Achieving Image Sharpness
Digital cameras often come with a setting to control the sharpness of the JPEG or TIFF images that you take. This setting is actually an algorithm that the processor in the camera applies to the image. Be careful in setting the sharpness too high, as you will produce artificial looking and overly-defined edges in the photograph. Many, if not most, professional photographers do their sharpening during post-processing, preferring to keep the camera on a medium setting while shooting. In the raw file mode, sharpening will not be applied to the image. Nothing is more appealing than a well-focused sharp image, and this is one of the first things a photographer checks...
Read MoreThe best way to convert your photo to black and white
Introduction We all know there are an endless number of ways to convert an image to black and white in Photoshop, and they’ve been written about over and over again for so long, that I’m not even gonna get into that. What I want to talk about today though is, the best, non-destructive tool of the trade in black and white conversion. Before getting into this article, if you haven’t done so already take a look at my earlier post on how to take the right shot in camera to make a perfect photo once converted to black and white In-Camera Black and White Photography Individual channels As we all know, an RGB image mainly consists of 3 color channels....
Read MoreNoise Reduction in Adobe Photoshop
All images are likely to suffer from noise to a certain extent depending on a number of factors, such as: the ISO level, sensor heat, and exposure time. Photoshop offers a few techniques for reducing image noise. One of which is the Reduce Noise feature found in the top menu under Filters >> noise >> reduce noise Reduce Noise Filter is mainly designed to combat the two known luminance and color noise problems, while preserving edge details in an image. In the basic dialog box, you’re going to want to specify the noise reduction strength being applied to your image. The preserve details slider will specify how much edge information...
Read MoreThe art of toning black & white photos
In photography, toning means changing the color of black-and-white photographs. In analog photography, toning is the result of several chemical processes carried out on silver-based photographic prints. The effects of these processes can be emulated with software in digital photography. Conventional toning of photographs is done by soaking the actual photograph (printed on black and white silver based photo paper) in a toning solution. This toning solution can come in a multitude of shades, allowing for beautiful monochrome photographs. One of the most popular colours for toning is sepia. In sepia toning, chemicals convert the metallic silver in the print to a sulfide...
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