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Recommended Reading | Read/Buy These are the books I read when I'm looking for answers. Workshop DVD (12/08) Alumni! Whether you're a past or upcoming alumn, you can download the latest workshop DVD now. It contains over a semester's worth of content - PDFs, actions, practice files, test files and more! Use it to practice before and after you attend a workshop. Exposure 1. Automatically Embed Your Name in Your Camera Files Automatically include your name in your files’ metadata. 2. Setting Digital Camera Color Space and Format Get the most out of your camera with custom settings. 3. Monitor Histograms | Coming Soon 4. Lens Correction Filter | Coming Soon 5. Test - Camera Calibration (Fors Script) | Coming Soon 6. Test - Chromatic Aberration | Read at Canon 7. Test - Dust | Read at Canon 8. Test - Monitor Histogram | Coming Soon 9. Test - Noise | Read at Canon 10. Test - Sharpest Aperture | Read at Canon 11. Test - Vignetting | Read at Canon 12. Test - White Balance | Coming Soon Editing 1. Slideshows in Adobe Bridge (12/06) | Free How to set up a Slideshow using Bridge. 2. See Techniques for Reviewing | Go To Creativity Finding Your Best Work, Singular Images, Body of Work, and more ... Color Theory 1. Color Theory (9/06) | Free Here are the essentials on which you can base your conceptual foundation of color. 2. An Artist's Palette (6/07) | Free One of the most distinctive things about an artist’s work is his or her use of color. 3. B&W Palettes (12/07) | Free Here are a few examples of black and white palettes drawn from the history of photographic practice. 4. B&W Expanding the Definition (12/07) | Free What is a black and white image? Your definition may be very narrow or very broad. 5. If you Can See It, It's Color (4/05) | Free Color is a complex phenomenon that involves physics, biology, and psychology. 6. Exercise File - Memory (6/07) | Members Only 7. Exercise File - After Image (6/07) | Members Only 8. Exercise File - Transparency (6/07) | Members Only 9. Exercise File - Intervals (6/07) | Members Only 10. Exercise File - Simultaneous Contrast 3=4 (6/07) | Members Only 11. Exercise File - Simultaneous Contrast 4=2 (6/07) | Members Only 12. Exercise File - Optically Neutral (6/07) | Members Only 13. Exercise File - Analysis (6/07) | Members Only Color Management 1. 6 Simple Steps to Good Color Management (9/29) | Free Take these simple steps to get consistent high quality color. 2. Step 1 - Make Profiled Conversions | Coming Soon Assign ICC profiles to make color consistent and predictable. 3. Step 2 - Calibrate and Characterize Your Monitor | Coming Soon Calibrate your monitor with hardware. 4. Step 3 - Photoshop Color Settings | Free Set good Photoshop Color Settings in seconds. 5. Step 4 - Softproof | Coming Soon Preview how your print will look before printing it. 6. Step 5 - Navigate Your Printer Driver | 1.99 | Free to membersSet good color management policies in your printer driver. 7. Step 6 - Control Your Environment | Coming Soon Use good quality light in neutral environments to evaluated your images. 8. 16 Bit | Coming Soon Thousands of shades of gray reduce posterization. 9. Editing Spaces Compared (9/29) | 1.99 | Free to members Wide gamut spaces can hold more saturated color. 10. What to Do with Color Management Dialogs | Coming Soon Missing Profile? Profile Mismatch? Paste Profile Mismatch? Here's what to do. 11. Rendering Intents Compared | Coming Soon Perceptual, Relative Colorimetric, Absolute Colorimetric, Saturation. Here's the difference. Workflow 1. Fine Art Workflow (10/06) | Free Create the highest quality master file with this fine art printing workflow. 2. Creating a Master File (9/06) | Free How to perform global, local corrections and soft proof your files. 3. File Editing Strategy (8/05) | Free How to adjust an image file. 4. Frame Loose, Don't Crop (4/07) | Free Here's a technique to fine-tune the cropping of your image without using the crop tool. 5. Preflight Checklist (4/06) | Free A preflight checklist designed to help you avoid common mistakes before committing to final output. 6. Flexibility (4/08) | Free Keep your options open and preserve the flexibilty of your files. Adjustment 1. B&W Conversions Simple 1 - B&W Adjustment Layer (11/07) | 1.99 | Free to members The easiest way make color to black and white conversions. 2. B&W Conversions Simple 2 - Dual Adjustment Layers (11/07) | 1.99 | Free to members Dual adjustment layers offer even more control. 3. B&W Conversions Complex - Channels as Layers (2/04) | 1.99 | Free to members The most advanced color to black-and-white conversion method. 4. B&W Adding Color (12/07) | 1.99 | Free to members Adding color to a neutral image can enhance the expression of any image. 5. Custom Icons (1/05) | Free Customize your documents' icons. 6. High Pass Contrast (3/07) | 1.99 | Free to members Target contrast to contours. 7. Noise - Reduce Color Noise (2/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Use Color blend mode to reduce color noise. 8. Noise - Reduce Banding (4/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Use noise to reduce banding. Masking 1. Mask Key Commands (10/06) | Free Key commands make masking and selections faster and easier. 2. Viewing Masks(2/07) | Free You can see a mask in a number of ways. 3. Fine Tuning Gradients (2/07) | Free Fine tune your gradiants with masking techniques. Painting 1. Wacom Intuos Controls (1/07) | Free Screen captures of setting up Wacom Intuos Controls, 2. Zooming and Panning (1/07) | Free The Wacom Intuos pen and tablet make zooming and panning easy. 3. Overpaint (1/07) | Free Resist the temptation to use a lot of strokes to fill in a large area. Overpaint it. 4. Cutting Into Corners (6/07) | Free Paint into tight corners quickly and easily. 