refine a selection with Select and Mask | Make selections more precise.
How to add to or subtract from a selection | Modify a selection.
Remove small objects from a photo | Hide unwanted items with retouching tools.
Work with layers | Learn how to use layers in the Layers panel.
How to remove objects with generative AI in Photoshop
How to expand images with generative AI in Photoshop