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Onexposure is going to publish their first book beginning of July. Many site members and Onexposure visitors have expressed the wish for such a book. After the first site survey, there was enough stuff for making 3 books, so the first selection was very hard. I have been asked to take responsibility over the project and I must confess, I am very proud to make this project.

The Onexposure Photo Book 2008 will contain many of the site’s best photos, printed in highest possible quality. Almost 250 photos contributed by over 100 Onexposure members went through the screening process.

This is a unique opportunity to buy one of the most interesting collections of photography ever made!

Specifications:

• 250 pages
• Format: 205 x 280 mm which means the space for photo is 205 x 280 mm “full frame”. The book is bigger.
• Cover: Mate printing on cover board 3mm thick
• Content paper: glossy print on 170 g/m² paper (high quality) and protection coating
• Binding: special binding + stainless screws. If you want, you can open the screws, pick a photo and frame it :-)

Interested? You may use this link and pre-order your copy.

Thanks for your support.
Cheers, Vernon Trent

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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 follow the steps mentioned below. (Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS2)

After you are done with all your image processing or corrections, click in the menu bar

Edit - Convert to profile

in the dialog box choose destination colorspace sRGB IEC61966-2.1
conversion options
module adobe (ACE)
relative colorimetric

and tick the 3 options
(if your image has only one layer, flatten image has no function, so only 2 options available)

Hit OK

Note: It is normal that the colors change, specially if you convert from Adobe RGB to sRGB.

After that, resize the image e.g. 900 x 600 px

Resample method: bicubic sharper

Sharpen if needed.

Save for web (ctrl-alt-shift-s)

In the dialog box, there is an option upper right (ICC profile)
Set the option to include the icc profile in the file.

Save and you’re done.

Cheers, Vernon Trent

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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 there is no warranty that the output is that what you really wanted. So in the next steps, we’ll go thru the tasks you need to do, to deliver the right “input” and get the right “output” :-)

The screenshots below are made using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and are similar to most of the “modern” photo editing software, however the terms may be different but the workflow is the same.

1. Open your file
2. After that press “ctrl + alt + i” to get the image size dialog

untick

* scale styles
* constrain proportions
* resample image

then type the desired dpi (300) in the resolution field and hit OK

Now the file is been set to 300 dpi without resampling the pixels. Please make sure that the file is big enough for a real print (look at the size cm/in)

3. Assign colorspace

Some cameras assign their own colorspace to the files, so it’s always good to check if the file has teh right colorspace and apply the right one if there is a different colorspace embedded.

Menue: edit - convert to profile
The dialog box shows the destination space and the settings you should use (red stroked box)

Hit OK

(if your image has more layers, then it will be automatically flattened)

4. Save the image

Press “ctrl + shift + s”, the save as dialog box appears

Choose a name (different than your initial file, so you have always a backup), include the colorspace in the file and press “save”.

The next dialog box appears to set the tiff options. Set image compression to “LZW” and leave the other settings as shown in the box.

That’s all. :-)

As a sidenote, you may check the sharpness of the file. Because some of you use the camera “built in” sharpening process, or prefer to sharpen when developing the raw files and others may sharpen when the file is being post processed, I haven’t put the sharpening in the workflow shown above.

The “Sharpening 1×1″ will be part of my next post. Stay tuned.

Cheers, Vernon Trent

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I’m very pleased to announce that due to a high public interest, the exhibition “Art speaks from the depths of the soul” in Ratingen, Germany has been extended for one more week.

You can visit the show until February 24th, 2008 at Galerie ART73, Düsseldorfer Straße 73, 40878 Ratingen, Germany.

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Friday from 3.30pm to 6.30pm
Saturday from 2pm to 6pm and by appointment.

www.art73.de

I also want to say a BIG “Thank You” to all those who have visited the show already. Many thanks for your support.

Have a great weekend. Cheers, Vernon Trent

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