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› › t he sm a l l busine s s a nd f reel a nce c o ach THIS REALLY WORKS WELL ONLY WHEN YOU ASK QUESTIONS UP FRONT ABOUT THE FINAL USE OF THE IMAGES. so why would they now provide digital fles? Not only is that Drop in a survey question that states, “The additional product closed-minded, there’s no valid reason to withhold digital fles. I wish XYZ sold is ________ because I’d buy that right away!” If someone wants to reproduce an image you shot and sold or The cool thing about this answer is that sometimes you actually delivered, it can easily be done. Scanners are available almost do have that product or service available and you can make a everywhere, and any halfway decent, 12-megapixel, point-and- quick sale. Otherwise, you might add the product or service to shoot camera can capture a printworthy shot of a photo hang- your offerings and open new markets to existing clients. ing on any wall. The only thing you’ll do by holding back digital Besides sending a message that you care what your custom- fles from your customers is annoy them. ers think and value their opinions, you also open the door for yet The key here is to frst ask your customers if they want digital another reason to go back to those customers (even the ones fles from you. If you’re providing them, you can charge for who didn’t bother responding to the survey) with a follow-up them—maybe not a lot, but something. Here’s an example: Last email that might say something like this: “Wow! Thanks! We year my son had school pictures taken and 5x7 prints were less learned so much from our customers and we’re thrilled to offer than $20, but a digital JPEG with reprint rights from the photog- the brand-new products and services that you asked for.” Then rapher was $79. We bought a few prints of different poses in a tell everyone about all the cool new things you sell. It will make package, and we bought our favorite pose as a digital fle. Our you seem responsive and engaged, while giving you yet another son was then able to use the digital fle in his Facebook profle. chance to get in front of customers with a selling opportunity. Think about this: Would your customers like to have a rather small digital version of your image(s) for their social media use? GETTING SERIOUS SURVEY PARTICIPATION Would it be worth giving this away for free as a part of any pur- There are dozens of survey companies and online forms, some of chased package, just to help promote yourself. You could give which are free and others cost a little. But here’s an easy way to away a Facebook-friendly shot as long as it has your company’s motivate people to complete a short survey: Offer a free session Web address on it (in a very tasteful, subtle way). We call that valued at $1,000, and $500 worth of prints, to one random survey free advertising. respondent. In addition, every survey respondent receives a $50 coupon toward any of your company’s services. The coupon has SURVEY YOUR CUSTOMERS a $50 value for them; however, you can easily make that back by Besides these strategic questions for specifc circumstances, there simply getting that customer to walk through your doors again. are groups of questions that can do even more. When was the last time you surveyed your customers? By asking current (or for- ANALYZING THE RESULTS mer) customers for a little help in understanding why they chose Once you get feedback from your survey, start looking at deliver- you for their photography, design project, etc., you get in front of ing products or services that customers say they want, and change them with a soft sales pitch. your business offerings to reflect their demands. Asking questions Your survey should include things such as, “Which service can help you to see where you aren’t communicating well about is XYZ Photography best at delivering?” Then list your primary existing services; understand how your customers see you and why services, leaving space for “Other.” This tells every survey taker they value you so you can push that in your marketing; and it can about all the services you provide, and invariably cause some reveal holes in your offerings that you can easily fll. customers to discover a product or service they didn’t even know One last thing that you may not want to hear from customers › › www. photoshopuser .com you provided. are things they don’t want. You may be all excited about some- Then ask what they think you should talk about in your mar- thing you produce or do that takes a lot of time and resources— keting. If you regularly get feedback that, “Your photo sessions such as a slide show with musical accompaniment on your site were really fun and you made me laugh,” but you emphasize so customers can review their images with music playing—but quick delivery, maybe you need to change things. your customers just don’t care. So stop doing it! Q 101

