Advanced Digital Imaging for Underwater Photography

by Bonnie Pelnar

This course takes off where Digital Workflow & Image Manipulation for Underwater Photography left off. Some topics that were briefly mentioned are elaborated on in much more detail in this advanced course.

For those of you who really want to delve into the how's and why's of digital imaging, this course does it. Many of the tools demonstrated in the intermediate course are used in combination in the advanced course to give you the best results possible when color correcting and manipulating digital underwater images.

Course Contents Include:

- Advanced Photoshop techniques

     • Tricks with adjustment layers
     • History brush techniques
     • Using channels for masking
     • Working in LAB
     • Advanced color correction techniques
     • Advanced composites
     • Black & white, duotones, tritones
     • Intro to CMYK and color correction for print
     • Photoshop Actions

- Working on 16 bit images

     • Bit depth in depth
     • Camera RAW options
     • Nikon Capture
     • Photoshop in 16 bit

- Color management

     • Color management nightmares
     • Color profile organization
     • Using a complete color management system
     • In-camera color management

- Scaling up...what are your options and how do they compare?

- Amazing filters that can do the unimaginable

- PREREQUISITE:
- ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 7 (CS RECOMMENDED) AND A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO USE IT
- A COMPUTER WITH PLENTY OF HARD DISC SPACE AND MEMORY TO PRACTICE THE TECHNIQUES