Re: Digicam: need advice on image compression and profile
Re: Digicam: need advice on image compression and profile
- Subject: Re: Digicam: need advice on image compression and profile
- From: Paul Schilliger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:34:15 +0100
Thanks for all your answers and advises!
The reason I shoot JPG is when I know the output is low end and for
small prints, it then saves a lot of disk space and process time. I
otherwise shoot RAW and work in Adobe RGB (or Finepix 1.8) , as you
would expect. I have tried to send a color chart to this lab in the
past. Of course the guy didn't have a clue and he didn't print it. I
tried to explain what I wanted, but it seemed that it was a waste of
time, I was not even sure he had a proper closed loop calibration. And
instead of converting some wide gamut images that I had mistakenly sent,
he printed a whole bunch totally overexposed and desaturated, because I
had asked him to not color correct the files. The few he corrected were
a waste too. The lab is in my small town which makes it handy, but even
there, we speak a different language when it comes to color!!! I have
had the best results so far (or I should say the least bad) when I
converted from sRGB into my monitor profile and stripped the profile.
Maybe I should have resort to another lab, even I might not be able to
talk to the operator then.
Making that adjustment layer is a good idea! In fact I had tried it
once, but forgot about this possibility. I should rethink this option.
I have tried the TIFF LZW format that CD Tobie suggests. It saves
approx. 30% of the uncompressed file, but is still much larger than the
camera JPG. I will use it when I want a larger or better print. I assume
that the file can be opened in the Frontier software.
Andrew Rodney's last comment reminds me that when I send my images to a
Frontier operator, what I am doing is I'm trying to obtain hi-end
results at a low-end consumer price! No wonder there is some groundwork!
Kind regards,
Paul Schilliger
http://www.paulschilliger.com
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