|
Technique Exposure | HDR | Color Theory | Color Management | Workflow | Black & White Looking for high quality information on digital photography and digital printing? Some content is free for Members or workshop Alumni. Recommended Reading These are the books I read when I'm looking for answers. Find them here. 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 (9/05) | 1.99 | Free to members Automatically include your name in your files’ metadata. 2. Setting Digital Camera Color Space and Format (9/05) | 1.99 | Free to members Get the most out of your camera with custom settings. 3. Monitor Histograms | Coming Soon 4. Lens Correction Filter | Coming Soon 5. Test - White Balance | Coming Soon 6. Test - Chromatic Aberration | Read at Canon 7. Test - Dust | Read at Canon 8. Test - Noise | Read at Canon 9. Test - Sharpest Aperture | Read at Canon 10. Test - Vignetting | Read at Canon HDR 1. Introduction to HDR| Read at Digital Photo Pro 2. XDR - Double Processing | Read at Digital Photo Pro 3. XDR - Double Exposure | Read at Digital Photo Pro 4. XDR - HDR Merges with Photoshop | Read at Digital Photo Pro 5. XDR - HDR Merges with Photomatix | Read at Digital Photo Pro 6. XDR - Aesthetics of HDR | Read at Digital Photo Pro Learn more in my DVD Extending Dynamic Range – HDR Imaging. 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. Color Analysis | Read at Apple 7. Graphing Color | Read at Apple 8. Saturation | Read at Apple 9. Simultaneous Contrast | Read at Apple 10. Color Temperature | Read at Apple 11. Exercise File - Memory (6/07) | Members Only 12. Exercise File - After Image (6/07) | Members Only 13. Exercise File - Transparency (6/07) | Members Only 14. Exercise File - Intervals (6/07) | Members Only 15. Exercise File - Simultaneous Contrast 3=4 (6/07) | Members Only 16. Exercise File - Simultaneous Contrast 4=2 (6/07) | Members Only 17. Exercise File - Optically Neutral (6/07) | Members Only 18. Exercise File - Analysis (6/07) | Members Only Learn more in my DVD - Photoshop Color Strategies Color Management 1. 6 Simple Steps to Good Color Management (9/08) | Free Take these simple steps to get consistent high quality color. 2. Step 1 - Make Profiled Conversions | 1.99 | Free to members 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 (9/08)| 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. Editing Spaces Compared (9/08) | 1.99 | Free to members Wide gamut spaces can hold more saturated color. 9. What to Do with Color Management Dialogs | 1.99 | Free to members Missing Profile? Profile Mismatch? Paste Profile Mismatch? Here's what to do. 10. Rendering Intents Compared | Coming Soon Perceptual, Relative Colorimetric, Absolute Colorimetric, Saturation. Here's the difference. Learn more in my DVD - 6 Simple Steps to Good Color Management 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. 7. 16-Bit (Adobe Photoshop Master Class) | 1.99 Thousands of shades of gray reduce posterization. (all versions) - 5 pages 8. Size (Adobe Photoshop Master Class) | 1.99 Measuring your digital Image (all versions) - 5 pages 9. High Pass Contrast (3/07) | 1.99 | Free to members Target contrast to contours. Learn more in my DVD - Fine Art Digital Workflow Black & White 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. Simulating B&W Infared (Adobe Photoshop Master Class) | 1.99 Create the look of infared with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 7 pages Learn more in my DVD - Black & White Mastery
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.
4. Local Adjustment | Read at Digital Photo Pro 5. Masking Essentials I | Read at Digital Photo Pro 6. Masking Essentials II | Read at Digital Photo Pro 7. Gradients | Read at Digital Photo Pro 8. Contrast Masks | Read at Digital Photo Pro 9. Contour Masks | Read at Digital Photo Pro
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 Learn more in my DVD - Atmospheric FX Noise 1. Noise - Use It 2. Noise - Lose It 3. Noise - Lose It 4. Noise - Reduce Color Noise (2/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Use Color blend mode to reduce color noise. 5. Noise - Reduce Banding (4/06) | 1.99 | Free to members Use noise to reduce banding. 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 (9/08) | 1.99 | Free to members How long do inkjet prints last? What should you do to protect them? Find out here. 14. Outgassing (1/09) | 1.99 | Free to members Cure your prints before framing them. 15. Scale (1/09) | 1.99 | Free to members Size matters. Consider the size of your prints carefully. 16. Output II - Film (Adobe Photoshop Master Class) | 1.99 Printing digital negatives with Adobe Photoshop (all versions) - 6 pages 17. Metamerism (4/09) | Free Metameric failure is the tendency of an object to change appearance under different light sources. 18. Bronzing (4/09) | Free Bronzing is an iridescent flash of color, typically bronze, produced when viewing prints under varying angles of light. 19. Gloss Differential (4/09) | Free Gloss differential is an uneven reflectance of the surface of a print. 20. Limited Editions (4/09) | $1.99 | Free to members Edition structures disclose the number of prints that will be made of an image. Edition structures vary widely ñ some are open (without limit) and some are limited. 21. Notation (10/09) | 1.99 | Free to members The notations you make on your prints add value to them. 22. Mounting (10/09) | 1.99 | Free to members Ensure that your prints are protected and beautifully displayed. Learn more in my DVD - Fine Art Digital Printing
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. Learn more in my DVD - The Art of Proofing 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 Soon |
 |
 |