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What we wished we had known in the beginning! This program is packed with essential Workflow processes to increase your productivity and valuable adjustment techniques to optimize your images including Color Management, Archiving, Watermarks, Camera RAW, Scaling, Sharpening, Resolution, Actions and more!

Lessons

Chapter 1 : Camera & Photoshop Workflow Essentials
Lesson 1 : Camera Workflow
Start off on the right foot with essential info on file formats, color spaces, exposure and archiving.
Lesson 2 : Photoshop Workflow
Understand the Zen of Photoshop - from always preserving you original to when to do what, when.
Lesson 3 : Color Management
The Reader's Digest overview of understanding Calibration, Profiles, Printing and Conversion.
Lesson 4 : File Browsing
Work efficiently with the phenomenal File Browser and it's plethora of features.
Lesson 5 : Camera Raw Conversions
Adjust and optimize the brightness, contrast and color of an image using Camera Raw.
Lesson 6 : Cropping, Straightening & Adjusting Perspective
Start off straight with three techniques for setting things right.

Chapter 2 : Mastering Selections
Lesson 7 : The Lasso
Understanding the powerful options of the Magnetic Lasso Tool.
Lesson 8 : The Pen
Know the basics of the Pen Tool, and how to use it's Magnetic option.
Lesson 9 : Quick Mask Painting
How to get beyond the Marching Ants and start soft edge selecting with a brush.
Lesson 10 : The Background Eraser
Automated smart erasing with the Erasers long lost cousin.
Lesson 11 : Color Range
How to quickly isolate items based on their colors - and how to clean up your act when things get grungy.
Lesson 12 : Extract
Use Extract to quickly isolate complex objects with soft edges from their backgrounds.

Chapter 3 : Processing & Presenting Your Work
Lesson 13 : Embed Info
When moving images electronically, it’s essential to maintain copyright, usage information and vital details needed to catalog your images.
Lesson 14 : Watermark
Add a legal, aesthetic or defensive overlay to show ownership, sign, or to restrict the use of your images.
Lesson 15 : Picture Package
Transform one or more images into a collection of standard-sized prints conveniently arranged on a single page.
Lesson 16 : PDF Slides
Save a collection of images into a PDF file for easy distribution and presentation.
Lesson 17 : Web Photo Gallery
Quickly transform a folder full of images into an interactive Web Photo Gallery.
Lesson 18 : Action Web Optimize
How to use Actions to instantly scale images to their proper size and save them in a web-friendly format.

Chapter 4 : Optimizing Tone & Contrast
Lesson 19 : Understanding Levels & Curves
Optimizing a photos tonality and color using Level's histogram, sliders and eye droppers.
Lesson 20 : Dodging & Burning with Layers
Try these fast and flexible methods for pulling out detail, accentuating shapes and toning down distractions.
Lesson 21 : Shadow & Highlight Resuscitations
Coax out highlight and shadow detail to rescue “tonally challenged” originals.
Lesson 22 : Combining Multiple Exposures
Quickly combine a highlight exposure with a shadow exposure to create an image with tremendous dynamic range.

Chapter 5 : Optimizing Color & Detail
Lesson 23 : Neutralizing Color Casts
Five variations on fixing and fine-tuning color balance in your photos.
Lesson 24 : Targeted Color Control with Sliders
Use Hue/Saturation to isolate and then shift the basic color of an area.
Lesson 25 : Noise Reduction
Reduce the appearance of both color and luminance noise with a simple one-two punch.
Lesson 26 : Scaling, Sharpening & Resolution
Resolution, Interpolation, UnSharp Masking and the oft-overlooked Highpass Filter.