In 20-30 minutes you’ll be able to make changes to your color balance in under a minute and you’ll find it a very useful skill to have in your image processing toolbox.

This tutorial will cover the basic steps of creating your own albums and uploading images. Follow along noticing the red arrows I’ve drawn with my crayon to draw attention to certain areas.

How much RAM? Win7 machines should have a minimum of 4gb. Vista 2gb but will greatly benefit from 4gb, a very noticeable difference. For most gaming 6gb of RAM will get you to the “point of marginal returns”, for most image processing 12gb, and light to moderate video rending 24gb, and heavy video rendering 48gb+.

Overall the experience of sending consumer products from the USA to Thailand has been very positive, easy, and I’ve been able to get the products I need/want at greatly reduced prices when compared to local prices. And many times I’ve ordered and received professional camera and computer items just not available here at any price.

During workshops one of the most requested “can you show me how” techniques is selective saturation. The technique produces eye catching images popular with amateur photographers and I think with good reason.

This week we’re going to put the pieces together and talk about how they relate to gamuts, color profiling our monitors, and how we process images in our processing software such as Lightroom or Photoshop and then how we see the same image when posted on the web, made into a print, or on our own monitors at home.