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12 Burning Questions about Adobe Photoshop Color Profiles (FAQ)

You have problem heard about them, but do you really know what a color profile is?  What does that little box that comes up that asks what you want to do with “embedded color profiles” and “Convert Color profiles?”  Huh?  Just click OK and make the box go away?

NO.  You need to know.  Ignorance is not bliss in this case.  Accurate colors are required for creating art or processing photos in a predictable and repeatable way.  Now the talk about color profiles is all academic unless you calibrate your monitor.  If you don’t, you will be shooting in the dark anyway, so there is not a huge need to know the ballistics of your ammo.

Photoshop Workflow You Can Use – 12 Must Follow Steps for Making Great Color Photos.

Did you take a great photo, and got it to look good on your computer screen, only to find out that after you publish it to the web, or give it to a friend, or print it at a photo printing place that the colors are all wrong?  Then you need to follow these steps.  This is the work flow that I use for processing my photos (See more at Alaska Grand Photography).

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Are you a Digital Professional? You need a Solid State Drive!

 

Once too pricey and too small for the average user, these solid state hard drives, which have no moving parts, are priced and sized for everyday professional users.  After upgrading my Windows 7 64 bit machine to a Solid State Drive (SSD), I had a perceived increase in speed of at least 100% doing my Adobe Photoshop and Premiere operations and launching and using multiple programs at the same time.  The boot time was cut in half!  Some applications such as PT-Gui sped up 5-10 times!

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