Category: Photos

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Photoshop JPEG Settings

Published on: May 2, 2008 and has 3 Comments

I have written several posts in the past relating to digital photos, and more specifically JPEG files. I have talked about the differences between JPEG and RAW files. In one post I also compare JPEG and GIF files, and provided examples to illustrate when to use a particular file type. The JPEG and GIF post also listed the settings I used to get the resulting image in Photoshop.

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When to Use GIF and JPEG Format

Published on: March 5, 2008 and has 6 Comments

I have written several posts on image formats, their advantages and disadvantages. The one thing I haven’t really discussed is when to use a particular format over another. Depending on that type of image you have will determine which format you should choose. Most people may just choose JPEG, however, there are many times GIF [...]

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Resizing Digital Photos for E-mail in Windows XP

Published on: February 29, 2008 and has 2 Comments

Once in a while I will get several digital photos as attachments in an e-mail, and the photos haven’t been resized. This is a problem as photos from a digital camera are usually 2MB and larger, which is quite big to send in an e-mail. Add to the fact that there are usually several photos [...]

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Tips on Taking Photographs with a Digital Camera

Published on: February 22, 2008 and has 12 Comments

I’m not a professional photographer, but I do enjoy taking pictures. I try to take the best pictures I possibly can, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. I bought my first digital camera in 2002, and since that time I have been learning some tricks and tips that I can use to take [...]

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What is a Digital Raw File?

Published on: February 13, 2008 and has 4 Comments

I have written several posts regarding digital Raw files produced by digital cameras. There is also much discussion online as to whether one should save photos in JPEG or Raw files. As with any file format, Raw files have both advantages and disadvantages. In this post I will look at what exactly a digital Raw [...]

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48bit Image Colour Issues When Saved as JPEG

Published on: February 8, 2008 and has No Comments

When I edit images in Photoshop that are either created in Photoshop, or from a scanner, I usually deal with 48bit images. I like the extra overhead for editing that 48bit images provide. The one problem that I encountered recently was saving the file to a JPEG to be displayed on a Web site. The [...]

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Organizing Digital Archives

Published on: January 30, 2008 and has 8 Comments

A few months back I wrote a post call Data Archiving Method where I talked about which media I chose to backup my scanned photo and negative archives. I also mentioned the labeling method I chose to keep track of each photo. I haven’t wrote much about archive since then so I decided to provide [...]

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About Colour Management

Published on: November 23, 2007 and has No Comments

For those who like to edit and print your pictures with the same colours you see on a computer monitor, then learning how to manage colours is very important. Although the colours may look similar between a printed photo and how it is displayed on a computer monitor, chances are that there is some colour [...]

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