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PCCI: Adobe Photoshop for Photographers, Day 1

Yes-yes-yo! It will be the first day of my three-day workshop at Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI) on Adobe Photoshop for Photographers. Our instructor is Mr. Jun Miranda, one of the two certified Adobe Instructors in the country. The other instructor is also one of the instructors of PCCI.

Now, just to list my notes...

ADOBE BRIDGE
* A way of organizing photographs.
* Alt+G, to access copyright.
* Shows metadata--file properties, IPTC, camera data (EXIF), camera raw.
* CTRL-T, hide temporarily file information.
* CTRL-K, show the preferences window.

* SHIFT-ALT-CTRL, to define keyboard shortcuts.

* Mandatory keyboard shortcut (user-defined)
CTRL
FUNC
* Stored in Keyboard Shortcuts>Preset.

* To create a new document preset: New File, Adjust Settings, and Save Preset.

* To create a tool preset, drop down on the upper left and Save Tool. To arrange the presets, use Preset Manager.

CAMERA RAW WORKFLOW
a) Shoot in Camera Raw
b) Basic retouching in Camera Raw
c) Cleaning and further retouching in Photoshop
d) Local Tonal and/or Color Corrections
e) Sharpening
f) Saving Format

Sharpening and Saving Format depends on output medium (targetting).

* For Camera Raw, every channel is 12-bit (4096 bits); in JPEG, it is converted to 256 (8-bit).
* Exporting Camera Raw to Photoshop is non-destructive as a copy of the Raw file is made.

PHOTOSHOP WORKFLOW
a) Shoot in JPEG
b) Global tonal adjustment in Photoshop
. . .
c) Global color corrections

JPEG Artifacts is when an image becomes blocky as quality diminishes; high compression loses color information.

* CROPPING. If you have several images and you want to have the same image size, in one picture, adjust setting, click "Front Image". You may now crop the other images using the "Front Image's" setting.

* FILTER. Filter>Distort>Lens Correction
Barrel
Perspective
Vignette

* If a big image is copied to a smaller canvass, press SHIFT while dragging to new canvass. Press CTRL-T (free transform) and CTRL-0 (to view whole image on its window). To adjust the new image, press ALT-SHIFT while dragging the corner of the image to fit the smaller-sized canvass.

* TRANFORM. Transform cannot be used to a Background. Double click the Background to change it to a Layer.

* To correct skewness of an image, use Free Transform. So that only one side would move, press CTRL while dragging the corner of the image to correct.

* To straighten a skewed image, use Measurement Tool then Rotate Arbitrary.

* Press CTRL-SHIFT-ALT to adjust skewness on both sides of the image at the same time.

After the training, walked my way to the corner of Pasay Road and Pasong Tamo. Went to Waltermart to buy a few items.


It is there (Waltermart) where I saw the Tsoko Nut Batirol. When we had SSEAYP delegates as guests, I was supposed to treat them there. So, I had my very late merienda of ensaymada and hot chocolate. c",)

posted by ~GFA~ @ 4/23/2007 07:22:00 PM