Well, not for dummies—but for non-professional photographers, amateurs, or prosumers (as you like). This article represents my evolving understanding of the options you have during raw conversion with ACR 3.1, and during post-processing in Photoshop CS2 (following nearly 3 years of shooting JPEG, ignoring colour management, and tinkering with Photoshop 7). I like a "one product does it all" solution. I descibe a workflow that will hopefully make sense for most images—assuming that like me you want to work on one at a time, to edit once, and your interest is in capturing what's there and not "faking it". I'll make changes as I discover what does or doesn't work, and acquire new knowledge (maybe even skill?). Your feedback and suggestions would be much appreciated. This is a fairly long article, but there's a graphic summary at the end!
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I've already looked at raw ability in Photoshop CS2, together with image editing features for post-processing. The question is should I upgrade to CS2 (from Photoshop 7 and Elements 3) when my Nikon D70 arrives, or spend similar money on Nikon Capture instead. How do they broadly compare in terms of features? At this point I'm not interested in technical subtleties, just a broad feature run-down for Joe Average.
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Up to this point, because I didn't know better, I've done my image post-processing in 8-bit mode. What does this mean, and how does it affect the quality of the image? What software do I need to edit in a 16-bit workspace? Here are the results of my investigation of these questions...
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I'm curious; as a fellow amateur photographer, how do you use Photoshop to improve the images from your digital camera? Or do you not need to? Here is a workflow of the basic image adjustments that I will often try, based on tips gleaned from sites like TrekEarth and from reading a (heavy-going) book by Martin Evening...
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If you've recorded to DVD+RW using a consumer DVD recorder, how can you extract the .VOB files and edit video and audio on the Mac?
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