Hey all,
Another week has passed, and we have meetings this Wednesday.
Now I will explain the photographers first:
The contest this week will stay the same as the one last week which was ‘landscape’ mainly because you forgot to vote. A reminder, members are able to borrow society equipment (e.g. cameras, flash, studio system, tripod and accessories). If you want to use anything, just email Mikey at mar35@kent.ac.uk. Maybe I should have said this first but the meeting is at 5pm in the library, in the training room 301 (TR301), this room is on the third floor next to the computer room. There are signs about if you get lost or anything. In this meeting will be an initiation to digital post-processing. GIMP portable is the software that we will be using and not Adobe Photoshop. All the skills that will be learnt in this session will apply to all major image editing programs even though you can do the same things in Photoshop, for instance. GIMP (www.gimp.org) is FREE and it works on UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows. ‘GIMP’ Portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable) works on Windows ONLY but it can be run from a USB stick or an external hard drive – which allows us to use it on University computers. If you want to play around with the program before the meeting (recommended), follow the instructions below. If you run into any problems please use the forums on our flickr group to ask questions (http://flickr.com/groups/uok/). Alternatively we’ll show you how to do it at the meeting. Instructions on how to run GIMP on university computers:
1. Go to one of the university’s public computers (e.g. in the library or the colleges) and log in.
2. Go to http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable and download GIMP Portable. Start the extractor (GIMP_Portable_2.6.2.paf.exe).
3. Follow the installation instructions. When asked for the destination folder, click ‘Browse’ and go to Desktop->My Computer->USERNAME on ‘bodiam\Hbt’ (Z:)->My Files. USERNAME will be the login you used to access the computer. Click Install, wait, and then click Finish.
4. Go to the folder into which you installed GIMP Portable. Run GIMPPortable.exe. It will take a minute or two to load.
5. There you go, GIMP will now be available in your My Files folder whenever you log in to a university computer. If you would like to use GIMP Portable wherever you go, install it on a USB stick instead of the Z: drive. It should work on any Windows computer.
Now the models, we have a meeting, but only fashion show models will HAVE to attend. Attendance is MANDORATORY, I repeat MANDORATORY. The meeting is at 6pm, in the Charles Kennedy Room. Girls, make sure you bring your heels. The whole point of this session is for everyone to get a chance to team build, get to know each other, practice walking and posing, that sort of thing. This is a closed practice may I remind you, so only fashion show models and the fashion show committee will be permitted. This session will be loads of fun, like it always is…lol…anywho hope to see all you guys there, and you better be there or else 
..jokes, but seriously…be there.
