Martini Hour 029, In Which Colleen Implores You to Edit Yourself (and Your Photos)

Never ones to rest on our lounging accomplishments, which are many and legendary, this week Deke and I invent two new segments for Martini Hour, which we enjoy over icy end-of-summer gin and tonics. First up, Shameless Plug, in which Deke discusses the new Photoshop Top 40 video series, a little about this week's installment, and where the hermetically sealed envelope is stashed that holds his #1 Photoshop feature. I go on to invent another new segment, Lounge Lexicon, which Deke tries futiley to turn into a chair-turned-man-eating-robot, but really gives us the chance to distinguish between seemingly interchangable terms in the digital imaging vernacular that aren't really interchangable at all.

 Here's what we discuss between slurps of our refreshing G&Ts:

Shameless Plug: Photoshop Top 40By now, most of you have seen Deke's new video series, the Photoshop Top 40, a rapid fire consideration of one of Deke's forty-most favorite features in Photoshop. This week covers Save for Web (and Devices). We chat a little about the series, a little about how he decides which features land where in his countdown,  a little about why one would actually want to save for web, and of course, exactly  which devices Adobe has in mind? (By the way, we are working to get it on iTunes. Stay tuned.)

Lounge Lexicon: Photo Editing vs. Image EditingThis week, we also try to distinguish between these two phrases, one which refers to pixel wrangling and one which refers to honing your shoot down to just the best shots. Why one comes before the other, and how, under no circumstance should you send grandma 10 photos of roughly the same thing no matter how cute your kid is. Either way, dekeIfornians, they both contain the word edit. Edit people. Control yourselves. Craft your stories and your pictures. Please.

Toast of the WeekWe toast being able to find your car in an airport garage after a long trip (courtesy of a tip from our friend Derrick Story.)

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