Photoshop and Leopard

Posted on November 5th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Photo, Teaching, OSX, Photoshop.

Having a great time with Leopard… Quicklook is amazing (you can see a full-screen look at any document/photo/etc without opening any application…look at a Word doc without opening Word, see a photo preview instantly by clicking the space bar!).

Anyway, I still use Photoshop CS1, since Aperture, I’m more about workflow than the newer gadgets in Photoshop… anyway, if it helps anyone else:
After doing a clean install of CS1 I wanted to get my work spaces back and couldn’t find them in the Photoshop folder with the other settings… They turn out to be in your User folder, then Library, then Preferences and you’ll see a number of those prefs starting with ‘Adobe’ near the top of your list.

Moving those from my previous folder (you did back up, didn’t you??!) to the new folder brought back my beloved Work Spaces.

Everything is running much faster under Leopard and there are only a very few minor bugs (and OKI hasn’t put out new drivers for my office printer yet).

I’m really enjoying it!

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Learn with Ken: Cameras, Workflow, Photoshop

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal, Skills, Equipment, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Photoshop.

Here’s what’s next if you enjoy learning from Ken… These classes are great—you don’t have to leave the office, just use the ‘net and take an hour to update your skills.

Through the Eli Research Audio Educator system, I’m teaching 3 classes:

Digital Camera Class (What to buy, what features matter, how to save money… everything for buying and understanding the important features of digital cameras)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 **Next Wednesday!
11:00 am ET
Info and signup HERE

(We’ll cover important tips… like taking your lens cap off ;-)

Digital Workflow Class (What to do with all of those photos you have! Find them fast, keep it simple and safe with backups, etc)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
11:00 am ET
Info and signup HERE

Next Step in Photoshop (The distilled tips I have for working on photos)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
1 pm ET
e-mail me for info… it’s not online yet.

•••Discount for Clients•••
I was able to get the Audio Educator folks to give my clients a $20 discount.
Please contact me if you are a client and I’ll send you the code.

Also, the prices are per location—you use a speakerphone for the audio and then watch on the internet… so if you have several people attending, or your whole office, it’s a pretty good deal. And I do a Q&A at the end, so you can ask your questions live.

Please shout with questions!

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Great Wedding & Portrait Site

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Skills, Photo, Teaching, PhotoJava, Photoshop.

Jess Strickland is an amazing shooter and friends with Gary Fong (she just shot Gary’s wedding).
Check out her site for a few things:
Beautiful presentation
Great shots
Her ’special sauce’ the get the saturated, contrasty look in photos
and she’s just plain nice…
Her site is HERE

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Like Father Like Son…Ansel Adams

Posted on August 16th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Apple, Skills, Photo, Rochester NY, Photoshop, Famous People.


Ansel Adam’s son Michael visited the Eastman House and it was a real treat. He told the stories of being on photo trips with Ansel and how images like Moonrise (above).
Now the ‘like father, like son’ comment is funny, as Michael is a doctor who rarely takes photographs. BUT he really had Ansel’s, kind spirit and humor.

The top question Michael gets asked? “What would Ansel think about digital photography ?” Michael suggests that Ansel would have loved digital photography and near to his death, Ansel was being give Apple computers by Steve Jobs, which he loved.

It makes sense that AA would have embraced digital since many of his final prints are worlds away from the look of the raw negative. Ansel said that ‘the negative is the score and the print is the performance’. That’s well shown by many of AA’s printing notes on display with the show… Do you wonder how he printed the Moonrise photo? The show even has his hand-written notes on what areas to dodge and burn as well as examples of how the straight print would have looked.

Congratulations to GEH for mounting this great exhibition (all of which comes from GEH’s own archive!) and thanks to Dr. Adams and his wife for the wonderful stories and visit. Show runs through September 3rd 2007… so go soon. Info HERE

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Remember ‘Reselect’

Posted on May 24th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photoshop.

Quick Photoshop Selection Tip:

If you are like me and accidentally goof up a selection you’ve just made (you have a nice selection and when adding to it, you make it disappear, or you deselect it and need it again later)… remember that under the ‘Selection’ menu you can choose ‘Reselect’.

If you really love a selection that you might need later, you can choose to save it from the Select menu as well…and then load it anytime you need.

Remember to use you key combos too, or the tool option to ‘Add to’ or ‘Subtract from’ your selection… you don’t have to get the selection perfect the first time!

Have a great day!

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Easier to Ask Forgiveness… In Photoshop

Posted on May 10th, 2007 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Photoshop.

I’ve been retouching some images lately in Photoshop and the way I work reminds me of the adage ‘It’s often easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission’.

What does that have to do with Photoshop? Where’s the ‘forgiveness’ tool?

Well, it’s called the ‘History Brush’ and the way it plays out is that it’s often easier to do a quick and dirty retouching (get that Exit sign out from behind the subject’s head) and not worry too much about if you spill the retouching over onto the subject themselves.

They use your History Brush, with a small brush size and ‘history back’ over the subject to clean up the mess you left.

That’s much faster than being meticulous in your retouch or making the perfect selection around an object.

Give it a try. And remember that you can set the History point anywhere in your History palette list, so click on the box next to the History state that was right before your sloppy retouch.

Happy Sloppy Retouching!

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