Organizing your digital life
- Creating a secure “vault” [hard-drive or cloud storage]
- File organization and back-up strategies
- Shooting RAW, import strategies, converting to DNG
- File naming conventions
- Managing your “working files”
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Color calibrating your computer screen
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- Understanding the importance of calibration
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- Using a color checker [workstation for color balancing in PEPS?]
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Lightroom
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- Managing your Lightroom files, backing
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- up
- Importing Lightroom databases from an external
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- drive
- Backing up Lightroom
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- data
- Image adjustment tools; Photoshop tools
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Photoshop
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- Using Bridge to manage image
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- files
- RAW processing in
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- Photoshop
- Understanding and managing .psd, .jpg, and .tif
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- files
- File naming conventions for single image
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- iterations
- Image adjustments in
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- Photoshop
- Output sharpening for a particular paper size and type
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Printing
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concepts
- Understanding pixels, up- and down-sizing, DPI, etc. •
- Understanding colorspace: ProColor recommended •
- Papers: understanding paper types, sizes, archival issues, etc. •
- Paper printing profiles: understanding and loading •
- Understanding visual differences between screen and paper-print images •
- Basics of printer operation
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Printing
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workflow
- Tune up your images on your own color-balanced
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- computer
- Transfer images to a “photo
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- workstation”
- Ensure you are working in the proper color
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- space
- Make any necessary micro-adjustments to color or contrast based on the color-corrected
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- photo workstation
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- monitor
- Insure your image is appropriately scaled, optimal
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- DPI
- Load appropriate printing
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- profiles
- Use supplied papers or your own individual
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- paper
- Print directly from the photo workstation to selected Epson
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- printer
- Judging print quality, making adjustments