Photoshop - Beyond Camera RAW

Resources

Photoshop GPT - Ask it a specific question about Photoshop and get a good answer

Photoshop Training Channel - Video Tutorials, there are many others.

Beyond the Rule of Thirds - An old lecture on photographic composition, really good!

Lazy Nezumi Pro - A Photoshop plug in for those of us with shaky hands. It works better than the one built into Photoshop It can be used on top of Photoshop’s feature for this.

Colors

We use the RGB color space. Monitors are RGB devices.

Each pixel ranges from 0 to 255 in all three colors

0 = none of that color

255 = the maximum amount of that color

The more different RGB values are the more saturated the color is.

The closer RGB are to being the same the less saturated the color is.

Printers use CMYK - Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black The driver does the conversion for you.

Layers

With layers you do not affect the original image. They let you make changes that you can later change or delete.

Name your layers! - Click on the layer name to make it editable.

You will not remember what effect the layer has otherwise.

Filters

Camera RAW Filter allows you to use this interface on images that are not RAW files. JPG’s TIFF’d etc.

It is strongly suggested that you copy your layer and right click on it to convert the layer to a smart object before you do so. This allows you to edit these changes later instead of applying the to your image directly.

Channels

Red, green, & blue combine to make up your image.

“Alpha Channels” = Selections = Masks