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As you know by now we’re thinking of releasing a HOT new CD for Photographers plus some other super cool stuff for you. (if you haven’t heard about it yet click here for details)So, the video tutorial you’re about to watch is a sample video from the proposed CD.
This one is designed to help you save time by being more productive using the Adobe Bridge.
Here’s what you’ve got to do: Watch the tutorial. Read the instructions below the video so you can give us your feedback and tell us what you want…
Here’s what we’re looking for in your comments:
(1) Tell us what you like about this video?
(2) Tell us if this is the type of tutorial you want to see more of?
(3) Tell us what else you want to see to help you most?
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August 16, 2009 11:06 pm
Hi Shane & Mike
recently I returned from an overseas holidays with 1200 shots. because I failed to do a White Balance adjustment in those countries, I have a huge number of adjustments to make to these ‘jpeg’ shots.
Is there an automated batch process in PS 3 which I can emply to correct my shots? If so, would you please give a detailed explanation. Thanks.
August 14, 2009 3:58 pm
I am a more advanced Photoshop user, so found this a bit basic. I did like the short and to the point presentation. I would like to see more advanced videos.
June 26, 2009 12:28 pm
Excellent – short and sweet. Love the personality too. Makes it fun.
March 17, 2009 2:24 pm
Excellent vid mate.
To save me writing heaps I’ll go along with Vashti comments, March 3,comment #15.
Re: Camera Raw plus whats the best format to save should originals go to DNF etc.
I’m all over the place as far as a good workflow at the moment so soemthing along those lines would be fantastic.
Also a little on bit size would be great, how to when to etc.
March 9, 2009 3:26 am
Nice video right length, good production quality. If your interested in bridge this is good.
Myself I use lightroom, are you doing any lightroom tutorial video’s?
March 6, 2009 7:27 am
Thank you, yes it was good to learn a shortcut that is new to me. Is there a shortcut for distort? I know Ctrl T for transform but is there an added one for distort?
March 6, 2009 4:41 am
Nice little video – is there a list of shortcuts I can print to use as a reference guide. I am very new to photoshop in general and really need a basic grounding in all the available tools before I delve into techniques. In my attempts I very often find that I am trying to use the wrong tool. The free vids have helped but are disjointed. I would like a progressive learning video.
Congratulations on the way your videos are presented IE, leaving in all the little mistakes as this helps learning.
cheers
RHP
March 5, 2009 3:23 pm
Short and sweet and pointing out the hidden gold as usual. Thanks Shane!
March 3, 2009 4:29 pm
@ DavidM Blanchard that was the ‘Adobe Bridge’ it comes with Adobe Photoshop and great for organizing your photos and images.
March 3, 2009 3:37 pm
Hi there Shane,this video was great and will certainly save me some time using the short cut for rotation of photographs.
Can’t wait for your next video.
I would also be interested in some videos on raw processing, printer callibration at some stage also.
Kind Regards
March 3, 2009 9:32 am
I didn’t hear that you were talking about Bridge until the end. Does this also work in Lightroom? I use Lightroom instead of Bridge.. Excellent Video!
March 3, 2009 8:57 am
Shane, excellent video (as usual).
What I liked about it:
1) Brevity: I work hard, I don’t have heaps of ’spare’ time, so I like short tutorials that give me the information without the fluff.
2) Real world application: I’m a wedding photog and have literally thousands of images to process, so this tut (in particular) is a HUGE help to me.
3) Easy to listen to: OK, I’m biased. I’m and Aussie, and actually like our accent. I find it refreshing to listen to an Aussie speaking.
4)
What I’d like to see:
1) CameraRAW tuts: Others have already mentioned them so there’s no need to elucidate.
2) Indexing/Referencing: Your tuts are always pithy, and you’re always giving more information that the title explains. For instance, you not only showed us how to rotate images, you showed us a ’shortcut’, and you also mentioned ’sorting’, and this is totally tied in with ‘workflow’… if you could tag/index the vids as you create them and make a kick-a$$ reference for your DVD (or printed version *winks*) that’d be AWESOME.
