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Peter Bargh explains why you may be visited by this unhelpful message when using Photoshop and then shows us how not to be caught out in the future

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When the announcement that Adobe had bought Pixmantec surfaced, it left many photographers who took advantage of Rawshooter Essentials wondering what their options are now that this free software package has been discontinued. Gary Wolstenholme takes a look.

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Book Reviews
Coming from Adobe press you can assume that this book will be the essential Photoshop tutorial, especially with its "Classroom" title and the fact it's part of Adobes official training series. The cover features Photoshop's familiar eye graphic that's used on the supplied manual and outer packaging. The book is laid out like the manual supplied with the program so it is disappointingly dull with lots of monotone images and just a small colour section in the centre. That said, the info provide...
Eighteen lessons writen by Adobe as part of their official training series. As it's writen by the team who produce the program you can expect an insiders knowledge. The book is greyscale throughout with a small colour section up front and a CD. It looks very much like the official handbook that comes with the program but has a different structure with review questions and answers at the end. If you already own the User Guide you won't really get great value from this. If you have a trial version...
When you first look at this book you may be a little confused over how the book actually works. But if you stick with it you'll find it's a really useful tool to have on your shelf. The book's written in alphabetical order so you can easily find a particular technique or lesson. Each topic has a summary which tells you where the feature can be found, what shortcuts work and which Photoshop has that feature. There's a colour tab system which will let you thumb-through the book quickly and...
Image specialist expert, Richard Lynch, shows us how to successfully use Layers in Photoshop. Simple, step-by-step instructions illustrate how to correct, enhance, fix and manipulate your images using layers. The language is easy to understand, the text is easy to follow and the images illustrate the book well. The accompanying CD also gives you the chance to work through the lessons taught in the book at ease and with practical images. If you're a beginner looking for advice or a...
Elements is a cut down version of Photoshop but no less satisfying to use and although the interface has been designed for beginners theres still plenty that needs good explanation and thats what Philip Andrews intends to do with this 246 page book. Colour throughout the book is heavily illustrated some examples are overkill but many are excellent visual aids to areas of digital imaging that are often talked about but rarely illustrated such as artefacts that occur when an image is saved as a J...
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This is a video tutorial that demonstrates how to exposure blend to maintain a high dynamic range using adobe Photoshop. (Apologies for the posh voice)
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FAQs
Your image MUST be no longer than 600 pixels on the longest side (1000 pixels for e2 members).
The image MUST be in JPEG format - this means it must be saved with .jpg extension
at the end.
The image must be RGB, not CMYK.
Note that if you use Adobe RGB (1998) colour space rather than sRGB it will result in a loss in density and contrast.
Here's the easiest way to do it in Photoshop (PS) (7, CS & Elements):
In your application go to Image - Image size (PS)/ This will bring up a box
showing some dodgy numbers (Screenshot 1 - PS Version as I don't have Elements!)
Screenshot 1
1 = Pixel Dimensions
2 = Resolution
The first thing to do in this box is to change the resolution. Mine at the
moment says "600" pixels/inch (aka ppi/dpi). For viewing on the web,
72 dpi is plenty. DON'T CLICK OK!!!! When you change the resolution, you will
notice that the Pixel Dimensions have changed too. These may have changed to
less than 600 pixels. You can now change the highest number to 600 pixels (on
a landscape for example, this will be the width). The other number will look
after itself (Screenshot 2)
Screenshot 2
Now you can click ok! Your image will get much smaller on the screen.
With the zoom tool selected right click on the image and select "Actual
Size". This will bring the image back to a viewable size.
If you want to apply any sharpening (lots of people do, I don't!) you
should do it now.
Here's the "tricky" bit: Go to "File - Save For Web".
There'll be a new screen popup titled "Save for Web, Powered by Image
Ready" (or similar).
The bit on the right is what you are interested in. Ignore all the boxes
for a moment. Beside Preset theres a circle with a triangle in it. Press
it. This will bring up "Optimize to File Size":
Screenshot 3
Screenshot 4
Where you see "Desired File Size", set that to 100 or below (I normally
use 99 just to be on the safe side), and then hit OK. That will disappear and
bring you back to the Save for web dialogue.
Hit the Save button, choose a place to save and Robert is your father's brother!
If this doesn't help we have a technique here which tells you how to resize your photos in several other applications.
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James, Thanks for your advice. This was the switch I was looking for. Solved my problem immediately,
Forum: Computers
Adobe Photoshop 7 final edition
If you're upgrading to a Canon 400d and don't want to spend any extra money at present, I would suggest you use the Canon RAW editing software that comes with the camera export the highest quality .jpg conversion into PS7 for any addtional alterations you want to make .
Forum: Digital imaging
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Don't worry juldon, v. sensible questions. I would like to thank you all for your comments, they are much appreciated!! My next question is: does anyone know any students, or are you a student? If so get in touch, we could do a deal ;)
Forum: Digital imaging
Adobe Photoshop 7 or 5 - Which to buy?
There's also a review on ePHOTOzine Adobe Photoshop CS review
Forum: Digital imaging
Adobe Photoshop
Go to www.bechamdigital.co.uk.Forget books buy Barry's C.D.or D.V.D's for around 12/13 and they will teach you all you need to about Photoshop from "Elements to CS2".the big advantage is you can run them on your computer while working on your image,just minimise the cd until you need it. Also as Simon advises join a Camera Club. Regards Tony.
Forum: Digital cameras
Adobe Photoshop CS2
If you are batch processing several hundred images or so on a regular basis it may be worth considering investing in a program like Lightroom which is geared up to carrying out a process over many images at a time; again you need a powerful setup to get the best out of it. Briefly in CS2 you create a new action in the normal way and then select File - Automate - Batch and you can then apply th...
Forum: Computers
Adobe photoshop
THanks J-P i have just sent an email to your personal email
Forum: Taking photos
Adobe Photoshop
Thanks for all the useful advice. Can Tim Franklin contact me re his surplus copy of Martin Evening's book on ian.pratt5@btopenworld.com Ian Pratt LRPS
Forum: Digital imaging
Adobe Photoshop - going cheap!!!
Download the trial versions of both and see which one you prefer.
Forum: ePHOTOzine discussion
Was looking at the Ben Willmore book this morning in PC World and think it's probably better for a new user as I agree with Merl that the Martin Evening book does require some knowledge of CS to get the best out of it. For simple advice for what to do with your pictures then the Scott Kelby book is excellent. Tony
Forum: Digital imaging
The one I got given to me by my internet provider has the modem and wireless router and 4 eithernet ports built in. so you connect it to your main computer via an eithernet cable (there should be one in the box) and the first time you have to set it up for your ISP etc and enable the wireless settings. After that it is a run alone device so you can go direct to the internet via the wireless co...
Forum: Computers
Adobe Photoshop cs?????????Help
Works on Windows 2000 also.
Forum: Digital imaging
Adobe Photoshop 7 - background.
Well, that sorts me out then! Ha ha. Thanks for all the help, now that you have said it, I see the point of it now. I usually like a pale blue background on my Windows Applications, but I understand the grey now. Something like an 18% grey card in traditional photography? Well, I will leave it grey, many many thanks for all the help, sorry I rattled a few cages but I got there in the end. C...
Forum: Digital imaging
Adobe Photoshop
Small print don't you just hate it! There's also lots of large print on here and even that doesn't get read sometimes
Forum: ePHOTOzine discussion
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
O.K. I've found you somewhere to post your question, HERE.
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News

