Photoshop CS offers many enhancements that attempt to simulate traditional photographic methods. It's curious that an established software program with a name like Photoshop would take so long to build in features and enhancements that target the digital photographer. Although Photoshop has always worked with photographic images, it always manipulated them using digital terminology and methods. Bit depth, pixels, and color models have always dominated the Photoshop terminology landscape, confusing many traditional photographers who were used to f-stops, shutter speeds, and correction filters.

In this chpater are tasks that explain how to create a contact sheet and create picture packages for easier photo printing. Additional tasks outline how to eliminate red-eye reflections, build image panoramas, and work with 16-bit camera raw files.

Finally, you'll find a task that outlines how to enter and modify keywords and metadata for individual images, making it easier to track, search, and sort your image collection.

Some of these tasks and features have been in Photoshop for some time, whereas others are new with the release of Photoshop CS2. The net result of these photo features is a powerful imaging application that's intuitive and photographer friendly.

Chapter 11.1: How to Build a Contact Sheet

Chapter 11.2: How to Make Picture Packages

Chapter 11.3: How to Use the Red-Eye Tool

Chapter 11.4: How to Reduce Noise

Chapter 11.5: How to Build Panoramas

Chapter 11.6: How to Organize Images with Custom Metadata

Chapter 11.7: How to Work with Camera Raw Images