I don't know how many of you edit photos, so this thread might not go over that well. I thought that it might be nice to have a thread that could help people solve problems with a picture they took, or maybe repair an older picture.
I enjoy working on pictures, and thought that maybe others did too, but that they didn't have the expertise to accomplish what they needed to do in order to repair or touchup a picture.
I'm no expert, but I have some knowledge, and hoped that there may be others here who have some expertise that they could share with those who need help.
I'm a big fan of Photoshop, and I use it extensively for most of my editing work. Others may use something else, and that's fine if it does what you need it to do.
There was a thread that I was reading a few days ago regarding the Raw camera format, and why it has replaced the TIFF format.(that thread must have been removed because I can't find it anymore) That's an easy one....Raw is by far, the best format you can use when taking a digital photograph. The easiest way to describe the difference in formats would be to say that the TIFF format would take the photograph, apply all the camera settings such as white balance, sharpness, etc., and process the image that you photographed with all those parameters to result in a picture.
With RAW, the camera saves all the raw data individually. That is, when you press the shutter and allow light to strike the sensor, that produces raw information from the sensor to the camera's processor. This information is just recorded as bits of data. You also have the camera settings that are saved separately, like the white balance and sharpness. This information is not fed into a processor so that it comes out in a nice, neat TIFF image. Instead, the information is stored as separate bits of data, and is combined so that you can see what the picture looks like, but the combined parts are individually adjustable.
For example, if you used the wrong white balance, you can access the white balance setting you set up when you took the picture, and change it to a different white balance, since the white balance isn't a permanent part of the photo. It's just raw data that hasn't been processed into the final image yet. The same goes for other aspects of the photo....the sharpness, the amount of each color that the sensor was exposed to, and so on. Raw allows you to redo the camera's settings after you've taken the picture. That makes for a powerful image editing tool.
By the same token, if you are an excellent photographer and don't make many mistakes when you take pictures, then you might find that raw isn't something you need. Myself, I always figure that there is always the chance that one might make a mistake, and that mistake could result in a ruined picture, that could have been saved if it was taken in raw, so I try to shoot raw most of the time.
So, getting back to the main idea of this post, is anyone interested in a photo editing topic like this? I was thinking that if people responded well to this thread and needed to have a photo edited in some way, they could post the image to a newsgroup, or to someplace like Pixentral http://www.pixentral.com/ so that we could download it, repair it, and repost it with tips on how it was done.
I enjoy working on pictures, and thought that maybe others did too, but that they didn't have the expertise to accomplish what they needed to do in order to repair or touchup a picture.
I'm no expert, but I have some knowledge, and hoped that there may be others here who have some expertise that they could share with those who need help.
I'm a big fan of Photoshop, and I use it extensively for most of my editing work. Others may use something else, and that's fine if it does what you need it to do.
There was a thread that I was reading a few days ago regarding the Raw camera format, and why it has replaced the TIFF format.(that thread must have been removed because I can't find it anymore) That's an easy one....Raw is by far, the best format you can use when taking a digital photograph. The easiest way to describe the difference in formats would be to say that the TIFF format would take the photograph, apply all the camera settings such as white balance, sharpness, etc., and process the image that you photographed with all those parameters to result in a picture.
With RAW, the camera saves all the raw data individually. That is, when you press the shutter and allow light to strike the sensor, that produces raw information from the sensor to the camera's processor. This information is just recorded as bits of data. You also have the camera settings that are saved separately, like the white balance and sharpness. This information is not fed into a processor so that it comes out in a nice, neat TIFF image. Instead, the information is stored as separate bits of data, and is combined so that you can see what the picture looks like, but the combined parts are individually adjustable.
For example, if you used the wrong white balance, you can access the white balance setting you set up when you took the picture, and change it to a different white balance, since the white balance isn't a permanent part of the photo. It's just raw data that hasn't been processed into the final image yet. The same goes for other aspects of the photo....the sharpness, the amount of each color that the sensor was exposed to, and so on. Raw allows you to redo the camera's settings after you've taken the picture. That makes for a powerful image editing tool.
By the same token, if you are an excellent photographer and don't make many mistakes when you take pictures, then you might find that raw isn't something you need. Myself, I always figure that there is always the chance that one might make a mistake, and that mistake could result in a ruined picture, that could have been saved if it was taken in raw, so I try to shoot raw most of the time.
So, getting back to the main idea of this post, is anyone interested in a photo editing topic like this? I was thinking that if people responded well to this thread and needed to have a photo edited in some way, they could post the image to a newsgroup, or to someplace like Pixentral http://www.pixentral.com/ so that we could download it, repair it, and repost it with tips on how it was done.
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