Inkjet Printing: Advanced Photography Techniques

Get better inkjet prints—with less frustration, fewer reprints, and less waste of paper and ink—by learning how to spot and correct problems first in Photoshop.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Understanding how to use this course

1. Basic Skills

• Basic adjustments for printing
• Solution: Basic adjustments for printing
• Making tonal adjustments to a black and white image
• Solution: Making tonal adjustments to a black and white image
• Exploring the aesthetics of black
• Solution: Exploring the aesthetics of black
• Improving a low-light image
• Solution: Improving a low-light image
• Working with adaptive shadows and highlights
• Solution: Working with adaptive shadows and highlights
• Editing by the numbers
• Solution: Editing by the numbers

2. Expanding the Toolset

• Managing the gray in an image
• Solution: Managing the gray in an image
• Working with gradient masks
• Solution: Working with gradient masks
• Protecting highlights and building up an image
• Solution: Protecting highlights and building up an image
• Creating a basic vignette
• Solution: Creating a basic vignette
• Controlling the viewer's attention through edits
• Solution: Controlling the viewer's attention through edits
• Editing a color image for a black and white conversion
• Solution: Editing a color image for a black and white conversion
• Addressing tone in color images
• Solution: Addressing tone in color images
• Understanding a simple mask that seems hard
• Solution: Understanding a simple mask that seems hard

3. Advanced Printing Corrections

• Using exposure layers
• Solution: Using exposure layers
• Exploring hand-painted highlights
• Solution: Exploring hand-painted highlights
• Getting the look of a silver print
• Solution: Getting the look of a silver print
• Making better masks
• Solution: Making better masks
• Handling transition zones
• Solution: Handling transition zones
• Exploring color practice
• Solution: Exploring color practice
• Making a localized white-balance adjustment
• Solution: Making a localized white-balance adjustment
• Exaggerating existing light
• Solution: Exaggerating existing light
• Practicing radical light repainting
• Solution: Practicing radical light repainting
• Making an image low contrast on purpose
• Solution: Making an image low contrast on purpose

4. Printing on Your Own

• Realizing a subtle concept in an image
• Solution: Realizing a subtle concept in an image
• Interpreting an image on your own
• Solution: Interpreting an image on your own
• Improving on a boring image
• Solution: Improving on a boring image

Conclusion

• Goodbye