5. Blocking In Contours (6/07) | Free Show you how in pictures. 6. Determine Precise Opacity Visually (6/07) | Free Determine opacity precisely visually. 7. Making Manual Gradients (6/07) | Free Accentuate the recession of planes and the volume of objects with gradients. 8. Start Hard, Soften Later (6/07) | Free Determine a precise Hardness for a brush visually. 9. Expand and Contract Precisely (6/07) | Free Expand or contract a painted area very precisely with the filters Maximum and Minimum. Atmospheric FX - Adobe Photoshop Master Class II 1. Language of Night (Chapter III) | 1.99 Create night scenes with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 6 pages 2. Atmospheric Perspective (Chapter VII) | 1.99 Simulate perspective with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 6 pages 3. Atmosphere (Chapter XXII) | 1.99 Create fog and haze with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 8 pages 4. Smoke (Chapter XXIII) | 1.99 Generate smoke with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 5 pages 5. Snow/Rain (Chapter XXIV) | 1.99 Simulate snow and rain with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 7 pages 6. Rainbow (Chapter XXV) | 1.99 Render rainbows with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 9 pages 7. Illumination (Chapter XXVI) | 1.99 Produce the effect of light with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 7 pages 8. Stars (Chapter XXVII) | 1.99 Make stars with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 8 pages 9. Lightning (Chapter XXVIII) | 1.99 Introduce lightning with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 8 pages 10. Rays of Light (Chapter XXIX) | 1.99 Depict rays of light with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 8 pages 11. Shadows (Chapter XXX) | 1.99 Represent shadows with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 10 pages Sharpening 1. Sharpen - Edge (4/05) | Back Issue 2. Sharpen - High Pass (2/05) | Back Issue 3. Sharpen - Layers (4/05) | Back Issue 4. Sharpen - Luminance (3/05) | Back Issue Printing 1. Aesthetics of Printing (5/08) | 1.99 | Free to members 2. Evaluating Substrates (10/07) | 1.99 | Free to members Choose media wisely. Your choice of material has a profound impact on your prints. 3. Epson - Print / File Size Chart (5/07) | 1.99 | Free to members These charts display the relationship between print size, file resolution, and bit depth for Epson printers. 4. Epson Driver - Navigating in CS3; Advanced B&W Photo (10/07) | 1.99 | Free to members 5. Epson Driver - Navigating in CS3 (10/07) | 1.99 | Free to members 6. Epson Driver - Navigating in CS3; Double or Nothing (10/07) | 1.99 | Free to members 7. Epson Driver - Ink Limit (11/06) | 1.99 | Free to members 8. Epson - Delete and Reload Printer (10/07) | 1.99 | Free to members 9. Paper Sizes - Standard (08/05) | 1.99 | Free to members 10. Paper Size - Custom (08/05) | 1.99 | Free to members 11. Printer Points of Control (5/07) | 1.99 | Free to members You have a number of points of control with digital printers. 12. Preflight Checklist (4/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Create a preflight checklist designed to help you avoid common mistakes. 13. Longevity (9/29) | 1.99 | Free to members How long do inkjet prints last? What should you do to protect them? Find out here. 14. Outgassing | Coming Soon Cure your prints before framing them. 15. Scale | Coming Soon Size matters. Consider the size of your prints carefully. Proofing 1. Proof - The Art of Proofing (7/06) | Free Refinine your proofing process to achieve the best print quality efficiently. 2. Proof - BAT (10/06) | 1.99 | Free to members BAT (bon a tiré) it’s the final proof print. 3. Proof - Bracket Proofing (12/05) | 1.99 | Free to members Bracket proof and get one hundred proofs in one. 4. Proof - Compensate for Scale (2/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Larger images appear lighter than smaller images. It’s an optical effect that affects your prints. 5. Proof - Correcting for Viewing Light (2/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Compensate for discrepancies in profiles and viewing light temperatures. 6. Proof - Full Scale (3/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Proof at full scale to check noise and sharpness. 7. Proof - Light Temperature (2/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Light temperature has a significant effect on exposure, calibration, printing, and display. 8. Proof - Notes (3/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Take good notes so you can retrace your steps precisely. 9. Proof - Prevent Overinking (11/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Set proper ink limit for a substrate and reduce overinking. 10. Proof - Proof Template PSD File (5/08) | 1.99 | Free to members Use this PSD file to make proofs. 11. Proof - A Step-by Step Guide to Using the Proof Template (5/08) | 1.99 | Free to members Steps to using the Proof Template. Test Files 1. Using Gray Gradient Test Files (1/07) | Free A little testing up front can ensure that you get the finest results possible. 2. Test File - Gray Gradient Smooth (5/07) | Members Only 3. Test File - Gray Gradient 10% Steps(5/07) | Members Only 4. Test File - Gray Gradient 5% Steps(5/07) | Members Only 5. Test File - Gray Gradient 1% Steps (5/07) | Members Only 6. Test File - Spectrum Gradients(5/07) | Members Only 7. Test File - RGBCMY (5/07) | Members Only 8. Test File - RGBCMY to Black Smooth (5/07) | Members Only 9. Test File - RGBCMY to Black Posterized (5/07) | Members Only 10. Test File - RGBCMY to White Smooth (5/07) | Members Only 11. Test File - RGBCMY to White Posterized (5/07) | Members Only 12. Test File - Line Pairs | Coming for Members Only |
