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Welcome to The Focal Point, our community newsletter where creativity, learning, and connection come into sharp focus. Here you’ll find featured member photos, upcoming events, recommended educational videos, member-submitted articles, and spotlights on the people who make our community thrive. The Focal Point is shaped by you, and we welcome submissions of all kinds—from images and stories to ideas and inspiration. If you have something to share, we encourage you to send it in and help keep our collective vision clear, curious, and creative.

• View or Download Vol 2 #2, Feb 1, 2026
  • Eastside Camera Club - Years in Review
  • Member Spotlight: Bill Buchanan
  • New Member Spotlight: Matt Lijewski
  • Composition Simplified: Repetition
  • Improve Your Photos Displayed on Our Website
  • Monthly Training:
    • AI Edit Status and LIGHTROOM
    • Making Good Light Even Better in LR or PS
    • How to Sculpt Light in Luminar Neo
    • This Mask Changed How I Edit in Luminar Neo
    • 2 Ways to Remove Anything in Photoshop
    • Photoshop generative partner model is at restoring old photographs
    • How to Remove Distractions With the Clone Stamp in Photoshop
  • From Idea to Ending: A Story Writing Framework

• View or Download Vol 1 #12, Dec 1, 2025
  • Member Spotlight: John Mattarella
  • Monthly Training:
    • 3 Questions That Make Every Photo Better!
    • This NEW LIGHTROOM TOOL easily fixes a BIG PROBLEM
    • New AI Assisted Culling Feature in Lightroom
    • Don't Make These Beginner Flash Mistakes
    • FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY: Flash Power Settings For Beginners
    • Light Depth Instantly Improved my Editing (Luminar Neo)
    • STOP Fighting Photoshop Layers! The 1-Click BLENDING MODE You NEED
  • Composition Simplified: Opposition
  • Ten Foot Circle
  • Behind the Lens Hacks: Winter
• View or Download Vol 1 #10, Nov 1, 2025
  • Member Spotlight: Tom Barr
  • Monthly Training:
    • Prepare an Image for Print in Photoshop - Step-by-Step
    • 5 HIDDEN HACKS in LIGHTROOM you NEVER KNEW existed!
    • Lightroom’s Darkest Editing Secret for Stunning FALL COLORS
    • Welcome to 30 Days of Lightroom
    • You'll Never View Dodge & Burn the Same After This (Luminar Neo)
    • 10X Your Masking in Luminar Neo (3 Killer Tips)
    • 5 Creative Tasks That Will Make You a Better Photographer
  • Composition Simplified: How to Obtain Depth or Distance
  • "No Name" Bar Bands and Lighting
  • Plugin for Lightroom Classic to View Focus Points
  • Behind the Lens Hacks: Shower Cap Rain Cover
• View or Download Vol 1 #9, Oct 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • CAMERA Stuff that's Actually WORTH the MONEY!
    • One Click to Better Selections
    • The NEW Actions Panel in Photoshop
    • Cool New Stuff in LUMINAR NEO
    • How to Capture Awesome Night Photos Handheld — No Tripod Needed!
    • 5 Quiet Photoshop Updates You May Have Missed
    • 30 Days of Photoshop with PHLEARN
  • Composition Simplified: How to Center the Interest
  • Better Photos are Just a Few Thoughts Away!
  • Behind the Lens Hacks: Pipe Insulation Window Tripod
• View or Download Vol 1 #8, Sep 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Message from the Editor
    • How to Use the Alignment Tools in Photoshop
    • Lightroom Tricks Nobody Talks About (But Pros Use All the Time)
    • 5 Lightroom Tips You Wish You Knew Yesterday!
    • Luminar Quick Tip: My 3-Click White Balance Fix
    • 5 Lightroom Sliders You’re Using WRONG!
  • Composition Simplified: Rectangle
  • Become a Flasher
• View or Download Vol 1 #7, Aug 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Mastering the art of food photography
    • A New Improved Tool in PHOTOSHOP
    • Replace the Sky using Luminar for Android
    • Sharing Photos with others
    • The Frame Tool in Photoshop
    • 5 Ways to Speed Up Lightroom Classic
    • 5 Things Everyone Should Know About Lightroom
  • Composition Simplified: The Cross
  • Bologna Sandwich
• View or Download Vol 1 #6, Jul 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Street Photography Settings
    • Luminar Neo CHEAT CODE
    • Focus Points and Focus Area
    • Photoshop 101: The Art of the Clipping Mask
    • Lightroom June 2025 Update
    • Do This to get INCREDIBLE rural landscape photography
  • Composition Simplified: The Line of Beauty
• View or Download Vol 1 #6, Jun 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Photographing Fireworks
    • Photographing Star Trails
    • 4 Photography Composition Tips
    • Portrait Mode in iPhone's Camera
    • Add Text Behind Object in Photoshop
    • Change Background Color in Photoshop
  • Composition Simplified: The Circle
  • Photographing the Milky Way
• View or Download Vol 1 #5, May 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Why Aperture Affects Depth of Field
    • Photoshop Elements Brighten and Add Color
    • Tips for composition and framing to create better street pictures
    • Lightroom on Mobile for Beginners
    • How to add a white boarder
    • One Click to better Selections in Lightroom
  • Composition Simplified: The Scale v
• View or Download Vol 1 #4, Apr 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Delete you old Lightroom Catalogs
    • Remove Electric Lines
    • Lightroom Basics: A Beginner’s Guide
    • How to Create Presets in Luminar Neo
  • Code of Practice for Nature Photographers
  • Rembrandt lighting
• View or Download Vol 1 #3, Mar 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Mastering Cycling Photography Tips
    • Cycling Photo Tips
    • How To PROPERLY USE Lightroom PROFILES
    • Here’s how to upgrade your compositions FAST
    • Making sun stars 2min video
  • Light Painting
• View or Download Vol 1 #2, Feb 1, 2025
  • Take a Vacation
  • Monthly Training:
    • Adding Copyright and Contact Information to Photographs in Lightroom
    • Long Exposure Photography
    • How to Create a Double Panorama
    • DNG vs RAW-What, Why and should you convert
    • Learn Lightroom
    • Organizing in Lightroom with Scott Kelby
• View or Download Vol 1 #1, Jan 1, 2025
  • Monthly Training:
    • Macro Photography Guide for Beginners
    • Panning Photography Made Simple
    • 7 Step Advanced Black & White Editing in Lightroom