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JPG vs. RAW File Formats | Digital Fundamental Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - JPG vs. RAW File Formats

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Running Time: 6 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Video compares and contrasts the JPG and RAW File Formats. Now that we’ve spent some time delving into the twists and turns of JPGs and RAWs, it’s time for us to show you some differences of the two formats when it comes to editing an actual picture.

You already know by now that because JPGs have a smaller file size, it also means that they can’t handle the same amount of information on colors as much as the RAW file can. This results to banding whenever you zoom in on a JPG photo.

 
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What is RAW File Format? | Digital Fundamental Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - What is RAW File Format?

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Running Time: 8 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial Video is going into detail about what is so good about the RAW File Format. When you shoot, the picture taken by your DSLR Camera is stored in the RAW File Format, which essentially keeps your image quality exactly as the camera sees it. The Raw file is made up of ones and zeroes that your computer can process. If you know little about the Raw File Format, then you will soon discover why professionals use it... exclusively.

 
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What Are JPGs? | Digital Fundamental Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - What Are JPGs?

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Running Time: 7 minutes

In this digital world we live in, you see the ubiquitous JPEG everywhere—practically all images you can find online are in this format. Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG pictures are compressed images that have the .jpg file extension. Basically, JPEGs or JPGs compress images in order to make their file sizes smaller.

The most annoying thing about sending files and pictures online or via email, is to find that your file attachments are too big; and we wouldn’t want that now, would we? Waiting all that time trying to send over files only to have them rejected due to file size…JPGs solve that issue by reducing image file sizes so that they don’t take up too much space, be it in your hard drive or USB or in your camera.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 016 – Say No to Paid Work

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Running Time: 20 minutes

I found this episode buried on a disk somewhere. Apparently I recorded the various parts, edited it, filed it, but never actually published it. Very strange. If I had to guess, I would say it's about a year and a half old. Because of this, the audio quality isn't the best quality in all cases.

 
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 015 – Paranoia of Failure

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Running Time: 15 minutes

Just because you are paranoid, does not mean they are NOT out to get you. I have spent my childhood, and adult life, accepting the fact that everyone expects me to fail. At the very least, what I do is not worth the effort for success. Thanks mom.

A few months ago, I was presented with a huge challenge. The first half of the audio goes back to then. The second half is about how I handled the challenges. This part was recorded a few month later.

 
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Photoshop Tutorial – Adjustment Layers

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Photoshop Tutorial - Adjustment Layers

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Running Time: 6 minutes

In this digital world we live in, you see the ubiquitous JPEG everywhere—practically all images you can find online are in this format. Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG pictures are compressed images that have the .jpg file extension. Basically, JPEGs or JPGs compress images in order to make their file sizes smaller.

The most annoying thing about sending files and pictures online or via email, is to find that your file attachments are too big; and we wouldn’t want that now, would we? Waiting all that time trying to send over files only to have them rejected due to file size…JPGs solve that issue by reducing image file sizes so that they don’t take up too much space, be it in your hard drive or USB or in your camera.

 
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Color Spaces and Color Profiles | Digital Fundamental Tutorial

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Digital Fundamentals - Color Spaces and Color Profiles

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Running Time: 8 minutes

This is an Adobe Photoshop Video tutorial that explains Color Models, Color Modes, Color Spaces, and Color Profiles. This is one of the modules from the Photoshop Basic 1 Video Course. I thought this video was a good example of the course content overall. It's a little bit dry, but I hope you find that it gets right to the point, and educates in a clear, and easy to understand way.

 
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Photoshop Retouching Newsletter August 1, 2013

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Hello Reader,

This week's big revelation for me was getting a chance to experiment with Photoshop CC new Camera Shake Plugin. For a 1st generation, I think it is pretty successful. I fed it like 5 images, and it adequately corrected 2 of them. Doesn't sound great, but when you consider I could not save any of them a month ago, that's not bad.

Here are some more of the more interesting articles I came across this week:

Photoshop CC: Shake Reduction, and how it works
Last year, Adobe announced Shake Reduction, and I immediately thought of these images of my wife and I, from about 25 years ago. I have been waiting for technology to come, that may actually save these images. Now that CC has Shake Reduction, I can tell you that while results will vary, I was overall impressed. Here are some articles about  
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The Art of Retouching Podcast 014 – One Year Later

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Running Time: 21 minutes

I fell off the map for one full year. Not a single podcast was created. It's time to catch up with me and my freelance career. What have I been up for the past year? Why have I not published a single thing? It's an interesting story to the five people who actually listen to these. Oh, I kid. I had actually created this Podcast about 2 months ago when I noticed Twitter and Facebook comments about the first 13 episodes. Even more things have happened since I created this podcast that I hinted at during this episode.

 
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