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About the Author | |
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Credits | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Core Photoshop Skills for Landscape and Nature Photographers | |
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An Approach to Photoshop | |
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Photoshop and Nature Photography | |
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Photo-Based Approach | |
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More Ansel Adams than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs | |
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A Workflow Overview | |
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What Would Ansel Do? | |
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Ansel Adams's Legacy | |
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Art versus Science | |
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Adams's Work Was a Model of Craft | |
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How Many Tools Did He Use Anyway? | |
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Can Indoor Work Match the Outdoors? | |
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Expressive Images | |
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Variations on a Theme | |
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Interpretations | |
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Start Right | |
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Shoot It Right from the Start | |
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The Exposure Challenge | |
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Overexposure Is Bad, Too | |
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Exposure Answers | |
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Film Concerns | |
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Sharpness | |
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Thinking Ahead | |
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Visualization and Composition | |
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Digital Improv | |
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Setting the Stage: Basic Steps | |
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Open and Save As | |
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Rotate | |
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Crop | |
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Straightening Horizons | |
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Overall Adjustments | |
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Dealing with Color | |
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Fixing Colors that Record Poorly | |
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A Short Course in Camera Raw | |
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Comparing RAW and JPEG files | |
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RAW Done Smart | |
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Crop and Rotate | |
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Workflow Options | |
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Auto Settings | |
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Tonal Adjustments | |
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Color Adjustments | |
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Fixing Lens Aberrations | |
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Save Your Work | |
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Setting Up Camera Raw for Your Camera. | |
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Layers and Other Essential Tools | |
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Layers 101 | |
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Why Not Selections? | |
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Keys to Understanding Layers | |
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Ansel Adams Worked in Layers | |
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Flexible, Isolated Control | |
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Easing into Layers with Adjustment Layers | |
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Selections and Layer Masks | |
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Duplicating Layers for Effect Control | |
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Layer Management | |
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Developing Midtones | |
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Back to Curves | |
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Another Midtone Tool | |
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Using Shadow/Highlight to Tweak Specific Tones | |
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Intensifying Sky Tonalities | |
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Opening Up Shadows | |
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Color Adjustment Refined | |
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What Is Real Color Anyway? | |
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Colorcast Correction | |
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Adding Warmth | |
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Warm and Cold Contrast | |
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Beware Saturation Fascination | |
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Correcting Color with Hue/Saturation | |
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Better Images through Local Adjustments | |
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Dodging and Burning | |
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Basic Eye Control | |
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The Dreaded Brightness/Contrast Control | |
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Further Adventures in Eye Control | |
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A New Level of Adjustment | |
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Selections and the Layer Mask | |
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Color Range Tool | |
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Back to the Beginning | |
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Putting It All Together: An Approach that Works | |
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One Step at a Time | |
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Evaluating the Photo | |
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Re-Examining the Photo | |
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Clean It Up | |
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Debris Removal | |
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Making the Harder Clone | |
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Using the Spot Healing Brush | |
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Tilting Trees and Other Perspective Anomalies. | |
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Special Techniques for the Nature Photographer | |
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Extending the Tonal Range of Scenes | |
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Photography's Dual Nature | |
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An Arbitrary Line? | |
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Tonal Range Manipulation | |
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Two Exposures for Better Tonalities | |
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The Photoshop Combination | |
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When the Tonalities Are Not Easily Separated | |
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Twice-Processed RAW Files | |
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High Dynamic Range Adjustment | |
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Classic Black and White | |
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Seeing Black and White | |
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Photographing in Black and White | |
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Shooting Black and White versus Converting from Color | |
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Channels for Black and White | |
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Channel Mixer Work | |
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Black and White from Camera Raw | |
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Multiple Conversions in the Same Image | |
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Toning Black-and-White Images | |
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Finishing the Image | |
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Sizing and Sharpening - Why Last in the Process? | |
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Sizing Surprises | |
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Sizing in Photoshop | |
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Size Based on the Native Resolution | |