PRODUCT REVIEWS EXPOSURE 5 Emulsion Emulator for Photoshop Review by Daniel M. East After thoroughly enjoying previous versions of Exposure (giving version 4 a 5-star review), I had high hopes for Exposure 5 to take emulsion emulation to places that actual flm types might not have imagined. This incredible hybrid of past, present, and futur- emulation for the professional photographer and graphic artist istic analog flm effects has come a long way from its frst release. that will appeal to independent designers or more advanced Most notably, insofar as new features are concerned, Alien Skin consumers, as well. has given its vintage-retro-loving plug-in a new, darker user inter- No matter whether you want a retro look, grungy effects, face and preset browser. Navigating is faster, and performance or just to re-create a vintage environment for your images, improvement isn’t solely dependent on your hardware, making Exposure 5 is professional-grade power that can help you work this a noticeable upgrade for fans of previous versions. While less to achieve stunningly high-quality output. When a creative Exposure was always great at reproducing favorite flm emulsions plug-in starts with its prior versions having stellar reviews, the and effects, version 5 provides more control and precision to cre- bar is set fairly high for the next incarnation. In this case, Alien ate a richer, more dynamic look. Skin’s Exposure 5 clears the hurdle. ■ Another noticeable improvement is in the appearance of the printed output, particularly when the plug-in is used for advertise- Company: Alien Skin Software Price: $149 ments or posters. Exposure 5 presents something that the trendy Web: www.alienskin.com Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆ effects seen in social media images will never achieve compared Hot: New textures; new efects; better performance to Alien Skin’s classic creative consistency with the best analog Not: flms in photographic history. This is comprehensive analog-flm ACTUAL MULTIPLE MONITORS Windows Solution for Multiple Displays Review by Bruce Bicknell Flexibility and real estate are essential for my animation and graphics workflow, and I’ve always used multiple displays, but the toolbars, menus, and other items that I needed on the sec- ond monitor were a bit cumbersome. I’ve tried many products to solve this dilemma, but nothing ever really captured what was needed—until now. The Actual Multiple Monitors name really does describe what it is and what it does! As I dived into this review, I was surprised to fnd many robust features. First, the program other noteworthy features, such as Window Snapping, Desk- › › photoshop user › december 2013 mand. Next, I found the Window Location feature very helpful for to alleviate my frustrations when working with a dual-moni- offers the most-requested functionality of having a taskbar top Mirroring, and the Divider; but you’ll need to check those on each monitor. This allows you to have your Start button, out on your own, as I could go on for two pages and my editor toolbars, lists, and many other items available at your com- won’t let me. Actual Multiple Monitors is the program I’ve been waiting as it lets you assign a monitor for each application. Now, I can have my graphics programs open on my main monitor while tor setup. The functionality is there, the price is right, and it will my Offce programs (email, Word, etc.) open on the second improve your workflow. ■ monitor—where I always drag them anyway! It doesn’t sound like much, but it sure helps my workflow (and frustration). Price: $24.95 Company: Actual Tools Another nice feature in Actual Multiple Monitors is a set Hot: Commands on each screen; Hotkeys; Desktop Divider more effcient. As with anything new, these may take time to Not: get used to, but well worth it once you do. There are many 102 of custom Hotkeys to help professionals make their workflow Web: www.actualtools.com Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆

DXO VIEWPOINT 2 Unique and Effective Perspective Correction Review by Erik Vlietinck ViewPoint 2 uses the company’s lens database to correct an image. It installs as a standalone app or an Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, or Aperture plug-in. Lens distortion, which is the frst panel in the sidebar, is corrected automatically, based on DxO’s database. ViewPoint 2 also comes with a Horizon Straightening tool The Perspective tool corrects vertical, horizontal, 4-point, and a Crop tool. I found it best to leave the Crop tool in Auto and 8-point distortions. You can fnd the frst three in other mode, which will do a good job of cropping only as much as apps, as well (Capture One Pro 7, for example, has an identical really needed. If you want to change aspect ratio, however, perspective-correction tool); however, the 8-point correction you can crop manually. feature in ViewPoint 2 is unique and offers dramatic improve- DxO ViewPoint 2 fxes perspective problems, lens distortion, ments in perspective correction. tilted horizons, and deformed elements at the edges of the The 8-point perspective correction allows you to place the frame. The most important reason to upgrade to the new ver- correction lines on different planes. This enables correction of sion, however, is the 8-point perspective repair option. ■ photos with complex vanishing points, or when the elements that need fxing aren’t all at the same distance from where the Company: DxO Labs Price: $79 photo was shot. Web: www.dxo.com Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆ The next feature on my list is Volume Deformation, which is quite successful at correcting organic forms at the edge of the Hot: 8-point perspective correction; lens-distortion correction Not: frame. This tool can also correct distortions after a perspective fx. BRIANNA GRAHAM ACTIONS Four Collections to Set You Free Review by Michael Corsentino As a longtime admirer of acclaimed portrait photographer Brianna Graham, I’ve often marveled