Photo Tips – The Collection

This is a free trial course that lets you test-drive the new PCS Video system. The video content is compiled from the Hands-on Photo Tips series on YouTube. But beyond the plain video content, you will get some awesome resources with this course, including original RAW files, Photoshop projects and editing presets. So the download is totally worth it! You will also get to test the full version of the PCS Player software that will take your learning experience to a whole new level. Check out the list of the most important features of the PCS Player for more details.

Contents at a glance

• How to Remove Chromatic Aberration in Adobe Camera Raw: In this Hands-on Photo Tip, I will show you how to use Adobe Camera Raw (version 7 and later) to remove Chromatic Aberration from your photos. Chromatic Aberration is an optical effect caused by your lens. Especially when you shoot with a wide-angle lens, it creates color fringes towards the edges of the frame. If you do not treat them properly, these fringes get worse when you post-process your images, especially when you are using them to create an HDR.
• Non-destructive Editing in Photoshop: In this Hands-on Photo Tip, I will show you the basics of non-destructive editing. If you want to be flexible in your photo editing workflow, and if you want to avoid spending more time on an image than you actually need to, this is the way to go.
• Work Faster with Background Saving in Photoshop CS6: In this Hands-on Photo Tip, you will learn how the Save in Background feature of Photoshop CS6 can be a real time-saver. You can now save a file while you carry on working on it. Photoshop will save all the changes done before you told it to save the image. Especially if you are working with large Photoshop projects (e.g. panoramas or files with many layers) this can speed up your workflow and avoid frequent interruptions.
• Photomatix Pro 5 – Review of the new features: In version 5 of Photomatix Pro, there is a number of new features for enthusiasts and professionals that can make your HDR post-processing a lot easier and more effective. in this lesson, I will review the new features and give you some information on how to use them in your HDR work.
• Photomatix Pro 5 – How to Use the Contrast Optimizer: The Contrast Optimizer is probably the most important new feature of Photomatix Pro 5. It’s a new tone mapping method that is tailored to produce more realistic results than the well-known Details Enhancer.
• Photomatix Pro 5 – How to use the Fusion Real Estate method: The new Fusion/Real Estate method in Photomatix Pro 5 is a great addition for real-estate and architecture photographers. It helps you create natural looking HDR images with only a few clicks.
• Single Exposure Blending – How to Get the Most out of Your RAW Images: In this Hands-on Photo Tip, I will show you how to develop two separate versions of a single RAW image file and blend them together in Photoshop. One version is optimized for the highlights and the other one is optimized for the shadows. In this way, you can work on the different regions of your image separately which gives you much more flexibility for optimizing the overall photo.
• Creating Truly Realistic HDR Images: In this Photo Tip, I will show you a really cool way to create a realistic-looking HDR image with a completely non-destructive workflow. We’re going to use a feature in Photoshop CS6 that allows you to merge your source photos and bring the resulting 32 bit HDR image into Adobe Camera Raw (or Lightroom) to tone map it.