In reply to pishmishy:
> For such a useful article on digital photography it's disappointing that most of the screen shots look as if they've been dropped to an indexed palatte before being converted back to RGB images resulting in horrible banding of colours.
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> Also some of the subtitles require editing...
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> 'Rotation & Cropping of the imageIf' -> 'Rotation & Cropping of the image If'
> 'Exposure control of Dynamic Range using Levels & Curves' -> 'Exposure control using Levels & Curves'
> 'Resolutionfor Screen' -> 'Resolution for Screen'
> 'Re-sizing the Image smaller' -> 'Reducing the image'
> 'Re-sizing the Image bigger' -> 'Enlarging the image'
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> Also:
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> 'standardPhotoshop' -> 'standard Photoshop'
> JPEG inconsistently written as JPEG jpeg and J-PEG.
I have read your critique and take on board what you have said. I have been preparing this article for over a year and have gone bog-eyed re-reading (and editing)it that many times. So unless you have some filter to check how J-peg is written, it is incredibly time consuming to pick out all those discrepancies. Even the method of carrying out a particular function changes with each new edition of PS. So I thought it was worth mentioning 'Content Aware' as it was markedly quite different to previous ways of retouching photos The reason for the poor quality of some of the images is due to compression required by my internet service provider, who won't allow me to post anything over 15MB. This article was originally over 50MB! I am in the process of sorting this problem, so please bear with me. If anybody notices any other discrepancies, spelling mistakes etc. then please let us know and that can be rectified also.
The most important thought that preoccupied me when writing the article was to make it readable , yet also anybody with access to PS could just dip into the particular area that was relevant to them. Finally thanks for all the positive comments recieved. If anybody just uses one feature in the article to improve their photography, then it has all been worthwhile.
Now I'm off to Wales and the Lakes for 3 weeks holiday and hopefully take a few snaps!