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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”
Color calibrating your computer screen
- Understanding the importance of calibration
- Using a color checker [workstation for color balancing in PEPS?]
Lightroom
- Managing your Lightroom files, backing up
- Importing Lightroom databases from an external drive
- Backing up Lightroom data
- Image adjustment tools; Photoshop tools
Photoshop
- Using Bridge to manage image files
- RAW processing in Photoshop
- Understanding and managing .psd, .jpg, and .tif files
- File naming conventions for single image iterations
- Image adjustments in Photoshop
- Output sharpening for a particular paper size and type
Printing 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
Printing workflow
- Tune up your images on your own color-balanced computer
- Transfer images to a “photo workstation”
- Ensure you are working in the proper color space
- Make any necessary micro-adjustments to color or contrast based on the color-corrected photo workstation monitor
- Insure your image is appropriately scaled, optimal DPI
- Load appropriate printing profiles
- Use supplied papers or your own individual paper
- Print directly from the photo workstation to selected Epson printer
- Judging print quality, making adjustments