Can It Get Any More Digital? Written by Nash Ville
Everyone seems to be talking about digital photography because it’s fun, fast and less costly than we might think. It’s almost everywhere – in printed materials, in news, and on net. What makes digital photography a hit? One, digital takes fear out of photography because it lets us take as many pictures as we want. Two, we can see right away if we got our desired image and delete pictures we don’t like. Three, we can upload and share those pictures with our loved ones using a computer or a mobile phone anytime, anywhere. Four, digital costs less because we don’t need films and we don’t pay developing fees. Lastly, almost all people such as doctors, scientists, fire fighters, police officers, insurance agents, and real estate agents use digital photography in their work everyday. In digital photography, Adobe Photoshop allows digital photographers, web and graphic designers to work more efficiently, explore new creative options, and produce highest quality images for print, web and other media. Its software delivers a comprehensive toolset that helps users to meet any creative or production challenge. Its creative tools help graphic art professionals generate appealing visual effects and stay ahead of competition. It is no doubt that it’s very significant to general users, web designers, and even, video editors. The book, “Enhancing
| | What's Your Right Photo ShadeWritten by Maricon Williams
Sometimes photos would appear a little frustrating especially when there is no transparency to match color. The reason to this is that printing companies have been slow in going with flow to accommodate new images. They often stumbles through their conversions to CMYK which causes irreparable damage to images.In article When Good Color Goes Bad by Mike Davis, it enumerated some tips on how to seize full potential of your digital images. Davis advised to work with digital photographers who can supply following: 1. FPO images for you to place in your layout plus original raw files. These contain virgin pixel captures straight from high-end digital cameras, prior to any conversion to RGB or any subsequent processing/encoding. You will need someone skilled to handle them, though. 2. Properly tagged RGB tiff images -- again, a skilled operator will be needed for best results. 3. CMYK tiffs prepared by a knowledgeable photographer. When feasible, separations should be prepared from raw camera files, using commercial printer's own printing profile settings if available, or at very least using Photoshop's "U.S. Prepress Defaults" with appropriate print environment settings (i.e. coated, uncoated, Web, sheetfed, newsprint, ink density, etc.). Mike Davis, author of said article, is founder of Colorprep. He specializes in making digital camera color separations look their best, serving printers, graphic
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