Camera Raw files October 21, 2006
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recently i have been taking a lot of photos with the universities digital camera. The majority of these were taken as camera Raw files.
Why use Raw?
“The RAW format is your “digital negative”. It contains all the information that the camera has about a picture. Information is lost in the conversion to JPEG in the camera. If you get the settings wrong in the camera and take a picture, it’s too late. You’re stuck with the picture and can do only a limited amount of correcting in your favorite image editor. So when you need the best from your camera, shoot RAW.” (Logical designs, http://www.logicaldesigns.com/Imaging1.htm, viewed 21.9.06)
With a Raw file you can manipulate the original data captured by the digital camera, thus giving you the ablity to fine tune tonal ranges, change the exposure etc whilst still retaining the maximum amount of detail.
This link explains most of the settings that you can change in the camera raw option. http://www.outbackphoto.com/artofraw/raw_04/essay.html – viewed 21.9.06
Spot Colours October 8, 2006
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Spot or ‘special’ colours (i.e. pantone) should only be used if you are intending to actually get the spot colours printed. This is because many of the colours aren’t reproducible in CMYK printing therefore will not match the colour in your swatch book.
Downloadable Profiles October 7, 2006
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Digial Photo Lab Profiles
If you are going to be sending work to get printed than how can you softproof your image? Well the answer is to download their Profiles. Some of the good photo labs have profiles Availabe for you to use.
Here is a link with a list of Digital Photo Labs that you can get profiles for. (http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/Profiles/Australia_profiles.htm)
Profiles By Paper type
Kodak
Illford Galerie
Lyson paper
PerfectProof paper
