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Tim, Thanks I missed these the first time around and I've downloaded them now. Simon

I'm currently using a Canon XTI and the photos it take have a resolution of 3888x2592. If I use PS CS3 to resize it to 972x648, would the aspect ratio be maintained? What's the largest print size a picture of this resolution would create? I was thinking of printing with 300 DPI. What JPEG quality setting should I use with Photoshop CS3? Thanks.

I've been shooting raw exclusively for about 6 months, forcing myself to learn the P&P. But, if my 40d is set to AWB in RAW mode, is the white balance adjusted in camera. I'm asking this because many of my images right out of camera seem to have an accurate white balance. Sometimes I'm doing more harm then good by adjusting the WB. Basically does AWB work only when shooting Jpeg, or ...

I've noticed people taking test photos of subjects holding a color chart and then assume they use the chart somehow in post processing. Was curious how it works? How do you use the color chart in your pp?

Looked for a sticky to put this in but none seemed to fit. For those that use Firefox 3 there is a little 'trick' that allows your enable color management. I'm not sure of its usefulness, but it does help me better help others commenting on their posts. Here it is: In the address bar type about :config then click " I'll be careful, I promise! " then place this in the filter gfx....

Hi, new question. I only do photography part-time or less. I would like to do it more, just has not happened yet. Anyway, I want to try and make a logo with CS3, I am not that talented yet. I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers? Ex: My size should I set for it, How to save it for different formats. And also, I have a website and wanted to (Try) to make a banner, what size...

I can never figure this out. What is the correct way to tell if a photo is good enough for a large print? I have a photo shot with my 40D in landscape mode. The player is centered so I crop to a portrait orientation keeping the original aspect ratio. The photo is sharp. How do I know what's the largest size I can blow that up. I'm following this procedure which I saw in another thread. ...

I have been thinking of giving it a try. Just wondering if anybody has done some digitaly. For thoes who dont know what the Orton effect is.. The Orton effect has traditionally been done using slide film with the first, sharp, image overexposed by two stops and the second, out of focus image, over exposed by one stop. The shots were then sandwiched together in a single slide mount to produce...

Hi all, Does anyone know if the Pantone/Datacolor/Colorvision Spyder2 are all basically the same thing *and* if they will work on a PC running Windows 2000? I need to calibrate a newer LCD monitor that's being used with an older computer for the time being. Colorvision's OptiCAL 3.7.8-1 software is already installed and seems to work fine and I believe can be used with the Spyder2, ...

I've seen this problem on here before but I've not seen a definitive solution. I open DPP and navigate to a folder and it crashes...every time. There's only jpegs in it. I move all the photos to another folder and the problem follows. In Photoshop Elements I hit "Reveal in Explorer" then "properties." There's one more file than is showing in organizer. I have my computer set to "show ...

Thought I'd write up a single, rather long post, to keep my postcount within limits, and get some links grouped together Do you see a difference between Photoshop and another program? Likely this has something to do with (the other program not using) colormagement... For starters: Check whether the other program is color managed. AFAIK, Windows viewer is not (before Vista, that is), ...

To me, Canon needs to add Arbitrary rotation, more precise noise reduction control and USM and more color controls. What else would you like to be added onto the program?

A lot of people here love RAW as far as I can tell. But do you people always shoot RAW? Even if you're hanging out with your friends for example? All the time? Because after seeing the benefits of RAW I started shooting only RAW but realized that it takes a lot of time to edit them. And there are still RAWs I didn't edit from a month ago [or something] in my computer. I don't think I'm a lazy ...

Got the 40D yesterday, been shooting&eager to see the results. Surprise: an unrecognized CR2 format! As if we'd really need still another one.... As my laptop is a G4 the CS3 does not run too well on it and Lightroom does not run at all, and since the last trauma it got it cannot play DVD's the only solution I've got is to use DNG converter and...you know..."aller-retour". Or shoot .jpg....

Hello, I am really confused. I recently just bought a Spyder 2 Express and I'm really trying hard to get my colors right and consistant. My monitor is calibrated. So here is my process 1. I open the raw file in Adobe RAW, make some minor adjustments 2. Open Image, which opens it into photoshop CS3 3. Retouch the image as usual. 4. I save it as PSD file, then I convert to profile sRGB ...

I went out one night trying to take pics of lightning. No sooner than I got to my spot, the lightning stopped. Anyways, what I got was this. I was just playing around while I was out in the middle of nowhere. Nothing special. I shot in RAW and played around a few days later and come up with this. I know the pictures it's self is nothing special but I am amazed at what I got out...

Very nice work for using a single raw file. Id be interested in the steps you did to create these images.

Looked for a sticky to put this in but none seemed to fit. For those that use Firefox 3 there is a little 'trick' that allows your enable color management. I'm not sure of its usefulness, but it does help me better help others commenting on their posts. Here it is: In the address bar type about :config then click " I'll be careful, I promise! " then place this in the filter gfx....

When my latest images appeared on my PC, the greens didn't appear green. They've turned into a browny-yellow. The strange thing is that on my LCD, they appear green and much closer to the real colour. Does anyone have an explanation for this, and is it possible to convert the yellow back to green? Thanks in advance.

Just a quick landscape comparison for anyone interested. A good way to test colors between the two and sharpness. No processing in either app, but I did add 200/.2/.0 of smart sharpen in PSE5. I'd like to see someone do a portrait comparison. All in all it looks like the conversion quality in LR has come a long way. The rest of the images plus another sample can be...