Short Glossary Pantone® is a printer ink to ensure true colors on press.
.gif .png and .jpg are file types used on the internet. .png is the least lossy, Quality degrades
precipitously with mulitple save-overs on many file types.
Vector images are scalable with no loss of quality also known as linework. Bitmap images follow the beetle rules at right. Not infinitely scaleable.
.pdf : portable document format developed by Adobe® for sharing files and archives of files.
html : hypertext markup language designed to inter-connect Universities - now makes us all hyper
Reverse type : limited use only please, see how hard this is to read?
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Images and image data
An Explanation or two ... what's in a name. A Pixelmap is another word for the image that you see. In all media whether print or on-screen, it is composed of tiny pieces that become a whole. Like a digital pointillism. Pixels used to be square but can now be round.
Can you fix it? If there is enough data. I fix things pixel by pixel when necessary.
The above demonstrates a good photo right, blown to unuseable proportions left. If it is a terrible source, it is very hard to fix.
When you have a very large hard to move object that is about to ship out, I can still deal.
About to ship and plexiglass protection stays on! I drew in necessary details to show off the product. This can be called photo-rendering, where some part is real and the rest can follow. I love this kind of work.
This took a bit of doing, but worked well.
Pantone Orange 1505 and black. The dimensionality of the door was created from the 2 colors, 2 plates. The printer did a fantastic job of controlling alignment on press.
Again, photography conditions are often not ideal but toning down the background achieved focus on what was important.
Better, but still not what I saw that evening, Fred was glowing.
How funny that the pug friends lined themselves up, and that I was able to find the hats to fit their specific personality. Note the shadow mimicing flash behind.
For demonstration purposes only, you would never know this my very alive friend and not a historical portrait.
The orange glow is real, the chairs the canvas for the color.
Unretouched. The camera captured more intensely exactly what I was seeing. Purple. When working with the photos taken by others, I am careful to keep the intent of the photo in mind before I do any color correction. Shadows often have color, even if not this obviously.
Some days it would seem as if things were flying around here.
I finally caught a falling drop on one photo and the tiny one on a different photo. The hand icicle is the real shape, I altered colors to enhance translucency.
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