| 7 | March 28 |

• IN class by Junia Mortimer
• Camera RAW and Photoshop stuff (see below)
• Visualizing Color
• work on Project #3 in class
for next week:
•10 or more printed images from Project #3 that describe the experience of the space/place you chose to photograph

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VISUALIZING COLOR: 
• Online - How well do you see color? Hue Test
• Color Matters: How computers see color 
• Psychology of Color
• Color Perception
• What is Hue? 
• Slideshow - how light effects color

VISUALIZING SPACE AND EXPOSURE:
• Cameras vs. the Human Eye 

DIGITAL CAMERA SETTINGS:
• LINK to useful Nikon color settings information
• LINK to useful Canon using your camera settings

WHITE BALANCE:

• LINK: Understanding White Balance
• Whibal - white balance card
• X-rite Color Checker - uses software to create color profiles for specific lighting situations

ADOBE BRIDGE:
What is Adobe Bridge? 

LIGHTROOM:
Adobe Website

CAMERA RAW:
• Why should you use Camera RAW?  
• What is Camera RAW
• Image size + Bit Depth
• Histograms + Histograms
• What is Chromatic Aberration

• Working with the Lens Correction Filter

• Using the Adaptive Wide Angle Filter in CS6 

• Learn more about Image size

USING PHOTOSHOP:

    • Layers and History Panel

    • Curves

    • Working with Layers + rudimentary masks
    • Blending modes
    • Overlay for contrast (quick method)
    • Luminosity Mask for contrast (using channels)
    • Mulitply and Screen modes
    • Burning and Dodging (shaping) using an Overlay layer
    • Using a B&W Layer to create a B&W image

    • Using Guides and Grids
    • Cropping a file
    • Resizing a file

• Creating Panoramas with Photomerge  

• VIDEO: Adobe TV - using masks to replace the sky
• LINK: Using the "Refine Edge" panel to make fine selections such as hair
• VIDEO: Content Aware Move/Fill
• VIDEO: Removing unwanted details with Content Aware
• VIDEO: Using the Color Range command to make selections
• VIDEO: Using the Quick Selection tool
• Working with Layers + rudimentary masks
• Advanced: Deke's Top 40 about layers  
• Using Masks in CS6 lynda.com video
• Making really tricky selections like hair (PDF)  

• VIDEO: Clone tool
• VIDEO: Healing brush tool
• VIDEO: Using Threshold to find white and black points for color correcting

• Advanced Technique: Luminance Blending 
• Advanced Technique: Smart Objects

    • Sharpening - Beginner: Unsharp Mask
    • Sharpening - Advanced: High Pass Filter and Soft Proofing
    • Sharpening - Advanced: Deke's Photoshop Top 40 Sharpening video 

DIGITAL PRINTING:

• Digital printing - paper information
     • LINK: How to preview your print + print settings