n8 skow

Well Diane, you could get 100 emails with 100 different replies. Do what
works for 'you'. If your getting the desired results the way you do things
now - why worry bout how everyone else does it... that's valuable time you
could be working!

=)
n8



> I'm playing with the images I get from my digital camera with Photoshop 7
> (just learning PS). I've done lots of tutorials (Janee and RetouchPro,
> Russell Brown and more) and I have '50 Fast Photoshop Techniques' book
and
> now I am wondering which is the best ORDER to do the various 'repairs' an
> image might need or I might want to apply to an image for an effect. So
far
> I am only making images for web sites and posting images on the web, so it
> doesn't seem to make much difference, but I feel I should get into the
right
> practice, especially since I am planning to make actions to batch changes
> and I may in the future wish to make prints on other images.
>
> I guess I am generally confused about the theory of commands which make
> changes to the image itself and those which add layers and in what order
> these should be done, such as those below, which I seem to be using over
and
> over again.
>
>
> A. crop
> B. rotate
> C. levels/curves/set white point
> D. filters
> E. skew or alter shape to fix distortion of buildings, etc.,
> F. selection to alter only a portion of the image (darken, lighten, blur
> etc.)
> G. resize w x h
> Y. sharpen (at the end, I know this much)
> Z. save for web (if appropriate).
>
> Is there a list or cheat sheet somewhere? Send me off for more reading,
> please.
>
> Thanks,
> Diane
>
>
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