at her gorgeous postprocessing styles and wished I knew what her Photoshop secret sauce was. I even called her once and asked her straight out, “Brianna, what’s the secret? Your postprocessing is insanely good! Any plans to sell actions so the rest of us can try and look as good?” She replied, Once the housekeeping is done, the real fun begins with the “No dice.” Alas, I’d have to toil in Photoshop a bit longer without Urban, Artistic, and Vintage Collections. Whether it’s toning, Brianna’s help. textures, vintage looks, or a vast array of completely editable, But fnally, my prayers and the prayers of countless other layer mask-based styles, enhancements, and effects, these three Brianna Graham fans have been answered with the recent release collections give users endless creative options. of four Brianna Graham Action Collections for Photoshop: Perfect Brianna’s step-by-step video tutorials, available free online, Workflow, Urban Collection, Artistic Collection, and Vintage Col- offer a valuable resource for instruction and inspiration. They lection. The four collections are sold separately or in bundles, and clearly demonstrate how flexible, easy, fast, and powerful these each is designed to work together as a suite—providing a com- creative tools are. ■ plete workflow solution—or separately as standalone compo- › › www. photoshopuser .com nents. They don’t disappoint! Company: Brianna Graham Actions Price: Starting at $99 Perfect Workflow is the foundation of the collection and Web: http://briannagraham.com/actionswp Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆ quickly tackles with ease all of the important, time-consuming Hot: Speed; fexibility; layer mask based; create unique looks postprocessing tasks, such as retouching, color correcting, warm- Not: ing, and sharpening. 103

rev ie ws › › FLORABELLA COLLECTION Photoshop Actions Review by Michael Corsentino MICHAEL CORSENTINO When it comes to investing in Photoshop actions, I have three criteria: First, they have to do something substantially different Before After than actions I already use; second, they need to allow me to customize their looks; and third, the actions should work for everyone. One of my personal favorites is Classic Film from synergistically, building on one another as part of a complete the Classic Workfow Collection—but that’s just the tip of the workfow solution. iceberg. Add to that Florabella’s textures, overlays, papers, The Florabella Collection meets each of these demands, frames, and templates, and you have all your bases covered. and then some. In this collection, Tennessee-based photogra- Shana continues to release new collections on a regular pher Shana Rae Rosengarten has created a family of Photo- basis, each as good as the last, or better. In addition, Flora- shop action sets covering each aspect of the photographic bella’s bundles and frequent specials make it easy to build postprocess: workfow, retouching, black-and-white effects, your library over time. For those hungry for more knowledge, creative toning, textures, haze overlays, and more. Shana’s free video tutorials guide users step by step through These actions are gorgeous, highly fexible, powerful, and the best practices and creative applications. ■ packed with options, yet they’re intuitive and easy to use, each with a fully customizable layer stack. Consequently, they’ve Company: Florabella Collection Price: Starting at $89 gained a large and loyal user base (myself included). With eight Web: www.forabellacollection.com Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆ action collections to choose from—Color & Light, Colorplay, Deluxe B/W, Classic Workfow, Retouch & Makeover, Spring Hot: Flexible; intuitive; fully editable layer stack Collection, Luxe II, and Muse (the latest)—there’s something Not: SMOOTH SKINS 2 Retouching Actions for Photoshop Review by Daniel M. East Improving upon an already outstanding set of Photoshop actions is a task that requires developers to somehow outdo themselves for their customers; however, when they respond to their end users, the results lead them to smooth sailing in the often rough seas of the creative professional products. Once again, Digital Heavens cruises past the competition with their effortless set of skin-retouching action sets that take users on a gorgeous ride. (again, because it’s nondestructive) to find and fine-tune the In the original version of Smooth Skins (reviewed in 2011), Like the previous version, it’s fun to try each of the presets › › photoshop user › december 2013 ral to supernatural to action-figure skin surfaces with a wave of smooth enough), you can revert to your original, and keep the actions allowed even the grittiest of portraits to be refined. look you want. If the subject is too smooth for you (or not It was done in such a way that your results could go from natu- your brush, but Smooth Skins 2 has a much broader group of going forward. As always, Digital Heavens offers excellent tutorial and example videos to help you set sail toward some options. In this version, you can adjust environment simulations that take your subject from the beach to studio to “cartoon” in incredible-looking portraiture. ■ less time, and with more presets. There are now more textures, facial feature-specific enhancements (for eyes, teeth, and lips), Company: Digital Heavens Price: £39.95 and skin tones from beach tans to glamour image. Of course, there’s no loss of incremental adjustment, and all of this is non- Hot: Fast; photorealistic; nondestructive; 8-bit and 16-bit support (PC) destructive, so you can add as much or as little as you wish in Not: your image. Web: www.digitalheavens.co.uk Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆ 104

