Congrats! Dan, you will always be the greatest mentor I could have wished for—thank you so much for showing us the way!

I have not found linear profiles to be that useful in my workflow. However, I do find that different camera LUTs can provide a "creative" starting point. There are a stupid number of these crazy profi

I wish I had thought of the sunset idea!

Count me in !

Although I've been very quiet in the past 3 years or so, I'd like to add my voice to keeping things going with much gratitude for Dan's generosity, and spirit. Whether I post or not, I'm always glad t

OK... I will finally jump in here, if only to provide an alternate viewpoint. Mine is 1020, and I seem to be the outlier here, though I'm a bit surprised at the preference for "cartoon color" in a por

OK... so, I haven't been vocal in the group, as I haven't really felt like I had a lot to contribute. I was not particularly inspired by this image, as I didn't see that It was particularly difficult.

This image demonstrates the variety of personal preferences for how much color and contrast should be "forced" into the image! I prefer my own version (828) over just about every other version—I find

I might be possible that your files are OK on the iCloud server—can you download them from there? It's possible that the iCloud Desktop Folder, the local copy, is corrupted, but the copy actually in t

Sign me up for the Chevreul book... These days there is less interest in so called "acurate color"—its all about "color grading," creative color interpretation! This is often all over the place, deliv

Dan writes: Adam's approach to photography was valuable in that it introduced a systematic way of thinking about the end results when you were planning the picture. The amount of control you could exe

Re: More saturation, a yes always implies Yes unless the colors are already too close to out of gamut in the original *CLOTHING - yes *FACES - no *FLOWERS - yes, unless they are white *FRUIT - yes *GR

As one who has taken perhaps more classes with Dan than most, I just want to express my heartfelt thanks for all that he has taught over the years -- Dan, you are truly a "one of a kind" person! I've

I've been following the discussion here with great interest and though I haven't been posting much lately, I thought I'd jump in here... I not sure this is entirely accurate. The notion that the prefe

OK, For Photoshop: My biggest desire at the moment is to have the ability to use Blend- if sliders for Layer Groups. I'd like to have the eyedropper indicate where a value in the image sits along the

I've been experimenting with this myself - The tool seems to be based more on the old Hue/Saturation adjustment tool. Hue ranges are rotated, lightened or darkened using similar algorithms and, as suc

Unfortunately for most photographers doing high-end work their client is an art director or a designer with a computer and a copy of photoshop and when they get the digital file from the photographer

Correct, except I don't consider Camera Raw a safety net - just a better way to setup the image. To fully take advantage of RAW processing you have to expose even more carefully than you do normally b

While it is not so important for many photographers the RAW format has special value for me because it allows me to optimize my images in ways the the camera manufacturer didn't imagine when they hard

There has been considerable smoke blowing and NDA threatening discourse going on around working methods for ACR. The basic operating principles of this plug-in haven't changed but that also doesn't me