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- The 30-day Bridge challenge: Free yourself from Lightroom elements histogram
- Selling digital images client customer jpeg jpg sRGB 11:15 color colour printing sharpening
- The Bridge Class training course education
- All about monitor calibration screen brightness gamma profile profiling print
- Trash those Jpegs! psd export
- Read this before beginning calibration monitor screen spyder x-rite xrite datacolor
- Cropping in the workflow crop tool trim rule of thirds
- The wide gamut myth (or: Why you must work in sRGB) gamut lightroom Adobe RGB prophoto
- The "Handyman Method" dodge burn
- Introduction to soft-proofing in Photoshop bit gamut printing lab
- Simple dodge and burn tutorial D&B
- The non-destructive workflow layers
- Which monitor to buy screen ips dell eizo calibration what
- Which monitor calibrator to buy x-rite xrite spyder datacolor screen
- The case for re-sampling resampling resizing sharpening unsharp mask resolution
- Raw noise removal ACR Camera Raw Lightroom noisy
- The role of masks when cloning clone stamp tool
- Using Photoshop’s Gradient layer
- The wonderful Dust & Scratches filter noise smoothing dust and scratches frequency separation
- Histogram identification test
- Lightroom colour space settings sRGB color space
- My black-and-white conversion action monochrome preset
- Save for web actions with watermarking logo batch processing bridge image processor
- Make your very first action facebook
- Cellulite fix action (skin smoothing) frequency separation photoshop
- Viewing colour channels in Photoshop Elements color channel mixer action
- File saves action jpg jpeg psd
- LAB mode black-and-white conversion action monochrome l*a*b*
- Damien's classes editing raw levels skin channel mixer sharpening prepress cmyk layers masks creativity
- FAQs about the classes frequently asked questions training courses
- Can't find the class you signed up for? error course
- The Raw Class elements training course camera lightroom acr
- The Layers & Masks Class elements training course pixel workspace blend modes adjustment
- The Levels Class curves elements training course
- The Advanced Levels Class curves elements training course complex
- The Print Sharpening Class elements printing sharpness output unsharp mask smart sharpen ppi dpi
- The Skin Class elements skintones smoothing complexion frequency separation
- The Channel Mixer Class artistic creative glasses glare training course education creativity
- The CMYK Class press printing cmyk deep etching logo design soft-proofing indesign illustrator vectors paths training course education
- Which graphics tablet to buy wacom
- Which editing software to buy program photoshop elements lightroom glary cleanmymac bridge adobe cc
- Print lab reviews printing professional whcc millers mpix bay
- Calibration instructions: Spyder datacolor
- Calibration instructions: X-Rite xrite i1 i1display
- Calibration instructions: ColorMunki x-rite xrite
- Why do some print labs tell you to change your Photoshop Color Settings? printing sRGB North America General Purpose convert to working RGB
- CMYK or RGB files for press printing? print lab convert gamut cyan magenta yellow black
- Can’t find your soft-proofing ICC profiles print lab
- The sRGB troubleshooter colour color space Adobe RGB ProPhoto RGB untagged cmyk
- Facebook colour troubleshooter color space colour space social media chrome firefox safari microsoft edge color
- Preparing CMYK files for newspaper printing newsprint advertising prepress cmyk gamut soft-proofing
- Problems with calibrating a small-gamut monitor screen calibration purple
- Comparing your screen to your prints calibration monitor
- My frustrations with the Australian printing industry cmyk rant prepress
- Understanding Photoshop's Color Settings north america general purpose 2
- Proof setup: Working CMYK ... not really photoshop iron proof colors
- How we see image colour on Facebook firefox social media chrome
- Buying a wide-gamut screen monitor eizo dell NEC
- Please be wary of CMYK press printing
- Color Settings in Photoshop Elements Always Optimize sRGB
- Assign profile vs Convert to profile icc
- Colour modes vs colour spaces rgb cmyk
- Do Photoshop’s Color Settings matter?
