Yes... regards, Lee Varis President, LADIG Photographer and Digital-Photo-Illustrator Author of Skin : The Complete Guide to Digitally Lighting, Photographing, and Retouching Faces and Bodies Lee Vari

The +50 brightness setting is a default setting that Adobe came up with to emulate the cameras own internal processing for rendering Jpegs. Just about every camera manufacturer lies about the true sen

Although the black channel by itself can be coaxed into providing some benefit using layer apply modes the simplest thing you can do is to drag the CMYK document back into the RGB original and then ch

Just to be clear... there is some confusion on this point and you have to read the whole post carefully to understand it. The biggest problem for the lab is NOT with customers who knowingly strip prof

Yes... (sigh) this is just plan silly! These "specs" were in place before I joined the lab. I'm not sure most of our customers even know that they are there. We are redesigning the web site and one of

Hi all... One last very long post! This will be my last post on this subject as I see this as receiving entirely too much emphasis on this discussion list and I think we should move on to other things

It depends - it may just be "blown out" on the monitor, or it may in fact be unprintable. Its hard to tell until you make a print if you're in ProPhoto. I will mostly process into ProPhoto to gain acc

Most digital cameras (and the 1DMkII is no exception) use what's known as a Bayer pattern chip. The CCD/CMOS chip is covered with tiny red, green and blue filters in an alternating pattern that provid

lol...good one Dan! As a former unlucky expert I try to stay out of the sky when the sparrow hawks are out ! regards, Lee Varis varis@... http://www.varis.com 888-964-0024

Yes, but this can't add shape back into an area that has clipped (lost tonal detail) due to over saturation. You still need to do some kind of channel blend to recover the shading in these areas. Its

This is an interesting example that demonstrates the differences in acquiring raw files through different color spaces. Most of the time Adobe RGB is a fine choice for a raw file workflow – most of th

I think what Chris is saying (?) is that the profile itself accurately describes the color but that the mechanism that generates the screen display is not sufficiently sophisticated to render the colo

I think this is exactly right and the screen rendering from CMYK (via LAB) is the biggest problem with the user's interpretation of CMYK on screen. Paper white simulation on screen is kind of a kludge

Though I also don't know why your gradient shows the odd gaps in the histogram and I can't duplicate your results exactly, the fact remains that banding of this nature is unavoidable with these artifi

If, as you say earlier: The temperature slider is interpolating between two camera profiles - it would have to do that through LAB (thats how profiles work n'est pas?) - it also appears to operate alo

Somebody is confused – as your own tests confirmed! regards, Lee Varis varis@... http://www.varis.com 888-964-0024

The Tint slider is a magenta-green control - much like adjusting the A channel in LAB. regards, Lee Varis varis@... http://www.varis.com 888-964-0024

I thought this was an interesting problem. It doesn't appear that there is a simple plate blending solution to this because the original image is totally lacking any real contrast in the different cha

LOL... of course! I've already started stripping out the profiles as I go through these, I guess I was just fishing for confirmation and perhaps to see if Profile crusaders would jump in with any kind

Steven Writes: Yes, this is my guess as well – I also think Dan has it it right in the head below – Dan writes: Steve writes: They mostly have this mystery "SWOP (coated) 20%" tag though some have no