Hi guys, you may have noticed that occasionally contests are being extended by extra days without individual announcements. At the moment we are all still living in strange times. It's very difficult to set contests which are possible or even attractive to complete and also members are having to liv...

As they are real, self-published, and not created for the recent Book Cover contest, I asked for preapproval to post to the forum after the contest was over. Well, it is over so our real book covers can be found at http://www.learningadventurebooks.com Good job to all the Book Cover contest partici...

Ok guys, around we go AGAIN!

The new series starts Friday 8th May ... get your 'A's ready!!

We've had fantastic participation in the Alphabet Soup series. It's been a great fun contest but sadly we are almost through the alphabet with only the letter Z left to play for .... except just maybe we are not quite through with this one after all ... does anybody fancy going round again?

Why am I back inside on a bright sunny day, blue skies and 21C outside....because all the neighbourhood is out there creating bedlam in their gardens...can't complain, I had all day out there until now, and anyway I'm getting sunburned. I'll take a shower then find a beer and some really soothing mu...

Well done for keeping the lights on, Mickey. I wish I could play more right now, which seems the perfect opportunity while we are all locked up in our homes! But I am now working full-time from home, converted all my studies to online studies (2 units), and we are doing home renovations and my husb...

Hi Everyone, not the best of times at the moment and I guess that is why entries are low. Advanced: Fire has been withdrawn for now, but there are a couple of new ones for you, 'Design a Book Cover' (Bonus) and 'Glass' (Advanced), so you have something to work on. Stay safe guys

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Just a couple more days to enter the January contest folks. Any subject is fine, any January is fine!

I'd be happy to hear the steps others take to correct blow-outs. 1) Try very hard to get it close in camera and avoid blown highlights. I'd rather have too dark and recover from that vs blown highlights. :lol: 2) Then camera raw corrections -- even on jpg if a raw file is not available. 3) Finally,...