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1 - Introduction

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1 - Introduction 2 - Open Photoshop Elements 3 - Full Edit 4 - Geography of Full Edit 5 - Don't Get Lost! 6 - Open a Photograph 7 - Three Locations 8 - Create a Background Copy Layer 9 - Zoom 10 - Save 11 - Levels 12 - Judge Your Editing 13 - Save as a JPEG

Workflow

Young man developing film, 1937.

Don O'Brien

Under a dim red light, I first removed the paper backing from the roll of film, see-sawed the film up and down in the developer tray for 5 minutes, then through the shortstop (acetic acid) for a minute, next to the hypo tray. After several minutes I turned on the light to see the results.

Don O'Brien

This document will get you going on the right workflow.

What's workflow?

Workflow used to be:

Take Pictures > Rewind > Drop Film Off at Lab > Pick Prints Up.

Nowadays, workflow is much longer.

That's bad?

No!

Now you can do so much with just a few clicks.

So, while there are many steps below, don't be alarmed.

The steps are easy to do.

For a discussion of the entire workflow, go to Workflow.

Mac Users

When you see Ctrl below, press the Command key instead.

There's one exception—if your mouse doesn't have a right click button.

When you want to right click on something, press and hold Ctrl, and then click on the item.

Get a Flash Drive

You'll need a flash drive.

You'll use it to bring your photographs to class.

You can buy a flash drive from Amazon, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and many other locations.

Spend about $10 to $15 for an 8 GB flash drive.

GB, gigabyte, refers to the size of the flash drive memory

Do the following.

1) Move some of your photographs to the flash drive.

If you don't know how to transfer some of your photographs to a flash drive, go to How to Move Photographs to a Flash Drive.

2) Bring the flash drive to class.

3) You'll edit the photographs in class.

4) You'll save the edited photographs on the flash drive.

5) At home, you'll work from the flash drive for a while.

6) If you want to edit a new photograph, move it to the flash drive before editing.

7) At home, save all of your editing to the flash drive.

By doing so, you won't have to confront opening and saving photographs with Picasa, iPhoto, Bridge, etc.

You learn how to save to those organizing programs later.

Let's get going on the workflow track.

Again, use this version of the tutorial if you want to print it out.

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