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Chapter 1 The Organizer managing photos using the organizer |
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1 | (46) |
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2 | (4) |
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Backing Up Your Photos to a Disc or Hard Drive |
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6 | (2) |
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Importing Photos from Your Scanner |
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8 | (1) |
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Changing the Size of Your Photo Thumbnails |
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9 | (1) |
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Seeing Full-Screen Previews |
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10 | (2) |
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Sorting Photos by Date and Viewing Filenames |
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12 | (1) |
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Change the Time & Date of Your Photos (Great, If You Travel) |
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13 | (1) |
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Finding Photos Fast by Their Month & Year |
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14 | (1) |
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Smart Tags and Enhanced Searching |
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15 | (2) |
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Tagging Your Photos (with Keyword Tags) |
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17 | (3) |
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20 | (1) |
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Assigning Multiple Tags to One Photo |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (3) |
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Albums: It's How You Put Photos in Order One by One |
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25 | (1) |
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Choosing Your Own Icons for Keyword Tags |
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26 | (1) |
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Deleting Keyword Tags or Albums |
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27 | (1) |
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Seeing Your Photo's Metadata (EXIF Info) |
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28 | (1) |
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Adding Your Own Info to Photos |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (3) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (3) |
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Reducing Clutter by Stacking Your Photos |
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39 | (2) |
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Places: Viewing Your Photos on a Map |
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41 | (3) |
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44 | (3) |
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Chapter 2 Raw and Un-Kutt the essentials of camera raw |
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47 | (26) |
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Opening Your Photos into Camera Raw |
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48 | (2) |
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Miss the JPEG Look? Try Applying a Camera Profile |
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50 | (2) |
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The Essential Adjustments: White Balance |
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52 | (4) |
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Seeing a Before/After in Camera Raw |
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56 | (2) |
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Letting Camera Raw Auto-Correct Your Photos |
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58 | (3) |
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My Editing Your Images Cheat Sheet |
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61 | (1) |
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Setting Your White Point and Black Point |
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62 | (2) |
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Adjusting the Overall Brightness |
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64 | (2) |
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66 | (1) |
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Dealing with Highlight Problems (Clipping) |
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67 | (2) |
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Opening Up the Shadows (Like "Fill Light" on a Slider) |
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69 | (1) |
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Putting It All Together (A Quick Start-to-Finish Tweak) |
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70 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Beyond the Reach camera raw---beyond the basics |
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73 | (32) |
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Editing Multiple Photos at Once |
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74 | (2) |
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Bring Out Detail and Texture Using Clarity |
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76 | (2) |
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Making Your Colors More Vibrant |
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78 | (1) |
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79 | (5) |
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Reducing Noise in Noisy Photos |
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84 | (3) |
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Removing Red Eye in Camera Raw |
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87 | (2) |
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The Trick for Expanding the Range of Your Photos |
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89 | (6) |
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Black & White Conversions in Camera Raw |
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95 | (3) |
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Cropping and Straightening |
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98 | (4) |
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The Advantages of Adobe's DNG Format for RAW Photos |
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102 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Scream of the Crop how to resize and crop photos |
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105 | (32) |
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106 | (4) |
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Auto-Cropping to Standard Sizes |
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110 | (2) |
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Cropping to an Exact Custom Size |
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112 | (3) |
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115 | (3) |
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Fixing Problems with Perspective Crop |
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118 | (2) |
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Using the Crop Tool to Add More Canvas Area |
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120 | (2) |
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Auto-Cropping Gang-Scanned Photos |
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122 | (1) |
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Straightening Photos with the Straighten Tool |
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123 | (2) |
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125 | (3) |
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Resizing and How to Reach Those Hidden Free Transform Handles |
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128 | (1) |
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Making Your Photos Smaller (Downsizing) |
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129 | (2) |
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Automated Saving and Resizing |
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131 | (2) |
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Resizing Just Parts of Your Image Using the Recompose Tool |
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133 | (4) |
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Chapter 5 Radio Edit which mode do I use: quick, guided, or expert? |
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137 | (16) |
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Using Instant Fix to Quickly Edit Your Photos |
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138 | (2) |
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Photo Quick Fix in Quick Mode |
