Intermediate Lessons - To assist in the creation of a Master File:
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Lesson Forty - Contrast Mask
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Technique for creating a contrast mask. Duplicate background layer,
desaturate, invert, change mode to overlay, Gaussian blur 5 - 30, change
layer opacity to taste.
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Lesson Forty One - Advanced Masking Technique
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Advanced Masking Exercise: Combine different exposures of the same image with a complicated sky (trees).
1. Auto Align.
2. Darker image on top.
3. Add a layer mask to the darker image.
4. Click on the background (lower) layer and do (Ctrl-A) to select all and then (Ctrl-C) to copy it.
5. Alt-Click on the layer mask of the upper layer (darker image).
6. Paste (Ctrl-V) then “Select - Deselect” to remove marching ants.
7. Image - Adjust - Curves. Pull the ends of the curve directly in.
8. Select a black brush and fill in the foreground of the mask with black.
9. View the image, zoom into the trees and use “Select and Mask” to fine tune the transition.
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Lesson Forty Two
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1. Useful way to use a Hue Saturation Adjustment Layer to adjust/fix/change colors.
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Lesson Forty Three
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1. Emulate a Color Intensifier (Film camera filter).
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Lesson Forty Four
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1. Darken corners of an image; "Filter - Lens Correction".
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Lesson Forty Five
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1. Focus Stacking: Auto blend multiple images for great depth-of-field: Carefully review the final image.
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Lesson Forty Six - Create a Panorama (Part 1)
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1. Creating Panoramas (Via selections in Bridge).
2. How to use “Edit - Transform”.
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Lesson Forty Seven - Create a Panorama (Part 2)
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1. Recognize a lens vignette issue and correct for it.
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Lesson Forty Eight
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Even out sky polarization issues.
1. Select sky with “Select - Color Range”.
2. Copy sky to new layer using (Ctrl-J).
3. Desaturate the new layer; Image - Adjust - Desaturate.
4. Invert the new layer (Ctrl-I).
5. Change the blend mode to “Soft Light” or “Overlay”.
6. Adjust layer opacity to taste.
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Intermediate Lessons - To assist in the creation of an Output File:
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Lesson Forty Nine
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1. Creating and using Actions: I.E. Create an action to resize horizontal master files for output to the internet.
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Lesson Fifty - Sharpening (Part 1)
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Lesson Fifty One - Sharpening (Part 2)
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Lesson Fifty Two - Sharpening (Part 3)
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1. Masking a sharpened area.
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Lesson Fifty Three - Soft Proofing
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1. Get profile from lab.
2. Put it in the appropriate location.
3. Soft proofing.
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