ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS- P1

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS- P1: In a matter of a few short years,the underwater digital camerawent from a novelty item to thepredominant method for takingunderwater pictures. Never before hasa technology advanced so rapidly.Thanks to digital, though, underwaterphotography has evolved into a shootto-edit process.
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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS- P1 Left—In the main printer menu, you should set the media type, the color mode, and check ink levels. If you try the Auto- matic mode and are dissatisfied with the print quality, try selecting the Custom set- ting. It has a submenu that will offer more advanced options. Below—When you are in the Custom or Advanced printing menu, you are given controls for image quality, printer speed, color adjustments, contrast, and saturation controls. Once you have a test print that looks good, save the settings to a file name that best describes the type of print job.210 ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS GAMUT WARNINGIf you have a colorful image that is giving you fits when you try to print it,then you just might be out of gamut. Many very colorful images look great onyour RGB monitor—but not when they come off your printer. The GamutWarning can be turned on by going toView>Gamut Warning or pressing the MANY VERY COLORFUL IMAGES LOOK GREATShift+Ctrl/Cmd+Y key combination ON YOUR RGB MONITOR—BUT NOT WHENto show areas that will be difficult to THEY COME OFF YOUR PRINTER.print. The out-of-gamut areas of theimage will be indicated by the color that you have preselected in the PhotoshopPreferences>Transparency & Gamut section. If the image you wish to print indicates a large out-of-gamut area, then justconvert it to CMYK, and Photoshop will fix the problem during the conver-sion. When you convert the file back to RGB, the image will look the same butshould print better. PHOTOGRAPHIC EDGES AND FRAMINGIn our first book, Digital Imaging for the Underwater Photographer, we provid-ed an extensive discussion on the File>Automate>Package Printing command.This function allows you to select from several multi-print formats, and loadeither one or several images on a page. This program is really great, but thereare even more options available with Photoshop-compatible third-party print-ing plug-ins. Jump Plug-ins. Many of the printing plug-ins that are available are jumpplug-ins. When a jump plug-in is selected, Photoshop is minimized, and thesevery large and memory-intensive programs process and prepare your images forcreative printing output. More Plug-ins. To really appreciate how much these programs have tooffer photographers, pick up a copy of our book, Plug-ins for Adobe® Pho-toshop®, and read the chapter on output. Also, be sure to visit www.AutoFX.com for information on the DreamSuite and Photographic Edges plug-in,or go to www.extensis.com to learn more about Photo Frame. These threeprograms combined have over 10,000 different formats for your printingoptions. We’ve provided a few examples of some of the effects you can achieve on thefollowing pages. OUTPUT OPTIONS 211Top—When we turned the Gamut Warning on, we found that there were colors that might notcorrectly display on output devices like printers. Above—The problem can easily be solved bygoing to the Mode command at the top of the editing screen and converting to CMYK to changethe color display of the image. You can then print the CMYK file directly to a printer or con-vert it back to RGB to print.212 ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERSWhen using the AutoFX Photo-graphic Edges plug-in, you cancopy and paste images into specialpremade templates. The programmasks and then feathers the selec-tion for quick and easy creativeprint output. The images can alsobe scaled, rotated, and flipped in-side these templates. OUTPUT OPTIONS 213Top—This film scan image was imported into Photoshop, then the AutoFX DreamSuite plug-in was applied. When the image was pasted into the 21/4 film template, it automatically creat-ed a negative and positive of the image and placed them side by side. Above—You can selectfrom thousands of image frames when you load the onOne Image Frame plug-in. This plug-increates a layer frame with a mask and allows you full blending control over the frame’s edges.214 ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® FOR UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS DIGITAL SLIDE SHOWSA very popular method of presenting images today is with a computer-drivenslide show program like ProShow Gold from www.photodex.com. These pro-grams enable you to take your still images, put them on a timeline, add transi-tions, music, narration, and then burn a DVD so you can present them on aTV screen or video projector. These programs make easy work of replacing theol’ slide projector shows. The downside to computer-driven shows is that the large files used in thepresentations can bog down the computer and cause it to run slow. The key isnot using your full-resolution files, but rather to scale your images to match therequired output resolution. Since the most common image size today for out-put from a computer is 1024x768, we highly recommend that you create a newslide show image directory called 1024. Resize Your Files. Create an Action that will resize your image down to awidth of 1024 pixels and save it as a JPEG file directly into the new 1024 direc-tory. Run the Action on a second file, and recheck its file size. If everything isalright, then go to the File> ...