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Photoshop gets us to our Black and White Roots
            One thing the Photoshop revolution has done is help us discover our black and white photography roots. For most photographers we are awed by a crisp and finely tuned black and white image where our attention is drawn to the detail and composition of the work. Photoshop makes this easy for us to do this again without the sting of fixer in our noses or trying to even find black and film and a film camera.
            However as with anything dealing with Photoshop there is a number of ways to do this. The first being the lowest common detonator of converting the image to Grayscale. While still touted by some teachers it really doesn’t give a very good rendering of the intent of black and white. The image comes across as flat because all Photoshop is doing is just unsaturating the colors. To try this pick an image and...

Looking for the Easy Button

A lot of my emails about Photoshop seems to start with the
same question, “Is there  A. (an easy
way) or  B. (a one click way) to do
something”. While my current tag is about the only Easy Button I have found
($4.99 at Staples) there can be some easy buttons found in Photoshop.

One is found in both Levels and Curves which can be used for
color corrections. These are the eye droppers for setting the white and black
points. But first it works best if you set the sample size for the Eyedropper
Tool on the tool bar. By default the sample is set for point sample which mean
just one pixel. While fine for graphic designers, we as photographers work in
blended tones so we need to change this to 3x3 for small images or 5x5 for
larger images. Now when you use any tool that samples it will be using this
sample size.

So back to the eyedroppers in Curves and Levels for setting
black and...

An overlooked feature of Photoshop CS 2 and CS 3 is Bridge. For many they view this as just an image viewer program but it is so much more.  I will be the first to say that the first (and even the second) version of Bridge were a bit clunky. However most of the problems were corrected in CS 3 and it was vastly improved on.But let’s see just how much more Bridge can do for photographers with just workflow. Once Bridge is installed, when you hook up your camera to the computer or just put your camera card in a card reader Bridge should pop up asking if you would like some help downloading the files. I say yes and when the viewer comes up with the images I go a bit further with what I want Bridge to do. First I download the files...

Getting Smart with Smart Objects

For this article I am going to talk to just those with
Photoshop CS2 and CS3. Not that there is anything wrong with other PS and
Elements users but this is all about something found in CS2 and CS3 which is a
major change and a great upgrade called Smart Objects.

What are Smart Objects? Image adding a special layer which
is so flexible that not only you can go back and readjust filters and effects
settings but if you wanted to do adjustments to the original image it is just a
quick mouse click, do your corrections, and then back to the image with the
Smart Object layer with all of your adjustments in place along with your new
corrections. And to blow your mind even more you can replace the image on this
layer with a new image and all the adjustments are still in place. Think about
that with a wedding album template. You could come up with a really compucated
page with lots of images, full pages spreads, black and white images with drop
shadows and boarders. Then just...