Adobe Bridge & Camera RAW

Photoshop is a daunting programme, especially in the beginning, so in this 12 part film series Mark Cleghorn rips it to the essential skills that the day to day photographer needs to use in a working week.

In Part 1 - Mark discusses the outline of the the journey of the file, and shows the basics of what is to come from download to a file finished and ready for printing at his Photo Lab Loxley Colour.

Part 1 includes - The Basic - Edit, Re-Name, Save to, Colour Correct, Contrast, Retouch, Layers, Enhance, Black & White, Straighten, Crop, Save As

Inspired by a client shoot in 1997 Mark Cleghorn talks about and shoots a creative nude session based on these themes.

When a past client comes to you with a specific idea for a session and images it becomes more of a commercial shoot as the client is the real art director of the idea. Its then up to you as a photographer to put your creative spin on the images especially when it then develops into a series of sessions and images for clients to use as wall art in their homes and even offices.

Mark developed this idea into what he called his "Red Shoe Diaries" which in its self became quite a popular development in a fetish style of a Nude or Boudoir portrait shoot. This type of work not only attracted clients from just in his home town of Cardiff but from all over the UK.

Part 2 Red Shoes

also includes using presets in Photoshop Bridge and ACR to proof selective colour

+18 Film

This training film is designed to improve you Photoshop skills by showing you how Mark Cleghorn uses the programme to design unique wedding albums for his clients with some great PS tips along the way.

Taken from his training DVD Album Design Using Photoshop - The guide to successful wedding album design, you will get to see from the setting up of a page layout, making actions to automate the work-flow as well as techniques on adding colour to black and white images.

Part 1 includes - Introduction, The demo album, Work-flow for design via Bridge, Looking at design ideas, Setting up the Page Template, Margins, Rules, Guides

This film is an introduction to using CS4 Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW for editing images, re-naming, colour correction and basic image enhancement. In other words doing most of the work before even touching Photoshop.

Bridge and Camera RAW part 3 - In this film Mark Cleghorn shows you how to set up basic presets in ACR to produce split toned images etc. In the second part of the film he demonstrates the function of setting up a favorites folder and duplicating images to it for a fast and efficient work flow

Adobe Camera RAW - Basic Presets, Split Tone, Copy and Moving Files

This film is an introduction to using CS4 Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW for editing images, re-naming, colour correction and basic image enhancement. In other words doing most of the work before even touching Photoshop.

Bridge and Camera RAW part 2 - covers the Review Mode, Key-wording and Meta data, basics of Camera RAW to adjust Exposure, Colour, Retouching as well as introducing some Automation to the work-flow

This film is an introduction to using CS4 Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW for editing images, re-naming, colour correction and basic image enhancement. In other words doing most of the work before even touching Photoshop.

Bridge and Camera RAW part 1 - covers the basic window and layouts, edditing, deleting, workflow and re-naming the files with speed