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Best Workflow CS5: The Ideal Color Settings for Photoshop and CS5

All of my One-on-One products---whether videos or books---begin by encouraging you to adjust your Creative Suite color settings and load my custom keyboard shortcuts. The color settings file goes by the name Best Workflow (because, I argue, that's the resulting environment); the keyboard shortcuts are dekeKeys.

I've received requests to distribute both. Which is the purpose of today's post.

Photoshop CS5 recommended color settings

I explain how to make your own Best Workflow color settings today. I'll post dekeKeys CS5 as a free download next week. Read more » 

Sample tech support question

Hello gang,

Today marks the first day since last Summer that I haven't had a video ready and waiting for you on a Tuesday. And the first time since Martini Hour began on January 27 of 2009 (same year, btw) that we haven't had some sort of Tuesday morning media post ready for your polite and encouraging consumption. In other words, today is when the PMDTs (Photoshop media delirium tremens) really set in.

no video here

While I figure out what to do with my future Tuesdays, I thought I'd offer up the following: While going through a batch of lynda.com tech support questions, I came across one that, it seems to me, might have universal appeal. Here's the backstory, the question, and the answer: Read more » 

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #10: Color Settings

Feature #10: Color Settings

Hey gang,

The word is out: Feature #10 is Color Settings, Photoshop's command for regulating all things related to color management. It affects every image you create. Color Settings is located under the Edit menu, in case you're wondering.

For those of you tracking the contest, the winner is jude, who guessed "Edit... Color Settings...," which is spot-on.

Fully 25 of you guessed this feature (or something very much like it, as in "color management" or "color profiles," both of which are fundamentally correct). And frankly that amazes me. It means a surprising minority of you are reading my mind with an alarming degree of accuracy.

Which is excellent news. Because now it's time to guess Feature #9. Hint: It takes something bad and makes it good. Click here to take the survey (or skip it if you filled it out last week) and submit your entry! Read more »