Better Available Light Digital Photography : How to Make the Most of Your Night and Low-light Shots

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from an assignment or real stock shoot. In most of these fun

shoots, he will capture images in the largest JPEG size. With

cameras such as the Canon EOS-1D Mark II, the JPEG fi le

is adequate for magazine reproduction even up to full-page

bleed.

Sometimes a client needs just a single image and wants to see

thumbnails for a really quick look. Using Photoshop’s Save for

Web command (File > Save for Web), you can create a few

JPEG fi les that can be easily e-mailed. It’s probably a good

idea to use Photoshop’s Text tool to add a copyright notice,

not so much because somebody might steal the fi le—that

won’t stop a truly determined thief—but as a way to identify

the fi le among the many the client may be evaluating. A far

better way to protect your fi les is to embed your copyright data

inside them.

Embed copyright with your fi les

You might want to embed copyright protection into your image

fi les even before you initially burn the fi les to a CD/DVD.

The sooner you do it during the workfl ow process, the better

protected you will be downstream. The process uses Adobe’s

Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), which is built into Pho-

toshop. XMP is a labeling technology that allows you to embed

data, commonly known as metadata, into the image fi le itself.

With XMP, desktop applications have a common method

for capturing, sharing, and—most important to us photogra-

phers—rights management. Instead of having a big copyright

notice obliterating the digital image, you can use the following

steps to make your copyright notice an integral part of a digital

fi le itself:

Step 1: Open a blank document in
Adobe Photoshop. (File > New)
and click OK.