Hi all, I have been a working commercial/advertising photographer for 25 years and have been involved in digital imaging for the last 15 - capturing photos digitally almost exclusively for the last 2

Hi again, To be fair to Andrew I think I need to clarify a few things, I wrote: to which Andrew responded: OK, I said "kind of like" not exactly like.. but Andrew is right a profile doesn't change the

Hi all, Without getting into another discussion about the benefits of input profiles for digicams there are some practical corrections you can try for poor skin tones. Skin tones can be a major proble

Bob Smith wrote: I definitely think this is the way to go. In fact, I use something very similar - I use a workspace that is basically ColorMatch with a gamma of 2.2, 5500k white - it's a real plain J

One of these days I'm going to get the hang of sending mail to the group instead of just hitting reply: "Ripka, Herb" wrote: I don't know where Bruce got this idea but it's not true. Basically the lay

Dan Margulis wrote: It is also interesting to note that the image in question can be very effectively corrected with a trip into LAB and "one" curve adjusting the "a" and "b" channels.

Hi all, I've been following this thread with some interest because of the wide variety of responses. This issue of deciding what file type to use for archiving has a new wrinkle - now we have to decid

Dan wrote: This is what I love about this list! I've never heard this term (Mung-and-blur) before but I suspect that it is an older printing technique. Dan could you elaborate? What was the original m

Hi all, Selections and alpha channels are 8 bit even in 16 bit mode. If the selection is feathered there will probably be a significant amount of banding in it to begin with. I'm actually not sure why

Dan Margulis (76270.1033@...) writes: Chris Murphy writes: Perhaps we should call it a correction profile. The idea is to assign a specially designed profile (or choose an unusual one) to c

Guys, please.... you say potato, I say pot-ah-to.... I think this thread has gone on long enough....

Congratulations Dan!! You deserve the "Hall of Fame" status. We all appreciate your contributions to the professional digital imaging community and hope that you continue to enlighten us with new tech

APR wrote: There are many ways to smooth out complexions but if there are real physical skin features (not just noise) that need to be smoothed then blurring the AB channels is not going to do it. One

Hector Davila wrote: Copy background layer. Run median filter (filter->noise->median) at about 3 pixel radius on this copy. Run gaussian blur at about .5 pixels. Create a black layer mask by holding d

Mike wrote: photograph (a You might find your answer by simply examining the channels. A dark stain might be confined to the blue channel of an RGB file (if you have to, it might be worth converting i

hfdomke wrote: You can not extrapolate accurate RGB numbers from CMYK aim points. The numbers you cite are highly dependent on what RGB & CMYK workspace profiles you are using. I'm guessing that Dan's

John McKercher wrote: A radius of 10 is like using a radius of 10 in unsharp mask - it may not be appropriate for all images. Try other radius settings more like 1, 2 or 3 . You can also use Overlay o

Hi all, Regarding Dan's post about RGB vs CMYK editing. I must admit that I am from the half who grew up working in RGB. I did ALL of my color correcting in RGB and then simply converted, in the best

Hi all, If I want to reproduce B+W photos as 4-color what do you recommend for custom CMYK setup in PS ? I've been using heavy GCR as opposed to medium or light but I'm wondering if "maximum" would be

This is not an option - The magazine is printing using a web press. The fact that they are giving me fairly high dot gain specs suggests that they are aware of relatively poor press performance with r