The Prepress Class is here! If you ever do design work for CMYK printing, this class teaches you everything you need to know. Perfect press printing every time.

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Welcome
1. Getting started, Guidelines and Announcements
  
  How to navigate this site, perform specific tasks, guidelines to follow and news & updates
  
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  - Say hello!
  - By Triciabertkern
  - January 29
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1. Gear Talk
  
  Have a Photography question? This is a place to ask. Camera bodies, lenses, and other photography-related topics are discussed here.
  
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2. The Macintosh User Group
  
  All things Apple Macintosh.
  
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3. The Windows & PC Hardware Forum
  
  Microsoft Windows Q&A and PC Hardware related topics are covered here.
  
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Ask Damien
1. Help with editing
  
  Can't figure out how to fix something? Post your photo here and I'll help.
  
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  - Smooth
  - By Damien Symonds
  - June 22
2. How to achieve a certain look or effect
  
  Seen a great edit and would love to know how to mimic it? Let's explore it together, it's great fun.
  
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  - Change leaves colour
  - By 1234
  - May 17
3. Questions about tutorials and articles
  
  If you're reading one of the resources on my site, and there's something you don't understand, ask me here.
  
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  - Batch-saving video
  - By Damien Symonds
  - June 28
4. Photoshop / Elements / Bridge / ACR questions or problems
  
  Post here with questions about your software - tools, menus, colour space, strange behaviour, etc. We'll figure it out together.
  
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5. Lightroom questions or problems
  
  For issues with catalogues, tools, colour space, and so on.
  
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  - Clipping Warnings
  - By Damien Symonds
  - May 15
6. Output - print, websites, Facebook, email, client disk, etc
  
  This section is all about presenting your finished photos to the world. Printing them, posting them online, or giving them to your customer. Sizes, file formats, cropping, sharpening, etc.
  
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  - Print a 40x60
  - By Aimee Nelson
  - June 30
7. Monitor calibration questions or problems
  
  Got a query or a quandary about screen calibration? Post it here. But please make sure you've read these articles first.
  
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8. Miscellaneous questions or problems
  
  Got a question that doesn't seem to fit in the other sections? No trouble, post it here. Remember, post-processing and related topics only.
  
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9. Focus checks
  
  If you've taken a photo and you're not quite sure if its focus is good enough to use, post it here and I'll tell you whether to keep or cull.
  
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