WASC resources: advice articles and useful links

This page deals with general 'how to' philatelic topics. Some of the material has been put together by members of WASC, but we will also add links to external sources, particularly YouTube vidoes which give helpful guidance.

Resources relating to displaying and using Zoom
A general advice document aimed at those thinking about displaying material at a meeting.

Material from a session on how to access Zoom and how to make a PowerPoint display, together with a video recording of the 'how to' presentation, with presenter's comments.

Zoom presentations of general philatelic techniques
Survey of ways of using IT in philately, using photo-manipulation software.

Other material relating to philatelic methods

Extending the colour key describes a method devised by Ray Harris, and published by him in the London Philatelist, by which colour can be assessed more objectively than by eye, but which does not require access to a spectrometer.

Measuring cancel diameters describes a method for measuring the diameter of even partial cancellations very accurately. It which uses any photo-editing software which includes the facility to use layers allied to a transparency devised by Ray Harris which can be downloaded from the page

A note from Ray Harris describing how to use Adobe Acrobat to search for a particular word or phrase in all the .pdf files in a particular folder. If you have 100 .pdf files in a folder this can be a very helpful time-saver!

Useful videos from YouTube

...to be added over time