Community celebrates software that changed the way we view the World.

Available for Windows, Photoshop Elements offers new and more flexible ways for consumers to organize files, edit images with ease and share photos in engaging and innovative ways.

Photoshop Lightroom beta 4.1 was posted on today in order to resolve some issues with the original beta 4 build.

Adobe Photoshop Demos New Fish-Eye correction features as well as future iPad apps.

Digital photography software developer outlines roadmap to bring award-winning plug-ins to users of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

The Adobe Photoshop 9.0.1 update fixes a number of problems discovered after Photoshop CS2 software was released and is available to download for both Windows and Macintosh users.

Updated camera support now available in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 and Adobe Camera RAW 6.5.

The update has been re-released after proms reported with the previous version and older versions of Mac OSX.

Following a leak last week that Adobe were planning to introduce Photoshop CS2, we can now confirm the details as the product is officially launched

Adobe has announced their latest version of Photoshop Elements - the number 1 selling consumer photo editing software now reaches version 10.

Landmark release packs powerful editing punch and harnesses the creative potential of 3D.

New Lightroom beta delivers faster performance and refined image processing.
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Reviews

After being blown away by the mind-boggling feature-set of Adobe Photoshop CS4, Matt Grayson takes a look himself.


Adobe strengthen their brand with an update to the popular importing tool. Matt Grayson takes a look at Lightroom 2.

Are you smarter than a 6-year old? Well, a version 6 anyway. That’s the question on the lips of rivals to Adobe’s entry-level photo editor as Duncan Evans investigates.

Sorting, selecting, correcting and churning out your images for a variety of formats is now easier than ever, as Duncan Evans investigates.



Daniel Bell takes a look at the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Express 2.0, a free app for iOS and the in-app purchase Camera Pack.

An in-depth look at the new features of Photoshop CS5 - the image editing program part of the new Adobe CS5 Creative Suite.

At last a version of the mighty editing program that won’t stick its nose up to Windows Vista. Duncan Evans rubs his hands with glee.


Techniques

Martin Evening was recently given the honour of appearing in the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Here he shows us how to use the Content-Aware Scaling tool in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Duncan Evans explores the new mono-conversion filter in the latest version of Photoshop.

Photoshop expert, Terry Steeley, kicks off the first of a new series of tutorials for ePHOTOzine that looks at how to watermark our digital images to protect them from being used without our consent.

The effect of blurring the non-critical parts of an image helps separate the main subject from the rest of the foreground and background that might otherwise be found as distracting. Anthony Moringello shows us how to digitally create depth-of-field.

How to fake the look of Autumn in Photoshop.

Make your own Christmas card with your own photos in Photoshop.

Turn your bright sky into night with the help of Photoshop.

As Halloween is just around the corner we're going to show you how to create a ghost like image.

Give your images a 3D feel by making your subject pop out of a photo frame.

How to enhance Autumn shades in Photoshop.

Learn how to create a water reflection in Photoshop.

With the help of Photoshop you can have fireworks decorating the sky of any image.
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