Microstock Photography
86 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins FIGURE 5.5 “Spring Field Background.” Pictures like this, with large areas of a single ...
AB FIGURE 5.6A and B Two sky sections: A showing noise (quite fi ne, not too bad), and B with the noise removed using noise-redu ...
88 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins use exposure compensation to increase exposure, so a good workfl ow might be as follow ...
then applying complex algorithms to remove the noise without destroy- ing too much image detail (Figures 5.9 and 5.10). Photosho ...
90 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins Another tricky issue can be that noise is often only visible in part of the image, say ...
by selecting less than 100% opacity for the history brush and then painting over the area where you want to reduce the effect of ...
92 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins almost invisible; but as the quality settings are reduced, more data are discarded in ...
Convert JPEGs to TIFFs (16 bit preferred) and only resave as JPEGs once you are done editing your image and ready to send to th ...
94 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins a rainbow pattern effect and can be quite diffi cult to deal with. But deal with it yo ...
Then, using a soft brush (see the white circle in Figure 5.14) of reasonable size, gently paint over the affected area. If the ...
96 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins Dust Blobs You have spent a lot of money on your digital camera, so it can come as a n ...
FIGURE 5.15 Dust blobs against a blue sky. or blobs on your sensor, you can return the camera for service and cleaning or try on ...
98 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins is in your image. The clone stamp tool can be used to remove unwanted parts of your im ...
area bounded in a green line is an enlargement of the offending area. Sharpening Your Images Your microstock images need be shar ...
100 Technical Issues: Killing the Gremlins need a little sharpening tweak. In Photoshop, use Unsharp Mask (Filter > Sharpen & ...
quirks. My experience with the microstocks has shown that careful sharpening, but not too much, is desirable. With your well-com ...
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Equipment Hopefully, having read this far, you are now thinking about joining the microstock revolution and you want to get stuc ...
104 Equipment FIGURE 6.1 Instant feedback from digital cameras gives them a decisive advantage for microstock use. This is illus ...
crystal display screen to give you instant feedback even as you take the shot. At the time of this writing, most digital single- ...
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