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rev ie ws › › PHOTOGENIC ION Portable Power on the Go Review by Michael Corsentino Battery power for on-location shooting just got a whole lot lighter and less expensive with the recent introduction of the Photogenic ION battery. No more gas generators; bulky, old-fashioned inverters; or tons of extension cords! The ION’s lithium-ion pure sine wave inverter converts DC battery power to AC power, and it’s been engineered from the ground up to handle the demands of today’s sophisticated, digital-fash electronics on Photogenic Professional Lighting and many other AC-based fash systems. When it comes to performance, the ION is no slouch either, Weighing in at just 3.5 lbs, with a compact 7.5x4.4x3.3\" delivering quick recycle times and an impressive 1000+ fash footprint, the ION is perfect for on-the-go lighting. With its pops—depending on the make, model, and power output set- solid-built quality, the ION tackles the rigors of location shoot- ting of your lights. It’s compatible with most monolights and ing with ease. The dual, three-prong AC outlets on the ION comes with a three-year warranty. All in all, the Photogenic allow you to operate two studio fash units, or a strobe and ION has an enviable feature set at a reasonable price point. ■ another piece of equipment, on location at the same time. Another welcome feature is a standard USB port: Imagine how great that will be for charging your cell phone so it isn’t dead Company: Photogenic Professional Lighting Price: $399 after a long day of shooting. The ION’s LED power indicator Web: www.photogenic.com Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆ provides valuable charge-level feedback and its quick-change Hot: Lightweight; compact; portable; afordable battery is easy to replace in seconds with a fully charged spare (additional batteries are $145). Not: TOPAZ RESTYLE Photoshop Plug-in for Photographic Effects Review by Daniel M. East Digital photos offer rich, clear, and dynamic image quality; however, the lighting, color, and clarity can make the differ- ence between another nice landscape, skyline, or portrait and one that can hang on a museum wall. ReStyle from Topaz Labs makes its debut to fill that need and set the scene for creating photos with compelling rich- can create, but be warned: You may lose yourself in the role ness and quality. From the familiar interface that Topaz fans › › photoshop user › december 2013 visual styles. Between the creatively named presets and its as you see what you can do with your own images. This is know, ReStyle does what its name suggests: It allows the user to introduce seemingly limitless combinations of tones and ability to mask/select specific photo elements, ReStyle per- especially true when you “remaster” both newer and older images. Without question, this ReStyle gets a standing ova- forms well from just the presets, or it can really dig into the role with blended, customized variations that look the part. tion at the curtain call. ■ In other words, you can reproduce what your mind’s eye saw when you shot the initial photo. Company: Topaz Labs, LLC Price: $59.99 From dynamic-lighting effects to delicate tonal tweaking Hot: Output quality; user-created preset options; tablet support first act to the finale, leaving you wanting more. Download Not: the free trial version and see how many moving images you 106 with each well-labeled slider, this plug-in takes you from its Web: www.topazlabs.com Rating: ◆◆◆◆◆

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depa r t men t › › PHOTOSHOP TIPS COLIN SMITH Summer is offcially over and it’s fall. It’s time to get into some matically choose Camera Raw for conversions instead of Merge mean tips and tricks by the fre. Here are some tips that I rustled to HDR Pro. Choose Photoshop (PC: Edit)>Preferences>File up for you to make your cold evenings a bit warmer. Handling and turn on Use Adobe Camera Raw to Convert Documents from 32 Bit to 16/8 Bit. When you open your fle CLOSE MULTIPLE TABS and choose Image>Mode>8 or 16 Bits/Channel, Camera Raw Sometimes it happens quickly, and sometimes it takes a while, will be the tool of choice for making your conversions instead of but eventually, it will happen to you: you’ll have a ton of the HDR Toning dialog. documents open in Photoshop that all need to be closed. You could go through the process of clicking the little “x” icon at “CONTROL”-AWARE SCALE the top of each of the tabs until they’re all closed, but that’s Content-Aware Scale is an amazing tool that allows you to a lot of clicking! Try this: Option-click (PC: Alt-click) on one of scale an image vertically or horizontally. What’s different about the “x” icons. All the tabs will now close one after the other. this tool is that important parts of the image can keep their If a document is unsaved, you’ll have the option to save or shape while other parts with unimportant detail get squished disregard changes. or stretched. This is useful for things like changing the shape of a photograph to fit within a spread of a page. Usually, Photoshop does a good job of analyzing the photograph auto- VIDEO QUALITY BUTTON