Photoshop View Print Size

March 20, 2011 By 9 Comments

Photoshop has many tricks, but automatically adjusting for the actual screen ppi (pixels per inch) to display accurate print dimensions is not one of them. You need to train the old dog for this new trick. It is quite straight forward and from that point on, when you choose “View/Print Size” it will display the actual size. Of course large print sizes may not fit the screen but you will get a good sense of proportion.

This discrepancy has two sources. The first one is Adobe settings for units which uses 72 ppi for the screen resolution although [Read more...]

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A New Use for X-Rite Passport ColorChecker

January 21, 2011 By 2 Comments

X-Rite Passport ColorChecker has been helping me for a while now and I am very pleased with its performance as a color managed workflow tool. I use it indoor or outside shoots and can quickly balance the white value and apply calibrated camera profile to the images. The results are richer and truer colors. So far, nothing new, many readers know that much.

I also use an Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner to acquire scanned photographs or to directly capture images of objects, like flowers. When I capture an image via the scanner, I am not as sure of the colors as I am when the image comes from my camera. I thought the ColorChecker might come in handy and I was right. Although its use is not as automated, nor is it necessarily sanctioned by X-Rite, as it is when used with a camera, it certainly makes sense to use it in the scanning workflow. [Read more...]

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From “Scene” to “Seen”

September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Digital photography has many more user controllable variables compared to the film. A good understanding of the variables and how to make the critical choices will reward the photographer. I used this slide presentation for a presentation I made at the Photographic Society of Rhode Island on September 21, 2010. It will make more sense to the people who were there to listen to the expanded talking points.

When viewing the presentation, advance by clicking inside the slide. You can maximize the presentation by clicking on the maximize icon, far right on the navigation bar.

Digital Workflow

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Photoshop Is a Girl’s Best Friend

July 15, 2010 By 2 Comments

You may or may not have made it to my presentation at the NECCC 2010 conference in Amherst. The presentation titled as this post’s title focused on a workflow to produce plausible and pleasing presentations of model and portraiture photography. The NECCC Speaker Notes contains a 4-page write up of the presentation, but due to space limitations much of the content and many of the photographs and other images had to be eliminated. [Read more...]

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Photoshop Is A Girl’s Best Friend
Part III Retouching the Portrait

July 15, 2010 By 2 Comments

Let’s start by viewing a short video, all the way to the end. Click on the following link and watch the video before moving on to the section that follows.

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