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Great resource: Photoshop TV

Ok, while I suspect no one reads this thing, I am going to continue posting content - in hopes that one day my readership on this blog will number more than two.

Digital Workflow.

Here’s the way I do things, though I am working on it so it’s a bit in a state of flux.

1. Import images from CF card. Place them in specific folder

2. Open folder in Adobe Bridge, cull all the crap.

3. Batch Rename to reflect a series of files with meaningful names - usually specific to place and date - example Vancouver_Oct 22 2005_001.cr2

4. Burn images to CD

5. Create a WORKING IMAGES subfolder

6. Open specific image

7. Make exposure adjustments

8. Levels Adjustment

9. Contrast adjustment via Curves

10. Colour corrections.

11. Any specific post work that needs doing - cloning out dust, dodging, burning, etc.

12. Save image in WORKING FILES

13. Duplicate Image and crop.

14. Sharpen. I always sharpen last. These days I sharpen using CS2’s Smart Sharpen, but also use an unsharp mask on the lightness channel in LAB mode as occasion warrants it.

15. For greyscale and duotone conversions I use FredMiranda’s excellent BW Workflow plugin available for a song at fredmiranda.com

Any questions?

Apple has just released it’s pro-version of the much-flogged iPhoto. This is not an answer to Photoshop but is certainly a rival to Camera Raw, the PS plugin that processed RAW files. Well worth taking a look at, and a number of features absolutely thrill me. It comes with a professional price tage, about $600CDN and it’s system requirements are beyond even my first generation G5 workstation. Though it’ll work fine in my PowerBook. Well worth watching the online demo. Thanks to Jay Kerr for giving me the heads up, and from whom I stole the apple promo image.