First Facebook, then Flickr, what’s next Twitter, you might ask? And of course the answer would be, Why Yes, Yes it is! I’ve created a twitter account for the club ( cmpg_photos ) that with Geren’s help, is now linked to our website. Posts, announcements, even uploads to our Flickr site are automatically posted [...]
Written on March 12, 2010 | Posted in
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We’re happy to announce that we’ve outgrown Room 224 at Chapelgate. Effective with this meeting, we now will be meeting in Room 212/213 — still on the second floor at Chapelgate Presbyterian Church. Meetings are still held once a month — generally on the 4th Wednesday of the month, at 7PM.
Written on March 5, 2010 | Posted in
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The Central Maryland Photographers’ Guild now has its own flickr Group. Central Maryland Photographers’ Guild_CMPG This group will be open to any CMPG, Fickr member, who wishes to showcase one or more of their favorite images on Flickr. Since I’ve restricted group membership to club members only, (only members can post all can see) send [...]
Written on February 28, 2010 | Posted in
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It may not look much different, but the CMPG web site has just undergone some significant upgrades. The three-hour-process included replacing and/or updating virtually every file associated with the CMPG web site, as well as restructuring the two MySQL databases that hold the site data. None of this will mean much to our visitors, except that [...]
Written on January 5, 2010 | Posted in
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“Right-click downloads” of images from the CMPG web site have been disabled, including images displayed “full size” or in slide shows. This should discourage casual copying of member images. Of course, there are still ways to defeat any copy protection scheme, this action should deter most casual image grabbers. In addition, the ability to copy [...]
Written on December 1, 2008 | Posted in
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The industry standard for resizing images to any size adds several new features and includes support for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative software tools for photographers, today announced Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition and Genuine Fractals 6 Standard Edition. Genuine Fractals 6 adds several [...]
Written on November 25, 2008 | Posted in
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Just a reminder that advanced registration for our Tony Sweet Seminar, to take place on January 10 (snow-date, January 17) is open. Advanced registration prices are $10 for non-members, $7.50 for members. Admission will be $15 at the door, and there is a strict seating limit of 200. Pre-register using the selections below. Please be [...]
Written on October 31, 2008 | Posted in
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It is now possible to purchase a new or renewal CMPG membership or pay for admission to CMPG events (such as the upcoming Tony Sweet seminar) right on the CMPG web site. Payments are collected through PayPal, which has proven to be a reliable method of collecting funds for the CMPG. For those who do [...]
Written on October 15, 2008 | Posted in
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CMPG Members may now place free classified ads for photo-related items right here on the web site. Please make your listings as complete as possible, and place contact information within the body of the ad. Note that the “mail to friend” options are not yet working with the classified ads pages.
Written on October 14, 2008 | Posted in
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All of the major components of the new CMPG web site are in place and seem to be working. Now, it’s time to remove the “test” content, populate the site with “real” content, set up the empty forums and galleries, and define all the security aspects of the site. If all goes well, the new [...]
Written on September 7, 2008 | Posted in
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