This document provides information on various Photoshop and Lightroom techniques including: - How to record actions in Photoshop by beginning recording, performing operations, and stopping recording. - How to create, load, and export presets in Lightroom by selecting settings, naming the preset, and importing or exporting preset template files. - Tips for editing HDR files, panoramic images, and composite photos in Photoshop, including considerations for file size when editing panoramas. - An assignment to practice techniques like recording a Lightroom preset, making a panorama, HDR image, and composite photo.

1. Photoshop Masks, Smart objects and masking techniques

3. Understanding the Pen Tool
The Pen Tool will make a path for
your mask. Lets look at the
Anatomy of a Path

4. Straight Lines
The Pen Tool will make a path for
your mask. Lets look at the
Anatomy of a Path
 The Pen tool want s
you to at the beginning
and end of each
straight line segment.
Start by click on where
you like the points of a
triangle to appear

5. Making Curves and a Circle
The Pen Tool will make a path for
your mask. Lets look at the
Anatomy of a Path
 With Just tow anchor
points and four related
handles you should be
able to create a shape
that resembles

6. Photoshop Masking Techniques
When making a mask tih

7. Recording Actions
Keep in mind the following
guidelines when recording actions:
Results depend on file and program
setting variables, such as the active
layer and the foreground color. For
example, a 3‑pixel Gaussian blur
won’t create the same effect on a
72‑ppi file as on a 144‑ppi file. Nor
will Color Balance work on a
grayscale file.

8. Recording Actions
You can record your own Actions
with a few easy steps
Open a file.
In the Actions panel, click the Create
New Action button , or choose New
Action from the Actions panel menu.
Enter an action name, select an action
set, and set additional options:Function
Key Assigns a keyboard shortcut to the
action. You can choose any combination
of a function key, the Ctrl key (Windows)
or Command key (Mac OS), and the Shift
key (for example, Ctrl+Shift+F3), with
these exceptions: In Windows, you
cannot use the F1 key, nor can you use
F4 or F6 with the Ctrl key.Note: If you
assign an action the same shortcut that is
used for a command, the shortcut will
apply the action rather than the
command.

9. Recording Actions
You can record your own Actions
with a few easy steps
Click Begin Recording. The Begin
Recording button in the Actions
panel turns red .Important: When
recording the Save As command, do
not change the filename. If you enter
a new filename, that new name is
recorded and used each time you run
the action. Before saving, if you
navigate to a different folder, you can
specify a different location without
having to specify a filename.

10. Recording Actions
You can record your own Actions
with a few easy steps
Perform the operations and
commands you want to record.Not
all tasks in actions can be recorded
directly; however, you can insert
most nonrecordable tasks using
commands in the Actions panel
menu.
To stop recording, either click the
Stop Playing/Recording button, or
choose Stop Recording from the
Actions panel menu. (In Photoshop,
you can also press the Esc key.)

11. Links to download
actions
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?exc=16&cat=19

12. Lightroom Presets and Automation
Presets a group of recorded edits to
a file. You can record repetitive edits
and save them to use later. There
are many 3rd party actions that you
can load to Lightroom that can help
you stream line your time and
editing. Also you can record your
actions to use later and to apply over
many files at once

13. Making a Preset
Presets you create are based on the
current settings of the selected
photo.
•In the Develop module, click the
Create New Preset (+) button at the
top of the Presets panel or choose
Develop > New Preset.
•Click Check All to select everything
or click Check None to deselect
everything, and then click to select
each of the settings to include in the
preset.
•Type a name in the Preset Name
box, specify which folder the preset
should appear in, and click Create.
The preset is added to the list in the
Presets panel in the specified folder.

14. Making a Preset

15. Loading and Exporting a Preset
Import
To import a preset, right-click
(Windows) or Control-click
(Mac OS) the area where you
want the preset to appear and
choose Import. Double-click
the preset template file.
Export
You can export presets you’ve
created to share with
colleagues or to use on a
different computer. Preset
templates are saved with an
.lrtemplate extension.
To export a preset, right-click
(Windows) or Control-click
(Mac OS) a preset and choose
Export. Type the name of the
preset template file and click
Save.

16. Loading and Exporting a Preset
Import
To import a preset, right-click
(Windows) or Control-click
(Mac OS) the area where you
want the preset to appear and
choose Import. Double-click
the preset template file.
Export
You can export presets you’ve
created to share with
colleagues or to use on a
different computer. Preset
templates are saved with an
.lrtemplate extension.
To export a preset, right-click
(Windows) or Control-click
(Mac OS) a preset and choose
Export. Type the name of the
preset template file and click
Save.

18. Editing in Photoshop from Lightroom
When you are editing in Lightroom
you can now edit directly in
Photoshop to do your heavy lifting

19. File Handling and Saving Presets
When working from one
program to another you can
customize how you it handles
your file and how it names
them when you export

20. HDR Files in Photoshop
To do HDR files you need to
have several photos with the
different exposures to take
advantage of the all features
in HDR Pro

21. Editing Panoramics
Hint:
When editing Panoramics you
need to be aware of file size
and not give Photoshop too
many files

22. You Can Bring in Multiple Files as
Layers
Now you can select more than
one photo from lightroom and
take it to Photoshop and make
a composite image

23. Homework
•Record one Preset in
Lightroom
•Make one Panoramic Image
•Make one HDR image in
Photoshop
•And Make one composite
photo