Introduction
Photoshop, the star of the undersea world
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Gear that I used: The SeaLife DC1400 and the GoPro HERO4 Black
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1. Something Basic: The Moon Jelly
Selecting a frame from a GoPro movie
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Correcting contrast with the Overlay blend mode
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Turning the ocean a true Caribbean blue
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Enhancing clarity with the High Pass filter
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Cropping an image that can't be harmed
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2. A Fish Worth Remembering: The Angelfish
Selecting the best frame of a fish in motion
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Permanently (and fearlessly) upsampling an image
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Bringing out color and beauty in Camera Raw
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Sharpening a moving target with Shake Reduction
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Smoothing edges on a channel-by-channel basis
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3. Something More Colorful: The Parrotfish
Parrotfish: The colorful keepers of the coral
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The quick-and-dirty fix: Auto Levels and Vibrance
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Recording the Auto Levels trick as an action
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Correcting GoPro lens distortion in Camera Raw
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Reining in (and rebuilding) hot highlights
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Enhancing the fish's dramatic eye
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4. Large and in Charge: The Grouper
The fish to end all fish
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Correcting color, tone, and distortion
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Cropping in Photoshop, not Camera Raw
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Selecting and enhancing a smooth detail
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Painting away an unwanted diver
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Opening and cropping a movie in Photoshop
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Animating the position of a cropped movie
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Rendering the first edit of your movie
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Enhancing a movie with the Camera Raw filter
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5. Everyone's Favorite: The Sea Turtle
The most magical reptile of all
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Developing a turtle in flight
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Correcting color balance on a color-by-color basis
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Bringing out the detail in a turtle's eye
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Working from the last-applied settings
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Developing a black-and-white turtle
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The best way to sepia-tone a photograph
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Healing away unwanted elements
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Content-aware smoothing with Color Adaptation
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6. The Nightlife: The Octopus and Other Invertebrates
Night of the invertebrates
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Developing multiple octopuses at a time
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Combining High Pass with Linear Light
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Merging two photos into one Facebook-friendly image
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Adding black borders and white margins
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7. Watch Your Fingers: Moray and Other Eels
Don't play with the eels!
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First, we develop a still frame
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Editing a seamlessly looping, six-second movie
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Color balancing and sharpening the movie
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Exporting a seamlessly looping animated GIF
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Preparing a movie to post on Vine
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8. Swimming with Sharks
How a shark-dive works
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Developing a once-in-a-lifetime shark photo
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Cropping, straightening, and centering the shark
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Rebuilding missing details with Content-Aware
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Zooming in and out of a movie in post
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Panning and pivoting with Transform keyframes
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Sweetening the shark movie in Camera Raw
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Adding a soundtrack and a fade to black
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Adding titles to your movie
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Animating a title and speeding up the render
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9. A Last Lucky Rarity: The Bearded Fireworm
Zooming and framing a macro shot
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Adjusting levels one channel at a time
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Smoothing an oversharp image with High Pass
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Simulating depth of field with Gaussian Blur
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Conclusion
Four tips for underwater photography
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Ex_Files_Enh_Und_PS.zip
(2.5 GB)