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Category Archives: Publishing
Another Photo Book You Should Buy
Doug Brewer has finally put together a self-published photo book. (About time, Doug!) It has the quintessentially Brewer-ish title How to Milk a Wooden Cow and the cover bears a photograph demonstrating exactly what the title describes. Doug’s photography, at … Continue reading
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Copyright Issues: Licensing Photos, Music & Other Media Legally
Photographers have a thing about copyright. Perhaps you’ve noticed? Every other day someone on a mailing list or web forum is flying off the handle because he’s (it’s always a “he”) discovered an unauthorized use of one of his images. … Continue reading
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Calibrating and Profiling your Computer Monitor
After getting a high quality monitor, the next step toward accurate image processing is having your monitor properly calibrated and profiled. In my experience you are much better off using a high quality monitor without any calibration/profiling than you are using a budget TN monitor that is calibrated and profiled. (For information on selecting a good LCD monitor, see my earlier article on this subject.) Of course, ideally, you want to do both: Get a high quality monitor and have it fully calibrated and profiled, but profiling hardware and software costs money and if your budget is tight I recommend you start with the best monitor you can afford (favoring quality over monitor size) and save up to get a profiling kit later.
Calibration vs Profiling
If you’ve heard the term “calibrated monitor” you may have noticed that I’ve specified that your monitor must be “calibrated and profiled”. Calibration and profiling are two different (but related) things and you need both to be sure you’re monitor is showing you an accurate representation of the image that’s on your hard drive. Continue reading
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Computer LCD Monitors for Photography
This article is part 1 of a series — read part 2, Calibrating and Profiling Your Monitor, here. How do you choose the best LCD monitor for your computer? Do you know that there are three distinct types of LCD … Continue reading
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