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140 | (4) |
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Special Effects in Guided Mode (the Only Time to Use It) |
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144 | (4) |
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A Quick Look at Expert Mode (It's Not Just for Experts!) |
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148 | (5) |
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Chapter 6 Layers of Light working with layers |
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153 | (36) |
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154 | (6) |
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160 | (6) |
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Everything Else About Layers |
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166 | (11) |
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Layer Blend Modes for Photographers |
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177 | (5) |
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182 | (7) |
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Chapter 7 Problem Child fixing common problems |
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189 | (42) |
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190 | (2) |
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Using the Smart Brush Tool to Select and Enhance Skies at the Same Time |
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192 | (5) |
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Adding Contrast and Drama to Cloudy Skies |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (2) |
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Focusing Light with Dodging and Burning |
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201 | (5) |
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Removing Haze from Your Photos |
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206 | (2) |
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Opening Up Shadow Areas That Are Too Dark |
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208 | (2) |
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Fixing Areas That Are Too Bright |
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210 | (2) |
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When Your Subject Is Too Dark |
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212 | (3) |
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Automatic Red-Eye Removal |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (2) |
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Fixing Problems Caused by Your Camera's Lens |
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219 | (3) |
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Saving Blurry Photos Using the Shake Reduction Filter |
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222 | (4) |
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The Elements Secret to Fixing Group Shots |
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226 | (5) |
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Chapter 8 Natural Selection selection techniques |
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231 | (22) |
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Selecting Square, Rectangular, or Round Areas |
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232 | (5) |
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237 | (1) |
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Softening Those Harsh Edges |
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238 | (2) |
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Easier Selections with the Quick Selection Tool |
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240 | (3) |
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Making Really Tricky Selections, Like Hair (and Some Cool Compositing Tricks, Too!) |
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243 | (10) |
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Chapter 9 Remove removing unwanted objects |
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253 | (18) |
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Removing Spots and Other Artifacts |
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254 | (2) |
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The Amazing (and Easiest) Way to Remove Distracting Stuff from Your Photos |
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256 | (6) |
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Moving Things Without Leaving a Hole Using Content-Aware Move |
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262 | (3) |
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Automatically Cleaning Up Your Scenes (a.k.a. The Tourist Remover) |
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265 | (6) |
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Chapter 10 Special Edition special effects for photographers |
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271 | (46) |
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Effects and Presets Galore in Quick Edit Mode |
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272 | (2) |
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Creating a Picture Stack Effect |
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274 | (3) |
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Putting a Photo Inside Text |
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277 | (2) |
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Creating an Effects Collage |
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279 | (2) |
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Enhancing Depth of Field (or Faking That 85mm f/1.4 Look) |
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281 | (4) |
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Trendy Desaturated Skin Look |
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285 | (2) |
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High-Contrast Portrait Look |
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287 | (4) |
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Converting to Black and White |
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291 | (7) |
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Panoramas Made Crazy Easy |
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298 | (4) |
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Burned-In Edge Effect (Vignetting) |
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302 | (2) |
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Creating the Selective Color Effect |
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304 | (3) |
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Neutral Density Gradient Filter |
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307 | (3) |
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Getting the Instagram Look |
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310 | (4) |
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314 | (3) |
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Chapter 11 Sharp Tale sharpening techniques |
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317 | (20) |
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318 | (7) |
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Creating Extraordinary Sharpening |
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325 | (3) |
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Edge Sharpening Technique |
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328 | (3) |
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The Most Advanced Sharpening in Elements |
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331 | (2) |
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Advanced Sharpening Using Adjust Sharpness |
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333 | (4) |
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Chapter 12 Print printing, color management, and my Elements 15 workflow |
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337 | (23) |
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Setting Up Your Color Management |
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338 | (1) |
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You Have to Calibrate Your Monitor Before You Go Any Further |
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339 | (3) |
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Getting Pro-Quality Prints That Match Your Screen |
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342 | (4) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (5) |
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What to Do If the Print Still Doesn't Match Your Screen |
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352 | (2) |
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My Elements 15 Photography Workflow |
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354 | (6) |
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