Making sure you are ready for Pre-pressWritten by Paul Hood
Nobody wants to be caught with his pants down. Aside from great inconvenience, you will be put in a very awkward position and you’ll have a tough time making a rebound. So how do you keep those pants on?A key factor in every successful undertaking is a sound plan. Making an outline of steps to be taken as well as preparing for contingencies if things go awry is very important. You can’t possibly play basketball without a ball, right? Without having planned game, you must have ASSUMED that someone have brought that ball. No plan has been made and no coordination took place and that is why we simply assumed and we know that assumptions are one big killer of success. Instead of hearing, “I thought…” it would have been very good to hear “I’m sure.” And just what on earth has this got to do with printing? Like everything else, a successful print venture benefits from good planning. Basic to your printing success is a good understanding of what it is that you want, what you need to get that goal and making a follow-through. An efficient starter would be making a preparation of all materials, know-how and
| | Photoshop - a perfect complement of photographerWritten by Maricon Williams
You and I both know that Photoshop is tool that most of photographers around globe use. There is no doubt that it is hands-down best to photographers when it comes to photo editing, enhancing and other adjustments. It has become and remains industry’s standard in photography. In a matter of fact, photographers have found a perfect complement in Photoshop. Anybody – both amateur and professional can take advantage of powerful features of Photoshop. In post production process, it is most ideal tool for scanning in or digital photographs. Some of prominent adjustments in Photoshop are following: contrast, brightness, levels, color balance, curves, hue, saturation, selective color, channel mixer, de-saturation, variations and in new version which is Photoshop CS, you have powerful Shadow/Highlight tool and Photo Filter adjustment which allows you to try out different 'camera filters' on your image. Not all time that you take pictures, you get your desired results. It is sometimes frustrating to know, especially during a momentous event that pictures you have taken are blurred, imperfect and does not suffice your expectations. However, when you have problems in connection to your photos, you can bank on Photoshop. It can show you many ways to fix picture imperfections. You can adjust brightness values and color values of your images, you can erase flaws and so on. If you took a photo at wrong exposure you can adjust it in Photoshop. You can touchup your photos and add effects. Quality image enhancements and adjustments are just mouse click away from you.
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