- Check your monitor’s gamut screen icc profile
- Football analogy: Why sRGB makes sense
- Troubleshooter 2: The desperation zone sRGB
- Please ignore your monitor profile calibration screen
- FAQ: Client files too small or low resolution selling digital print size
- Checking the size of digital photo files pixels resolution dimensions jpeg jpg megapixels money ppi pixels per inch
- "Invalid JPEG marker" problem corrupt jpg
- The PNG delusion website file facebook transparency slow
- About Resolution ppi pixels per inch HD UHD 4K 5K 8K 300ppi 72ppi
- Let’s cut Facebook some slack! compression web social media
- The myths of digital imaging
- Preparing web proofs for your customer 11:15 watermark
- Selling digital files? You can’t limit print size client customer
- Best practice for web photos social media watermark
- Simple Lens Blur tutorial alpha channel filter
- Blurring an object in the foreground of a photo
- Shrinking an object in a photo head funny small liquify
- Learning to identify casts colour color wheel
- The importance of reviewing your editing adjustments layer layers alt option preview
- Simulating Channel Mixer in Photoshop Elements pse
- Safely adding noise to an image banding pattern backdrop lines
- Photoshop vignette methods
- That rich look dark hue/saturation multiply blend mode
- Powerful Gradient Map techniques blend modes
- Wonderful Channel Mixer black-and-white
- Choosing house paint colours home walls hue/saturation
- Urban Processing: some ideas gradient map blend modes multiply overlay burn hue/saturation
- A fun rainbow effect gradient
- Preparing headshots to exact size senior yearbook magazine
- Multiplicity (merging photos) multiple combine
- Luminosity Selections
- Screen and Soft Light blend modes midtone contrast
- What makes a great black-and-white photo? b&w bw monochrome
- Channel Mixer to fix a sun flare
- Blend modes for editing: Not a good idea screen soft light
- Creating a fake blanket with texture high pass background
- Demonstration: Extending a studio floor backdrop background
- Levels (or Curves) eyedropper for changing colours backdrop background
- Replacing a background behind hair eyedropper
- Preventing banding in backdrops gradient noise
- Sky replacement method swap skies clouds
- Adding a little bit of colour to a white sky skies selective color blue cyan
- Achieving white backgrounds in your portraits eyedropper
- Blue or green screen for background replacement? extract refine edge select and mask
- Adding a little bit of blue to a white sky (Elements) pse gradient skies
- Orange gradient for a dusk sky sunset golden hour skies
- Blanket fade tutorial
- Using a gradient layer to fix a sky skies gradient tool
- Fading a background into a floor studio backdrop
- Blurring a background (fake depth of field) false DOF lens blur
- Moiré moire stripes stripy clothing
- Fixing chromatic aberration CA purple edge green edge red edge
- Distortion or perspective correction tutorial [Elements] PSE transform skew straighten crooked
- Distortion or perspective correction tutorial [Photoshop] transform skew straighten crooked
- Using a Photo Filter layer to fix casts cast correction
- Strategies for managing out-of-gamut clothing soft-proofing gamut printing clipping bright red
- Case study: Bright red clothing soft-proofing gamut printing clipping
- Layer blend modes save the day lucky hard light
- Pesky pinks noise histogram channels clothing
- Ridding pesky rainbows dodge and burn soft light handyman
- Minimising soft shadows hue/saturation levels dodging
- Blending two exposures combining merging backlight backlit
- Softening hard shadows cloning clone stamp tool
- Fixing a crossed eye crosseyed swap flip
- Liquify demonstration (with cloning and dodge & burn) tummy stomach thin
- Fixing red-eye red eye pupil
- Simple head-swap and face-swap tutorial headswap
- Double chin fix without Liquify dodge and burn
- Some ramblings about skin skintones cmyk
- Patch Tool for eye bags under eyes creases wrinkles
- Fixing Skin – acne, scratches, veins and blemishes pimples skin smoothing rash frequency separation
- Whitening eyes sclera eyedropper
- Whitening teeth dental
- Flipping an eye swap reverse smart object
- Correcting eyes distorted by glasses transform enlarge
- Fixing tan lines tanlines suntan fake tan strap
- Creamy / silky / perfect / angelic skin skin smoothing skintones frequency separation
- A fix for glowing backlit ears