Photoshop CC has the ability to play back video with a surpris- matically and squishing or stretching the right bits. By using an ing amount of effciency. There are times when the video is alpha channel, you can tell Photoshop what parts to protect. too large to play back smoothly. You have the option to play Press the Q key to enter Quick Mask mode. Choose the Brush the video and allow it to load into RAM and then, when it’s tool (B) and with a soft black brush, paint over the areas that loaded, play it again for a smooth playback. There’s another you want to keep. Press the Q key again to turn the mask into a option, and that is to change the playback resolution to a selection. Choose Select>Save Selection, give it a name, and click smaller amount. Click the Set Playback Options icon (gear) in OK. Press Command-D (PC: Ctrl-D) to deselect. Select the Move the Timeline panel and lower the Resolution. By doing this, tool (V) and choose Edit>Content Aware Scale (make sure you’re you’re lowering the quality of the preview only and it allows a not working on the Background layer). In the Options Bar, click smoother playback of the video frames. This doesn’t change the Protect drop-down menu and choose your alpha channel. the quality of the actual video that you’re editing, as it will play When you scale, you’ll see your area protected. If you see the back perfectly when it’s rendered. › › photoshop user › december 2013 RAW TONE MAPPING When working with 32-bit images (HDR), the process of com- pressing the appearance of the photograph into a usable 16- or 8-bit fle is called tone mapping. This is where the photo gets its flavor. Perhaps you want a stylized-looking image, or maybe you prefer a more realistic-looking photograph. Camera Raw is an excellent tool for tone mapping because it’s supported in Photoshop CC. There’s an option in Preferences that will auto- 110

› › phot o shop t ip s opposite behavior, open the Channels panel (Window>Channels) under the Kind drop-down menu. When you’re done, click the and click on your alpha channel. Press Command-I (PC: Ctrl-I) to switch icon at the far right to toggle off the flter and show all invert the channel, then click on the RGB channel. Try the Content- the layers again. Aware Scale again and it will work as expected. RESET YOUR TOOLS SAVING WORKSPACES Sometimes when you start getting down some deep Photoshop There are a lot of panels in Photoshop and they all do differ- rabbit holes, you can do some really weird things to your tool ent things; however, you may not want to do those things, or settings. Here’s a quick-and-easy way to reset your tools to their not right now. You probably know that you can drag panels default behavior. When a tool is selected, you’ll see its icon in the around and organize them into different groups. You close the top-left corner. If you Right-click the icon, you’ll see an option ones you don’t need and open the ones you do. This can get to Reset Tool. Click it to reset that particular tool. If you want to time-consuming and cumbersome to do over and over again. reset all your tools, choose the Reset All Tools option. The best thing to do is to set up some custom workspaces that you can reuse. The frst step is to set up your workspace the PANO WITH A GOPRO way you like it. Choose Window>Workspace>New Workspace, Have you ever tried to merge photographs into a seamless or choose it from the drop-down menu at the far right of the panorama? It works well most of the time. Where it gets tricky is Options Bar. Name your workspace, decide if you want to include when you’re using an extreme wide-angle lens, such as a fsheye custom Keyboard Shortcuts and Menus, and click Save. Now, you or a GoPro camera. The trick is to get rid of the lens distortion can recall this workspace whenever you need it from the tops of frst. In this case, I have a fve-image panorama taken from a DJI the same menus you just used above. Phantom Quadcopter with a GoPro Hero 3 camera attached. Open the images in Photoshop and choose Filter>Lens Correc- LOTS OF LAYERS tion. Under the Auto Correction Tab, choose your camera and If you use a lot of layers, there’s a very useful tool for you to lens from the options in Search Criteria (GoPro is an option in fnd particular working layers quickly. Layer flters were intro- Photoshop CC and CS6). Once you’ve corrected the lens distor- duced in Photoshop CS6, and for some reason, not that many tion, save the corrected fles. Now you can easily merge the pho- people seem to be using them. The layer flters are a series of tographs together. Choose File>Automate>Photomerge, click the fve icons at the top of the Layers panel. If you click an icon, it Auto option in the Layout section, and click the Add Open Files will hide all the layers in the Layers panel, except for those that button. Photoshop will now merge the selected photographs into match the criteria. The layers themselves aren’t hidden in the a seamless panorama. Q image; only in the Layers panel. You can f lter layers by Pixels, Adjustment Layers, Type, Shape Layers, and Smart Objects. Of course, you can have more than one criteria selected at a time. This makes it fast to find the layers that you’re looking for without having to scroll endlessly. It also helps when you want to group similar layers together. There are also more options › › www. photoshopuser .com 111 ALL IMAGES BY COLIN SMITH

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