How to Get the Best Color with Blurb’s PDF to Book
Manage color with Blurb’s PDF to Book workflow.
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Manage color with Blurb’s PDF to Book workflow.
Learn more in my online Bookmaking resources.
Learn more in my Professional Portfolio workshop.
It’s challenging to reduce the luminance (light and dark) component of noise without compromising image sharpness; often it requires a careful application of specialized software.
However, you can easily reduce the color component of noise using Photoshop.
Here’s how.
1 Duplicate the Background layer and turn the duplicate layer’s blend mode to Color.
2 Blur the layer (Filter: Blur: Gaussian Blur).
Be careful not to use the blur filter too aggressively. If contours exhibit reduced saturation, use a lower filtration
Using this technique, only the color of an image will be blurred, not its luminance; image sharpness will not be compromised. Luminance noise will persist; other methods are required to remove it.
This industrial strength technique is most useful when dealing with serious color noise when a Raw converter’s features can’t go far enough, such as the larger areas of color noise found in some images from Bayer pattern demosaicing.
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The option to print without color management is missing in Photoshop CS5. This makes it impossible to print IT8 targets to make custom profiles with. Adobe has released the Adobe Color Printer Utility to help you do this.
Find the utility and instructions on how to use it here.
Julieanne breaks down the differences and points out the advantages of using virtual copies and snapshots in Lightroom 3. Since both features were designed for specific tasks, discovering what they do best will allow you to take advantage of each of their strengths.
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Julieanne Kost explains how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog, how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command, as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to photographs from the catalog into individual files (or sidecar files) so that they can be read and utilized within additional applications such as Adobe Bridge.
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Adobe Evangelist Julieanne Kost answers one of the most commonly asked questions “If should you use a single catalog for all of your photographs or if you should you use multiple catalogs?”. As a general rule, she recommends that you use as few as possible, but discusses when using multiple could be beneficial.
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Adobe Evangelist Julianne Kost demonstrates the advantages of working with and archiving to the DNG raw file format over proprietary raw file formats as well as choosing which tool to use to convert your files as you move through your workflow.
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Learn from Julianne live before our 2011 Iceland workshops.
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Determine depth of field after exposure? It’s coming!
Mac Holbert and I concentrate on Fine Art Workflow in our Epson sponsored seminar today in Seattle for ASMP.
Free giveaways include Adobe CS5, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Pixel Genius Photo Kit Sharpener Pro, OnOne Plug In Suite, X-Rite Color Passport, and more.
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