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Digital Darkroom

Adobe Photoshop techniques, plug-ins, gear, and ideas

By Mason Resnick - October 2, 2009

Welcome to Adorama's Digital Darkroom resource center. With more than three dozen articles, we cover a wide range from basics to advanced Adobe Photoshop techniques. Our team of writers include power users, world-renowned photographers and gurus.

Because there are so many articles, we've organized them based on several broadly defined areas of interest:

Diane Miller's Adobe Photoshop Workshop is a must-read--Her monthly articles are our most popular feature; each one tackles a specific technique in great depth.

If you have a large library of images on film that you want to digitize, check out our Film to Digital Toolkit. Enjoy Joe Farace's playful Tales of Daring and Adventure, where he takes you step-by-step through the process of creating special effects using Adobe Photoshop and plug-ins. Digital Darkroom Essentials highlights the gear that will make it easier for you to edit your images, while Image Editing Potpourri covers a wide range of diverse techniques.

Also...What are you doing with all those great image files you're shooting? Are you just going to let them sit there on your hard drive or languish in backup storage, or are you going to share them, frame them, and hang them proudly? Well, if you're going to do that--and you should!--then first you'll need to print them.

If you're going to print, you need to know how. That's why we've published this digital printing guide.

Fortunately, there are plenty of tools to help you get the right colors and print with no surprises other than the pleasant variety. Our job is to show you what those tools are and how to use them so you can produce prints you'll be proud to display and share.

Before you get started, be sure to check out AdoramaPix, Adorama's online photoprocessing service. It's become the lab of choice for legions of professional photographers nationwide thanks to its personal service, uncompromising quality, and competitive pricing. Then come back here and we'll show you how to get the most out of your printer or printing service.Scroll down to read them all, and happy editing! If you don't see articles covering topics you're interested in, please let me know and I'll see what we can do.

--Mason Resnick
Editor, Adorama Learning Center

Diane Miller's Adobe Photoshop Workshop

Adobe Photoshop CS3: Changing Colors Selectively
Advanced Digital Printing: Take Control!
Artistic photomontage effects
Avoid a typical image-editing gotcha by understanding your histogram
Digital spot remover
Fixing a broken wing...and learning to extend the canvas
Fixing a Washed-Out Sky
Invisible Touch: Cloning in dark and light areas
Make a slide sandwich--with a dash of digital
Prevent "posterization" (banding) when darkening landscape skies
Refining Selections in Photoshop
True Color: Optimize Your Monitor
Virtual fill flash

Film to Digital Toolkit

Film scanning checklist / Mason Resnick
Create a digital archive: Converting slides to pixels / Jerry O'Neill

Joe Farace's Tales of Daring and Adventure!

How to create a toy camera look, digitally
It was a Dark and Stormy Night...In Photoshop
Photoshop Meets Godzilla!

Digital Darkroom Essentials

Make prints from digital files: go to the lab, or do it yourself? / Joe Farace
SpyderMan: Common Sense Color Management / Joe Farace
Why you need a graphics tablet / Joe Farace
Where's the rest of my photo? / Joe Farace

Image Editing Potpourri

Digital imaging and your health / Joe Farace
Filters for digital photographers, part 1: Are optical filters still relevant? / James Bailey
Filters for digital photographers, part 2: What's really going on in your computer? / James Bailey

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Photoshop Elements, batch processing, and how I got the scoop

A night of vandalism shatters my hometown's quiet sense of security, and I got the photos out there first.

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Mason Resnick, December 15, 2011

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How Photoshop Elements' "Process Multiple Files" feature let me scoop the local media on a local breaking news story.

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Clipping Paths—AdoramaTV

Digital Photography 1 on 1 (Advanced)

ArticleAdorama TV Techniques and How-Tos - by Mark Wallace, November 30, 2011

In this episode Mark Wallace shows you what a clipping path is, and then walks you through the process of making one using Adobe Photoshop.

TAGS: photoshop, photoshop cs3, editing, Photoshop CS, graphic design, indesign, clipping path

DxO Film Pack Version 3.1

Product Review

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Diane Miller, November 29, 2011

DxO Film Pack 3.1 is now available as a free upgrade to version 3.0. Here's why you should buy Version 3.0 and upgrade!

Photo Printer Buyer’s Guide

What features to look for when equipping your digital darkroom

ArticleBuying Guides Gear Guides & Reviews - by Darcy Silvers, November 13, 2011

When it comes to photo printers, you shouldn’t just point at one in the store and decide to take it home with you. After all, you’ve spent considerable time and effort taking photos of your favorite subjects.

TAGS: canon, buying guide, epson, printer, digital printing, buying tips, HP, Focus on Printing

Product Review: OnOne Perfect Layers

More power for Lightroom and Aperture users?

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Diane Miller, October 25, 2011

OnOne claims Perfect Layers lets you work in layers even if your image-editing software doesn't have this option. Is it a low-cost way to do layers, or too buggy for prime time?

TAGS: layers, plug-in, onOne

Curves and Levels in Photoshop

An advanced image-editing tutorial

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Diane Miller, October 4, 2011

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Learn good practices for adjusting images and the advantage of working in 16 bits.

TAGS: image management, photoshop, Image editing, image editing tips, image quality

Corel Painter 12 for Photographers

Taking “beyond the ordinary” to the next level

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Diane Miller, September 26, 2011

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Turn your photos into paintings? Corel Painter—plus a Wacom tablet—offers endless possibilities.

TAGS: Image editing, image editing tips, Corel

Smart Objects—AdoramaTV

Digital Photography 1 on 1

ArticleAdorama TV Techniques and How-Tos - by Mark Wallace, August 29, 2011

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AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this week's episode Mark answers a viewer's question about working with RAW files, specifically, how to continue editing a RAW file in Photoshop.

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Single-Image HDR in Photoshop Elements

The powerful Shadows/Highlights control is the closest you'll get to applying HDR to a single image.

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Mason Resnick, August 18, 2011

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HDR: You've heard the term, and may have even tried it. After all, who wouldn't want to extend the range of shadows to highlights within one photo, and compensate for the relatively limited range of light capture of a typical digital camera?

TAGS: photoshop, photoshop elements, HDR, HDRI, photoshop techniques

Buying Guide: Top Photoshop Plug-ins

Enhance “jack-of-all-trades” Photoshop with these Masters of One

ArticleDigital Darkroom/Printing Techniques and How-Tos - by Greg Scoblete, July 18, 2011

Adobe's Photoshop is the pre-eminent photo editor for professionals and advanced amateurs alike. In fact, it's achieved that rare status of being both a product trade name and a verb, "Photoshopped," is to photo editing what "Googled" is to web searching.

TAGS: photoshop elements, plug-in, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Photoshop CS5

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