Basics of RGB and CMYK for Ink Jet Printing at Home by William Leung
In the world of home ink jet color printing, there is some confusion concerning CMYK color and RGB color. Many photo enthusiasts don't realize what kind of color space their digital cameras output and are confused when it comes to printing images off of their home ink jet printers. ... You could notice significant color changes to your image, especially in the very intense color areas of your image. ... If you are more experienced with photo color correction and want more control over the color of the image, print in CMYK.

Putting Digital Colors in a Different Hue by Lala C. Ballatan
Nowadays in the digital technology world, consumers are getting more inclined in the digital imaging market. As compared before, digital imaging tools like digital cameras, color printers and color scanners became less expensive, thus more accessible to eager users. ... How the Human Eye sees Color Identifying Primary Colors Additive and Subtractive Color Color Models Storing images in computers Visualizing a color space Color Mixing Color selection Color manipulation Color mapping and calibration As industries reputed in art and science converge to the digital domain,...

JPEG and GIF the Differences by Maricon Williams
JPEG and GIF image formats are both compression based formats. They are the most widely used and supported image formats for web. They take an uncompressed image such as bitmapped image and compress them to a smaller file size. A lot smaller image size is moreover the result of this conversion. ... A flat color can compress well to even one tenth of the original size while a complex non-competitive color will save approximately 20%. ... It is the only alternative to make an image animated unless you want to use Flash.

Scanning Made Easy? by Blur Loterina
When you scan an image, does it look more like a duplicate made by a photocopier? Does enlarging your image give you headache because you always get a sort of colored boxes, instead? A scanner is just like a photocopier. The only difference is that, a copier creates a copy to a paper while a... Pixel, from the words “picture element”, is the basic unit of programmable color in a computer image. ... A scanned color image, when printed, has faded and jagged colors. ... For you to achieve the image quality you desire, you should know and understand how these affect your image.

Digital Photos Explained by David Manson
The Basics of Digital Images An image, of course, is any visual representation. Still images, such as photographs and drawings, capture a single, visual moment in time; while moving and video images, such as television and movies, are able to capture entire periods of time. ... Image file types—such as GIF, JPG, BMP, EPS and others—simply use a slightly different technique for describing the proper order and color of the pixels that comprise a given image. ... Although the GIF image appears less detailed than the original raw photo—a result of the compression and reduction in color—the...

Why There Are Color Differences in Printing from Your PC by Paul Curran
This article describes the basic properties of color, what the relationships are between them and the differences between what you see and what you actually get using your inkjet cartridges. Properties Most of you will have come across these three; Hue, Saturation and Brightness; if you have... You can experiment with printer driver settings or use image editing/color management software to help match up the two. ... With 'error diffusion' inkjet cartridge dots are merged with surrounding color dots to produce natural colors with the possibility of subtle color gradation.

Create a Forest with Adobe Photoshop by Taejien Thoj
If you guys have photoshop and want to create a forest from scratch, well, listen up and follow some simple directions. Its fairly simple and once you get used to it, you'll be like, wow that was easy. It may not look like something you will do every single day, but its something worth trying... Change the brush size to like a 24 and change the two colors to a darker color (just move the color selector down a little) 8. ... Now, choose the colors #a3ad4d and #5f8e32 and select the "Gradiant Tool." Now at the top, select the one the looks like the top of the house and click on the color...

Photoshop Plug-ins: Making Photoshop Even More Powerful by Gabriel J. Adams
Adobe’s Photoshop software is a very powerful image editing program that is by far the market leader for editing image files. I use Photoshop extensively when creating, and editing images for the web sites that I design. Almost all professional photographers and printers also use Photoshop to... The Photoshop plug-ins can be grouped into a few major categories which include 3D, color management, digital asset management, photographic, retouching, and special effects. ... The digital asset management plug-ins are used to organize all of the digital images that you have created so that...

How Do Night Vision Goggles Work? by Ricky Lim
Ever wonder how do night vision goggles work ? How are they different from your daytime binoculars? Why it is always green color using night vision goggles? In this article, I will explain the inner working of night vision googles. The Image Intensifier Tube Night vision is only made possible... The energy charge will travel through the image intensifier and converts photons to electrons and strike a phosphor screen where the image is illuminated. ... Generation 3 night vision goggles are the most advanced with better image resolution and brightness and are considered even better than...

Image Conversion In Computers by Anantha Krishnan
JPEG, GIFF/JIFF, BMP, and TIFF are the most commonly used formats for storing still image files such as photographs, graphics, and drawings. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group and is a standard for image compression. However, some amount of data/detail is lost in the process. ... JPEG files store a full color range (24 bits/pixel as against 8 bits/pixels in GIFF).The display of images is particularly good on full-color hardware that is becoming common now. ... • JPEG files are extremely useful for image archiving purposes.