When good color goes bad…Written by Granny's Mettle
Even with popularity of digital technology, and availability of equipment and software associated with it, many printing firms are still slow to make changes needed to upgrade their business. More so when it comes to digital photography.More often than not, most typical printing outfits are no set up to process digital files that bad results do happen. Mistakes are often made such as conversions of files to CMYK doing irreparable damage to images, and operator trying to rectify his mistakes by fixing it with a series of layers, selections, masks and adjustments. These further aggravates already damaged file by introducing new problems like banding, and colors that look muddy, desaturated, neutralized, and unappealing. But this situation can be avoided and great results can be achieved. If you feel that you are not getting best output for your digital camera images, here are a few key tips for you: Tip 1: PROFILES It's a must to ask your chosen printer whether they honor embedded RGB profiles. This would mean that they have capacity to handle RGB color separation work. If they don't want to get your RGB file, or they seem like they don't care or understand what you're saying, then it's time for you to go to another printer. Tip 2: CALIBRATED Remember to use shops and facilities that regularly calibrate their displays. This can be done with a hardware calibration system.
| | A Thing of Beauty is a Joy with PhotoshopWritten by Granny's Mettle
Human nature always seems to have this predilection with beauty and what society believes is beautiful. When we are fat, we want to be slim or thin. When we have so-called “love handles”, we decide we do not love them anymore, so we go to gym and exercise until our tongues fall out from fatigue. We are blessed with dark colored skin, so we try all new bleaching products available in market to lighten our color. We have white skin so we go to tanning salons to get olive skin, and out-in-the-sun color to your skin. We are naturally brunette but we go to nearest salon to get our hair done and died to blonde because they said “blondes always have such fun”.And digital technology is also banking on partiality of people to not have fun with what Lord has blessed them with originally. I have been in digital business for quite some time now, and what I regularly encounter are numerous questions on how to remove blemishes from photos so that their faces would look great and give that “fashion-magazine look” that media is glamorizing so much nowadays. Here are a few suggestions then from a photographer on beauty retouching. (Now, if I could just do it in real life, I would be a millionaire by now.) Beauty Retouching with Photoshop 1 – Try to improve colors on face in your photo as far as you can go. To edit, it is better to do it in RGB rather than CMYK. With RGB, editing is more flexible and easy. And explore all selections in various feathers. Do not be afraid to experiment. After all, being creative is all about using all choices available. 2 – After editing your color, it’s now time to create a new layer. This is also a tool for you to be able to control your work. Begin your retouch using a heeling brush and cloning stamp to remove things you want removed. Start with bigger imperfections and move your way to littlest blemish. You could also use heeling brush to remove lines under eyes to create that young look to face.
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