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Why Published Images Will Look Different than Inkjet Prints. Part 2
A two-part post on preparing images for publication. Publications use the geometric structure of halftone dots to interpret pixel values as tonal values on paper surfaces. Each pixel produces up to four overprinted color halftone dots. These halftones dots translate … Continue reading
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Why Published Images Will Look Different than Inkjet Prints. Part 1
A four-part post on preparing images for publication. It is a known fact that images viewed on computer monitors don’t always match what comes out of desktop printers. This is because the color pixels captured by digital cameras are defined … Continue reading
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Images Look Darker in Print Than They Do on Your Monitor
and they always will. It’s an unavoidable reality. The reason for this has little to do with color management, inks, paper surfaces, device profiles, or any other adjustment-related issue. The simple fact is that your monitor’s white is illuminated by a projected light … Continue reading
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It All Starts With Tonal Clarity
No matter where you go with image preparation, it all begins with distinction; the purposeful shaping of the image’s tonal values. Regardless of whether you prefer color or black and white, exposing detail (without over sharpening) is job number one. … Continue reading
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The Image Saturation Balancing Act
Preparing an image for public view involves tweaking both color and tonality. Continue reading
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Tagged camera modes, camera sensor, color compensation, color correction, contrast, cookie cutter, Digital Camera, digital image, digital noise, Digital Photography, film grain, human eyesight, image editing, image repair, JPG, photo editing, photography, photography tips, photoshop, primer for newbies, raw, saturation, spectral, tonality, visual cortex, white balance
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Histograms Can See in the Dark
The lowly Histogram is truly a functionless graph that merely monitors the tonal distribution of an image. It functions much like a thermometer in that it reports the current condition of the image. And it only reports one aspect of … Continue reading
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Photo Finishing
Digital photos require a three-step process just as film cameras did two decades ago. It’s popular to think of photography requiring two steps (shooting the picture and producing a physical print), but the process involves three steps with digital images … Continue reading
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Are You Taking Yourself Serious?
Now there’s a question you probably haven’t heard since junior high school! I remember my mother asking that question (in so many words) just after she read my teacher’s note on the back of my report card… “Herby is a … Continue reading
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RAW Files Are NOT Like Color Negatives
It is commonly accepted that digital RAW files are equivalent to a photographic film color negative. Here’s the rationale… A color negative is a physical record of how light is recorded onto the individual red, green, and blue emulsion layers … Continue reading
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Beware of Buzzwords
Every time a new technology breakthrough emerges it is accompanied by a baffling bunch of techie buzzwords; terms intended to explain the breakthrough. The problem is that many of the pundits and writers involved with that industry use these (heretofore … Continue reading
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