- Dealing with "hot" areas of skin glowing red skin oversaturated
- Painting on some skin blown out skin blend mode
- Skintones – don’t be hasty white balance exposure
- Editing skintones in Photoshop Elements PSE
- The right way to approach adjustment layer masks select selections magic wand marquee tool
- Some layer mask tricks Add subtract intersect
- "Extract then copy" vs "Copy then extract" composites copy paste selection
- Batch adjust timestamps in Lightroom to easily sync files LR
- The "Exposure Triangle" is a hoax ISO shutter speed focus
- Finding ALL your Facebook messages [on phone] FB
- Finding ALL your Facebook messages [on computer] FB
- The wonderful "Scanner" app for Windows PC health hard drive space hard disk space
- Password security
- The Caps Lock Trap brush tool crosshair
- Low key and high key photos low-key high-key
- Weddings: A plea to all photographers focus clean processing
- Free texture files – old leather overlay
- Another food analogy – Raw files vs Jpeg files pancakes flat dull boring
- Camera resolution: less is more six 6 megapixels
- Colours that are not what we think they are lies kindergarten grass skies
- The frustration of multiple light sources mixed lighting
- Working with dual screens (Windows 10) multiple monitors extend desktop vga DVI
- Simple screen uniformity check monitor fading
- Got a Dell laptop? You must turn off PremierColor
- When your desktop screen’s brightness won’t go low enough darker monitor calibration
- Windows operating system losing the monitor profile Vista lost profile losing dropping
- Monitor calibration: maintain your professional standards bathroom plumber client
- The light around your computer office workspace dark dim
- Must I calibrate?
- Damn you, Dynamic Contrast!
- Calibration "before-and-after" confusion spyder x-rite
- What’s the purpose of monitor calibration? why
- The "Blend If" sliders in Photoshop layer blending blend-if
- Histogram identification test 2: Raw files
- Alt/Option key tricks
- What nobody tells you about Curves midtone contrast
- Curved box method pen tool path shape
- Some alternatives to cloning healing patch copy paste
- The Pen Tool myth
- Smart Objects: What they’re for, and what they’re NOT headswaps collages storyboards
- The overrated adjustment brush lightroom camera raw acr
- Brush Tool – difference between opacity and flow
- Opacity shortcuts brush tool keyboard
- Photoshop’s "Arrange" functions windows tabs
- Comparing Curves and Levels histogram
- Shift while brushing shift key straight lines paint bucket tool
- Making PDFs from Photoshop pdf files acrobat vector text type
- A tour of the Actions panel button mode recording
- Itty bitty tips for PS on PC hints Ctrl-Tab shortcuts
- Adjustment layers – strength vs opacity
- Straightening horizons crooked rotate rotation
- Printing enlargements: How big can you go? eyelashes billboard focus
- Cropping and printing: the 8×10 problem composition
- Preparing a file at the right size for a wrapped canvas print printing frame canvas wrap
- Preparing files for a wrapped triptych canvas set of canvas wraps
- Printing big enlargement megapixels
- Canvas is great!
- Tiff files for printing print lab tif file jpeg
- Clarification re: print labs Adobe RGB gamut soft-proofing
- Printing big? Test small first section test print
- 16-bit to 8-bit bit depth convert
- Scanning guidelines for old photo restoration slides negatives damaged historic
- Reproducible size of old photos enlarge how big restoration repair historic
- More channel mixing channel mixer restoration spots mould mildew
- Tips for photographing old photos for restoration camera historic tripod
- Understanding Unsharp Mask USM sharpening
- Noise removal and sharpening – the leap of faith Print Sharpening Class noise removal
- Sharpening for web social media unsharp mask website blog
- How do I retrieve lost or damaged files? corrupt failed hard drive recovery disk
- High Pass Filter Sharpening hi pass
- Photoshop mini-tutorials mini tutes
- About JPEG file size jpg compression megabytes
- Tip when transferring image files to your computer card reader
- Buying a Mac or a PC windows macos
- Mangled watermarks on Facebook pink magenta green blurry
- How to properly re-install Spyder software (Windows) datacolor PC
- Increasing bit depth in Photoshop – myths and truths 8-bit 16-bit 8 bit 16 bit 8bit 16bit
- Camera Profile options in ACR and LR Adobe Color Adobe Standard Faithful Lightroom Adobe Camera Raw
