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Subject: [OM] Re: 10/28 fragment of my day
From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:07:34 -0500
Chris,
Sorry to nudge a bruise.  I was very impressed jp2000 when I played with it 
once, but I do recall a lot of overhead to the process.

I've been thinking more about your original question on postprocessing of 
the image (which is here:  http://soli.inav.net/~jdub/day/day27.html).  I 
started to wonder why you asked, and then wondered if the colors are screwy 
on your machine, and then realized my standard processing, while standard 
for me, is a bit more than just cropping.  So let me itemize my post routine:

1) Set levels (this might have required setting the black point only)
2) Mess with curves (this one didn't require any messing)
3) Resize to c.400x600 pixels @72 dpi
4) "Save for web" in PS at about 50KB
5) Open file, change profile to sRGB, and re-save

The last step makes the colors more garish on the web version in 
Photoshop.  In the various browsers it makes a better match to the original 
capture in PS (on my machine).

Joel W.

At 06:11 PM 10/30/2004 +0100, you wrote:

>Joel
>
>Yes, of course, the degree of compression varies between "quality"
>levels; I was thinking of size alone.
>
>JP2k is rather a sore point with me.  I bought PS CS partly on the
>promise of integrated support for JP2k, but it takes 3 months to save a
>100mb file in this format.  For some reason Adobe decided that the user
>wants to control the format more closely than other formats and gives
>the user a pre-save dialogue box with a preview of the effect.  It's
>like the Save for the Web operation: way too complicated ...
>
>... so I don't use it now.  I will save my files as .psd as that seems
>to be smaller than a .tif file, save re-sized and re-sampled files for
>web use (600 pixels, re-sampled using Bicubic Sharper) and use .jpg for
>keeping a smaller file for cataloguing.  The main file will go on a CD
>or DVD and, of course, I retain the negative or slide in case my drives
>go kaput.
>
>Chris


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