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Workflow Tutorial (from the camera to the monitor)
When you take a image on a digital camera it is just the first step in the process to produce the final image. Not doing these basic steps is not doing justice to your photography. A couple of notes: a. This is a very very basic process that ALL digital images would benefit from when resizing images for the web. b. I use variations of the above workflow including high pass filters, selection masks and layers for more localised control ... the list goes on. c. I know 99% of you that do process your images will do it differently to me. This isn't the only way, it isn't even the right way it's just my way. Workflow If you shoot in jpeg mode then jump to Step 2 and at Step 6 save as a processed unsharpened aRGB 8bit TIFF sub-master. I would highly recommend shooting in raw mode to maximise the quality of your images. 1. Convert the raw file into a 16bit aRGB TIFF file and save as a sub-master. 2. If I need to use noise reduction I would do it now in something like Neat Image. 3. Crop, if needed. I prefer, if at all possible to get the final image in the camera. Cropping just throws away detail. 4. Use levels and curves to finalise the tonal range and colouration. 5. Check at 100% magnification for dust bunnies, remove them with clone tool or healing brush. 6. Save as a processed unsharpened aRGB 16bit TIFF sub-master. Using the TIFF format prevents lose of quality as there is no compression used. 7. Convert to sRGB 8bit mode. If you leave the image in aRGB mode and save the image the colours when uploaded will look very pale and washed out. 8. Resize the image to 1000 pixel on the longest size. 9. Final operation before the save is Sharpen using the unsharp mask. I use 100, 0.2, 0 as my basic settings. Repeat this a number of times viewing the image at 100% magnification until it looks too sharp and then undo a couple of sharpening operations. 10. Using the Save for Web option I optimise the file size to 200kb and save the 8bit jpg file ready for upload. The American Kestrel has the unprocessed camera file and my final version side by side, I know which version I prefer. This image was heading for the trash can but I thought I would use it for this little tutorial. Any questions, comments etc feel free to ask me and I will do my best to answer them regards Kev Comments
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IŽll try to improve myself  thanks a lot) -- Stay hungry! Stay foolish! Create and go forward!  So there is manipulation of one sort or another in your work, what a dumb sod I've been, I thought it was all natural
 -- Worse Case Scenario for the   "He who could do little, did nothing." Eugene Odum  Nice to see how you work
 -- dAmn, I love #photographers! It'c called processing EarthHart exactly like a darkroom
-- "It isn't what you feel that matters, it's who you touch" Enhancement then. Being with film that I have processed at a lab, I don't have the ability to do that. And I'm only just learning the computer, so I've got quite a way to go
-- Worse Case Scenario for the "He who could do little, did nothing." Eugene Odum no real difference from selecting the grade of photographic paper to print on to improve the contrast or any other number of darkroom techiques used since the year dot
-- "It isn't what you feel that matters, it's who you touch"  Nice little concise tutorial. Especially for those just starting out.
 `lns -- If you open your mind for me You won't rely on open eyes to see The walls you built within Come tumbling down, and a new world will begin Queensryche, Silent Lucidity  your original comment was a tad unfair, you'd find almost no professional in their right mind would not touch their images up these days in some way when getting ready for presentation on a digital medium (or paper for that matter)
so it's only fair that the rest of us be allowed to do that too so many people say that photos shouldn't be touched and they should 'get it right first time' - this is absolute foolishness and generally an opinion only held by amateur photographers - those who make money from their photography and everyone else who has sense knows that photos are rarely at their best straight out of a camera and there's no shame in improving the way they look you should always, IMO, do whatever it takes to produce images that are as accomplished as possible i'm not having a go at you, i just think that this is a valuable tutorial and that a lot of this ignorance surrounding the subtle alteration of photographs should be squashed do you have prints done at your lab? if so they are done digitally, and labs often process them a great deal relative to the negative anyways, with things like contrast, saturation and sharpening sometimes being changed to achieve a more user friendly result -- :iconburdplz:  That's just a perfect instruction you just gave! I'd never used tha RAW-funktion, because my card can't hold many pictures, but now.... I'm off to get a new card!
This was a very imformation you just gave and I'm more that appriciated that you did! Big thanx  -- Well, if God invented Time, why didn't he make more of that...  ...want to see more >>>> [link] or check my photos at [link] or check Aphasia [link] I tried to optimise one photo))) it looks now much better)))
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