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Photoshop has changed its default look slightly over the years, but for the most part it’s been quite consistent: Toolbar on the left, options on the top, and a given set of panels (which used to be known as palettes) on the right. Despite the consistency, Adobe has added new ways to control and customize Photoshop’s interface with almost every new version. Why customize? Doing so can make the program faster and more efficient to use. It can render Photoshop more legible. And you can save variations on the interface for different tasks.

X-Rite — makers of the eternally useful ColorChecker chart — have announced a free series of webinars that they will be broadcasting this month. Each week will see a different topic, but always with the underlying theme of color management. If you're not free to watch the seminar when it broadcasts live, you can catch them all on X-Rite's archive page.

You’ll notice very little difference between the Before and After versions of this photo because it needed very little fixing. The composition and exposure of this shot by Jessie Hoye of Berkeley, CA, are right on the money. But the picture looked slightly flat in the water and sky, and we felt that these could use a little boost.