I often see in a lot of forums that people are complaining about image quality after uploading their photographs to online galleries and such. They complain about “muted colors” or “they look tad washed out”.

The “secret” is behind the rendering engine of the used internet browser.
Most of them are just able to reproduce the sRGB colorspace.
If your workflow contains editing/processing in a different colorspace, then you might Read the rest of this entry »

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Printing digital photographs or making photo books becomes more and more popular, whether it’s a gift for good friends, a presentation of your work or prints for an exhibition.

Most of the labs and printing plants have automated processes for printing, but these processes need the right “input”, that means, your files should meet some requirements, such as resolution and colorspace. Modern machines can fix some issues with the resolution and colorspace but in the end Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, it happens very often that you take some cool photographs and they look cool in your camera display and when you’re back home and look at them on your screen, they’re pretty flat and not so vibrant. In the next steps I’ll show you how you can spice up such an image.

The work mentioned below can be done with any image editing software which supports layer techniques and layer blending modes. Adobe Photoshop is my choice but you can do this with Gimp or PaintShop Pro as well. Please keep in mind that in Gimp or PaintShop Pro the blending modes have different names. Please consult your manual or grab the internet for appropriate instructions.

Note: click on the thumbnails to get full size images (lightbox)

OK, let’s start. Read the rest of this entry »

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