- What is XMP data all about? metadata
- Don't allow your images to become untagged! embed profile include profile
- To DNG, or not to DNG digital negative backup cloud upload
- View your filename extensions in Windows file name extensions
- Why PPI doesn’t matter – yet another analogy milk cup glass pixels per inch 72ppi 72dpi
- Cursor preferences brush precise crosshair cross hair
- Bit depth … explained by cake 16-bit 16bit 16 bit
- What you see when you pixel-peep pixel peeping 100% close up
- Measure the resolution of your screen monitor resolution ppi
- Simple clipping mask and storyboard tutorial collage design
- Simple storyboard tutorial – part 2: multiple photos clipping masks collage design
- Create your own wall guides furniture
- More about storyboards: Intersecting shapes paths design
- Rounded corner shapes storyboard collage template paths design
- Easy, funky, crazy clipping masks design template storyboard collage brush
- Creating, saving and using a watermark
- Making a before-and-after
- Interesting way to show text on a photo reverse writing
- Grids tutorial gridlines guides
- Adding a scanned signature to a photo name watermark
- How to make a star shape pointed
- Resetting preferences: Photoshop CC photoshop creative cloud
- Posting photos for critique on focus and noise
- Black boxes and other weird behaviour in Photoshop graphics processor drawing mode basic preferences performance
- Grabbing a 700 x 700 pixel 100% crop closeup close up
- Resetting tools reset tool
- FAQ: "Help! My Raw files won’t open!" dng
- Dealing with banding
- Critiquing sharpness focus unsharp mask
- Patch Tool Video healing
- Video: Clone and Patch Tools
- Video: Magic Fairy Dust sparkle
- Video: Batch-saving digital files (Photoshop) image processor
- Video: Batch-saving digital files (Elements) process multiple files
- CMYK PDF Video (Adobe InDesign and Acrobat) graphic design text vectors pantone
- Video: Learn Liquify by playing
- Video: Using my Wacom tablet graphics tablet
- Video: Make your own white balance sheet expodisk expodisc grey card 18% gray card
- Video: Using the Tab key Alt-tab Option-tab switching cmd-tab, ctrl-tab
- Video: Introduction to Adobe Bridge culling rating batch
- Video: Converting raw files to DNG format adobe dng digital negative
- Video: FastStone Image Viewer bridge
- Video: Take control of your files bridge
- Video: All about jpeg files jpg files compression
- Video: Basics of pixel layers
- Video: Setting up your workspace (PS & PSE)
- Video: Fun with rainbows
- If it doesn’t rock, don’t show it! focus sharpness client customer
- Examining the complexities of an ACR workflow camera raw bridge
- The role of global edits in post-processing
- Order of layers for complex pixel edits liquify headswap perspective skin smoothing straighten
- How aggressively can I crop? cropping megapixels printing
- Replacing a raw edit in a PSD swap switch replace
- Batch editing in Photoshop – a flawed premise? global local actions
- What is "clean processing"? clean edit
- Cloning in the workflow when to clone tool clone stamp tool
- Opening jpeg files in ACR (Elements) PSE camera raw jpg
- A Pinterest idea for skintones
- Obtaining a "before" version of a raw edit in ACR camera raw
- There’s no such thing as a SOOC raw photo!
- Selective sharpening? eyes
- Those family snaps
- Batch processing in ACR batch editing camera raw
- Opening jpeg files in ACR (Photoshop) jpgs camera raw
- Does white balance affect raw file quality?
- Great little disk cataloguer for PC cd dvd
- Multiple images in one PSD black-and-white
- Remini blur blurry
- What to do with your memory card after a file corruption incident recovery
- Tutorial: Preparing photos to fit in a locket tiny print oval
- The Creativity Class creativity artistic creative training course education
- The Advanced Black-and-White Class black and white training course education
- Creating an animated gif in Photoshop GIF file animation before after
- Why can't I save as jpeg? save as copy file format psd tiff
- Always embed the ICC profile when saving ikea untagged color profile
- Finding the perfect resolution for scanned photos scanning dust scratches ppi resolution 300 1200 action restoration
- There is only ONE correct edit per raw file raw processing raw editing psd camera raw lightroom
- Topaz Sharpen AI artificial intelligence remini
- Bridge star ratings without the Ctrl key control command cmd