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Improving your Prints October 2008   Using Photoshop CS3 I suggest opening all of your camera JPEGs using Photoshop’s Raw Convertor. This will allow far greater control of your images in less time than trying to do all the alterations in Photoshop. To set this to happen automatically, in Photoshop select EDIT/PREFERENCES/FILE HANDLING and in [...]

To soften the tones, I use a small amount of blur blended in at various > opacities – you just have to play around till you get the effect you > want….and another layer with diffuse glow (in the filters menus) again > blended in to taste…. there is no formula – I just do [...]

High Pass Sharpening On the Layer Palette select Background Layer and right click. Select Duplicate Layer With this Duplicate Layer highlighted – From the Filter Menu and Other select High Pass Set the radius to 10 and click OK Back in the Layer Palette select HARD LIGHT from the drop down menu In the OPACITY [...]