Debunking a Workflow Myth Apr 10, 2016 !!! I missed last Friday! So sorry everyone. We’ll I’ve been wanting to get this off my shoulders for while so here goes. A while back (2004 to be exact) I invented the Luminance/Color mode curve laye... helpful hint of the day Read more
Perception of Black Apr 6, 2016 Black color (warm or cool), paper texture, light angle, and light temperature, can all effect the visual darkness of a print. It's possible to take a matte print, that is printed and framed correctly,... helpful hint of the day Read more
8bit to 16bit Apr 5, 2016 *This one is complicated and brief. It may make more questions come my way, but here goes.* You can convert 8bit color images into 16bit color images that act (a bit) like 16bit images if the original... helpful hint of the day Read more
Adobe RGB Default Apr 3, 2016 This is a no-brainer but it constantly trips people up. The first thing you want to do when you install Photoshop on a new computer/system is go to Edit>Color Settings and set the RGB working space fr... helpful hint of the day Read more
New Sensors Mar 31, 2016 Top camera sensors are now equal or better than camera lenses. That means all the old-world film-era gab about good lenses now applies again. But a good lens is not always about sharpness . . . . At l... helpful hint of the day Read more
Printers & Sensors . . . . Mar 29, 2016 On most Epson (and many non-espon) printers, most body sensors are “flip lever” sensors. That means that you can pretty much stick a pencil or folded piece of paper in any sensor-area of the printer t... helpful hint of the day Read more
How Warm is Warm? Mar 28, 2016 This one is from the direct observation of many “calibrated” environments . . . . We see color emitting from a modern monitor differently than color reflecting off a piece of paper. Our biological whi... helpful hint of the day Read more
L*a*b* Color Space Mar 24, 2016 Today’s hint is much shorter than yesterday’s. Nearly every CMYK and RGB color space is defined by a physical thing in real life (IRL). Adobe RGB encompasses what we deem acceptable maximum color gamu... helpful hint of the day Read more
Tonal Selection & Curves Mar 23, 2016 A tonal selection curve is always more complicated than a master (or base) curve. (The master base curve on this example image is shown above.) Use the tonal selector tool on a new curve adjustment ... helpful hint of the day Read more
Raw Scanning Workflow Mar 21, 2016 The master curve of an inverted image is (roughly) done with the following steps: Shadows, Highlights, Mid-tones, then final edit of Shadows. 1. Invert the image (Command or Control “I”) 2. Add a curv... helpful hint of the day Read more
First Rule of Scanning Mar 20, 2016 For many of you on this list, this will be repeat. But it still needs to be written down. The first rule of BW negative scanning is to scan RAW. Get the scan to be as close to the original negative as... helpful hint of the day Read more
Rendering Intents Mar 18, 2016 There's always a lot of confusion about what rendering intents are. They exist because printers (the machines) usually can't produce as much color gamut as a light-emitting monitor can. There are vari... helpful hint of the day Read more