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...

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. ... JPEGs disadvantage is that it throws away parts of an image to save space. ... Apparently you just can’t discard any piece of information so what JPEG does is divide the image into squares. ... It is the only alternative to make an image animated unless you want to use Flash.

Photomosaic Artistry by Paul Hood
DTG defines photo mosaics as photographic images or pictures made up of many, usually hundreds, of smaller photographic images. Viewed very closely, the small tile images can be recognized as individual photos, but at a distance, the composite of these images make up an entirely different image. ... William Hunt, considered as a photo mosaic guru presents these simple principles that are essential to creating good photo mosaics: (1) The large image MUST look good without too much jaggedness or color distortion.

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. ... JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) TIFF (Tapped Image File Format) BMP (Bitmap File) EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) Al (Adobe Illustrator) SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) To enable the sharing of such a photo, one solution is to compress the photographic data...

Image Formats: GIF, JPEG, BMP by Stephen Hames
When browsing the internet you are likely to come across many different image formats. However, the most common formats are: CompuServe GIF, JPEG, and Bitmaps. CompuServe GIF GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format and was standardized by CompuServe in 1987. ... JPEG The JPEG image format was developed by Joint Photographic Experts Group. ... The Bitmap format saves your image pixel for pixel, in other words, what ever you see on the screen before you save is what you see when you open the image again.

Digital Printing by Ken Marlborough
Digital Printing is the process of producing digital images on physical surfaces such as paper, photographic paper, film, cloth and plastic. Using this technology, one can print directly without using any intermediate mediums, such as a film negative or a plate-making machine. ... Computer-to-Imagesetter, computer-to-plate (commonly known as digital plate making) and computer-to-plate-on-press are the various digital imaging techniques. ... In direct imaging, electronic files are used to create films or plates for printing.

Knowing More About the Adobe Photoshop by Shane Goldberg
In 1987, brothers John and Thomas Knoll started developing a computer program that would focus mainly on imaging and photography using the computer. Little did the brothers knew by that time that they would come to develop one of the computer world's most sought after software---the Adobe... Now, no photographic image would be good without passing the digital process manipulation under Photoshop. ... Now, Adobe Photoshop is the market pioneer and leader in image manipulation using the computer. ... Now, photographers and even aspiring photographers are in equal footing when it comes to...

Choosing A Digital Camera Printer by Steve Gargin
There are so many types of digital camera printer on offer that finding the right one for your personal and business needs can be a very daunting task. However, there are a few main points to consider when choosing a digital camera printer that will help make the process a little easier. ... The aim of having a digital camera printer is to produce photographic prints that look as close to real photographic prints as possible. ... It is therefore important to ensure that you have the image file size to support the resolution of your digital camera printer.

Why Do I Need Photo Compression Software? by Scott Heath
Like time in a bottle, our photographs are memories of moments forever captured. In conventional cameras, chemical and mechanical processes captured images on film. To email a picture taken on film to a friend, the film needs to be developed into individual photos, and the photo then has to be... Digital photography allows us to store photographic images on our computers. ... The brightness values in the pixels of an image are converted into bits; 28 bits make up one byte and can have 256 different values.

An Introduction To LCD Projectors by Elizabeth Morgan
A projector is an apparatus for presenting an enlarged image on a screen from a transparency such as a photographic slide or a film. In a motion picture projector, each frame is held stationary at an illuminated aperture for a brief period, and then advanced by an intermittent sprocket or... Usually the image contrast is 400:1. ... The utilization of three high-definition two-inch poly silicon TFT LCD panels are key elements in the production of the three RGB basic colors. ... These LCD projectors use a high-transparency LCD panel for the above purpose.