Learn the art and craft of creating inkjet prints that do justice to your photos and get the most out of your printer.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Exploring why we print
- Understanding what you need for this course
- What's new in the update
- Why inkjet printing?
- Understanding ink types: Dye vs. pigment
- Discussing considerations for black and white
- Reviewing the features
- Printing and your workflow
- Printing black-and-white photos
- Understanding the histogram
- Understanding what localized adjustments are used for
- Explaining the histogram with a practical example
- Making a localized adjustment in a practical example
- Evaluating a localized adjustment in a practical example
- Refining a localized adjustment for effect
- Making a gradient adjustment
- Paying attention to viewing conditions
- Summing up
- Understanding pixels, printer dots, and resolution
- Understanding resolution
- Defining resampling and interpolation
- Understanding where resizing fits into your workflow
- Defining native printer resolution
- Understanding the relationship between viewing distance and print size
- Reducing image size in Photoshop
- Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size
- Cropping to a specific size and resolution using the Crop tool
- Enlarging an image in Photoshop
- Creating a triptych
- Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac
- Exploring the aesthetics of print size
- Understanding how sharpening works
- Sharpening in JPEG mode
- Exploring sharpening workflows
- Sharpening in Camera Raw
- Looking at noise reduction
- Sharpening output with Smart Sharpen
- Understanding selective sharpening
- Sharpening through an edge mask
- Reviewing high-pass sharpening
- Applying aggressive sharpening
- Exploring advanced sharpening techniques
- Exploring the Print dialog
- Proofing at smaller sizes
- Exploring how color works
- Reviewing color models
- Defining gamut and color space
- Reviewing when colors go out of gamut
- Configuring Photoshop's color settings
- Changing color space in Camera Raw
- Working in an advanced color space
- Assigning a color space in Photoshop
- Correcting a color image
- Printing a color image
- Evaluating the print
- What is color management?
- Profiling a monitor
- Evaluating a monitor profile
- Exploring paper profiles
- Understanding soft proofing
- Understanding how paper quality affects the appearance of black in prints
- Looking at third-party papers
- Looking at paper finish
- Understanding paper traits
- Discussing paper choice and presentation
- Printing with Lightroom
- Laying out images
- Sharpening for print in Lightroom
- Color management in Lightroom
- Understanding the print dialogue box
- What print options are not available in Lightroom
- Printing a black-and-white image
- Printing a color image
- Goodbye
Taught by
Ben Long