3) More workflow-type tutorials. Also, keep including shortcuts.
4) I’d like to see a tut on how to do the following in the most efficient way: Sort keepers from non-keepers (ie. with wedding proofs, paring down 1200 shots to 800 proofs), rotating (portrait/landscape), processing in cameraRAW (optimising whitebalance, exposure, contrast, saturation etc), resizing (optimising for web viewing), adding a watermark/copyright info. I have my own methods, but I’m convinced there HAS to be a more efficient way.
4) Keep on coming out with a mix of productivity/workflow and ’skill’ tuts – they’re awesome.
Vashti
March 3, 2009 8:17 am
Hello,
Great things such video’s for beginners (as I) or more experianced photographers. Photoshop is so good and the possibilitys so extended that you never can show us all of them. So continue as you do now, learn us how to use photoshop in the right way to make good and nice compositions.
A great admirer from Belgium.
Roger
March 3, 2009 3:57 am
Shane, the video was great, except what the heck was the program the thumbnaills were in? I’m somewhat of a beginner using Photoshop CS3 but my photo’s end up in my Canon;s propriatary image files. I’m not sure what you used
Sometimes when I blow up a JPEG image I get artifacts. Is there an easy way to clean them up?
March 3, 2009 2:35 am
Thanks Shane.
Loved the Ctrl [,] part. and also the Ctrl + part.
This will speed up my work flow quite a bit.
Do you have a video on layers?
I want to process pictures with HDR, without using the HDR feature.
March 3, 2009 1:09 am
Another great tutorial Shane, I like your up-beat style, you obviously enjoy what you’re doing and this is very encouraging for us to give it a go ourselves. You come across as very real and very clear thinking.
I think RAW processing would be a good one.
I’d also like to see things that are easily translatable between PS & Elements. Maybe even just mentioning as you go along, for instance which menu to find stuff, like you do with the cmnd(Mac) – ctrl(Windows) scenario.
Obviously some things aren’t in Elements, but just where you can. Like printing a contact sheet for example.
Kind regards
Dean
March 3, 2009 1:13 am
@Dean, thanks for the great feedback. Excellent suggestions. I know alot of photographers who are using Elements as it does what they need.
If the demand is there then we could create compatible videos in Elements also – at least for some of the tips and tricks
Shane
March 3, 2009 12:51 am
Good tutorial. Most of my work is photo restoration, so tutorials on that subject would be of interest. Thanks for your efforts to make Photoshop easier to understand.
March 3, 2009 12:10 am
Great tutorial. Clean & easy – my favorite. As always, there are multiple ways to do something in Photoshop. I would have continued to do it the slow way because it worked and I wouldn’t have thought to look for a better way. Thanks.
March 3, 2009 12:07 am
Great short cut tips.Perhaps an episode on Camera Raw would be interesting to watch..
March 3, 2009 12:13 am
@sudzey – GREAT! Excellent suggestions
Thanks again. Shane.
March 3, 2009 12:02 am
could have mentioned this is in Bridge not Photoshop.
Nice to learn about the sort by orientation button.
Like to learn more about paths.
Thanks
March 3, 2009 12:12 am
@shortmemory – good point, I’ve just updated the text to mention it’s done in the Adobe Bridge
Thanks for the feedback. Cheers Shane
March 3, 2009 12:00 am
I like….whats next??
March 2, 2009 11:36 pm
The video was great. I am still new to Photoshop and am comparing things to Elements. The video makes it look EASY.
This is exactly what I need to help me start with Photoshop.
I think a CHEAT sheet of shortcuts along with the video would be helpful .
March 2, 2009 10:58 pm
Excellent! I like the fact that it is simple, short and provide a shortcut;
Anything for beginners like me is well appreciated; I like to be able to play with what I learn and do repeated steps so I do not forget that’s how I learned several tools
Why not some video on some of the tools in the tool bars and also anything with camera raw is appreciated. Can’t wait to see how to organize in bridge. Thanks again