Grasping the fundamentals of how to adjust and correct digital color images to give them a rich and real look can be daunting. In Photoshop CS4: Color Correction, digital imaging expert Taz Tally explains how to quickly evaluate whether an image needs a color correction or adjustment. He shows how to set up a monitor to work correctly with Photoshop, and demonstrates how to set color workflow preferences. Designers, production staff, and photographers will discover quick and accurate evaluation and correction techniques to speed up their workflow in the fast-paced production environment. Exercise files accompany the course.

Table Of Contents:

01. Setting Up Photoshop For Color Correction:

Setting color workflow preferences
Managing your memory for optimization
Assigning color settings
Understanding color tools
Accessing color correction tools with the keyboard
Customizing the color workspace
Mastering rules of engagement and keyboard shortcuts
Navigating around images
Saving time with keyboard shortcuts

02. Managing Images With Bridge:

Understanding the Bridge interface
Using batch rename
Adding copyrights and other metadata
Adding shortcuts to Bridge favorites
Customizing Bridge preferences
Navigating files and accessing metadata
Sorting and labeling images

03. Color Image Fundamentals:

Understanding pixel brick building blocks
No such thing as color
Building block channels
Understanding bit depth and grayscale
Understanding bit depth and color
Measuring RGB
Measuring CMYK
Exploring LAB
RGB vs. CMYK corrections
Understanding the Histogram's display of color
Understanding neutralization

04. The Evaluation Process: Physical, Visual, Graphics, Numeric:

Making visual evaluations and judgments
Understanding histograms
Going into details with histograms
Using numeric evaluation for highlights and neutrals
Using numeric evaluation for skin tones and complex images

05. Evaluating And Fixing Physical Characteristics:

Adjusting dimensions, resolution, and modes
Straightening your image
Cropping your image
Finding and evaluating patterns: noise, posterization, and screens

06. Evaluating And Correcting Color:

Using master channel histograms
Using individual channel histograms
Highlights with info and color sampler
Identifying and correcting shadows
Finding and using neutrals
Evaluating and correcting skin tones
Controlling brightness, contrast, and saturation

07. Special Topics:

Presetting white balance
Customizing white balance
Target-based correction
Sharpening in RGB
Sharpening in LAB
Understanding white balance

08. Putting It All Together:

Working through color correction

09. Target-Based Corrections:

Introducing target-based corrections
Applying two-step target-based corrections
Applying multi-step target-based corrections
Saving Curves settings

10. Sample Color Correction Projects:

Adding keyboard shortcuts
Histogram correction
Channel adjustments
Skin tones: Black-and-white clipping points
Skin tones: Cast shadows
Skin tones: Babies
Neutrals and potential neutrals
Clouds, snow, ice, and land
Flat images
Underwater images
Sacrifices
Image within image: Snow and sky
Image within image: Sunrise and mountains
Weird color casts
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