3. Our Procedures: The rules of the road Lesson 1Lesson 1 Writing Your Articles - General philosophy of article composition and preparing your articles Writing Your Articles - General philosophy of article composition and preparing your articles Lesson 2Lesson 2 Article Manager – Text Prep - Preparing your text for Article Manager, our online content management system Article Manager – Text Prep - Preparing your text for Article Manager, our online content management system Lessons 3Lessons 3 Article Manager – Text Uploading - How to upload the text portion of your article to Article Manager Article Manager – Text Uploading - How to upload the text portion of your article to Article Manager Lessons 4Lessons 4 Photoshop Basics - How to prepare photographs for your articles Photoshop Basics - How to prepare photographs for your articles Lessons 5Lessons 5 Article Manager – Photos Article Manager – Photos How to import your photos into Article ManagerHow to import your photos into Article Manager How to place your photos into the article.How to place your photos into the article. Finishing up for an Editor to review.Finishing up for an Editor to review. Lesson 6 (optional but very useful)Lesson 6 (optional but very useful) Photoshop – Advanced Photo Techniques - Making Macros Procedures Photoshop – Advanced Photo Techniques - Making Macros Procedures Lesson 7 (optional but very useful)Lesson 7 (optional but very useful) Photoshop -Advanced Photo Techniques - Side-by-side photo Procedures Photoshop -Advanced Photo Techniques - Side-by-side photo Procedures (You should already be signed up with a username and password. If you are not, go to Lesson 1, page 2 and follow the instructions.) The following lessons are designed to teach you how to navigate the online publishing world. The rules are many and all are important to keep your articles from crashing and burning.

4. Lesson 6 Photoshop – Advanced Photo Techniques Making Macros Procedures Making Macros Procedures

5. Requirements  A copy of Photoshop  Photos that you are planning on using in your article.

6. Macros will save you lots of time for any action that you do on a regular basis such as sizing photos at 400, 300, 350, 100, sharpen 35%, canvas 400, etc. If all your photos on the desktop are similarly dull or similarly blurred or whatever (which often happens since the same camera under the same conditions usually took the photos). You could make a Macro to adjust the most average of the photos. Macros are also useful when using the Batch Command Making Macros in Photoshop

7. Open the Window Menu and click on all of the following:  Tools  Options  Navigator  Actions  Layers &  Status Bar

8. This is what you will see. Now open a photo you want to adjust

9. Click on the arrow and click off of Button Mode Choose New Action…

10. This box will Appear Name: Put in what you will remember, in this case 199 If you want, choose a Function Key to use for the Macro

11. Choose a color, alternate colors or choose the same color for the same macro i.e. yellow for size, green for effects etc. whatever you will remember!

12. This is a continuation of Macros but for correcting a series of photos

13. All your actions are now being recorded so do what you would normally do to fix the photo. Here choose Image/Adjustments/Levels and adjust the triangles

14. Here choose Filter/Sharpen/Unsharpen Mask

15. Choose your percentage, I usually use 35%

16. Now choose Stop Recording to end the Macro

17. Choose Button Mode to go back to the Button view

18. This is what you will see. Just click on one of the colored boxes to run that macro.

19. Congratulations!  You are now done with Lesson #6  Please move on to Lesson #7 If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email them to ld@lasplash.com If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email them to ld@lasplash.com ld@lasplash.com ThanksLawrence