Digital Light & Color

Further on this topic: I was pleased to see that Jonathan confirmed that the mere act of opening and re-saving a Jpeg triggers the lossy degradation, even if no edits were undertaken. That's because that was the underlying assumption behind an experiment I conducted when I first started using PWP ne...

I know this sounds really elementary. But in my early days of using PWP over a decade ago, I didn't realize I could control the size of the window containing my image in order to make it as large as possible while still leaving room for other windows (including dialog boxes). And if I want to view a...

Thanks, Dieter, for doing some work on this .... I'm glad you read a white balance of about 6000 which confirms that I'm not somehow getting a different result. It is just that for my taste, I thought it produced an overly warm result -- unless the subject had just spent the afternoon at the beach. ...

Thanks for weighing in, Jonathan. This remains a mystery to me. Based on Dieter Mayr's conjecture that it might be related to overexposure of the Whibal white balance target, I subsequently established contact with a person (not a PWP user) who has published treatises promoting ETTR. The question wa...

Thanks for the suggestions, Dieter. I don't think there was significant ambient or reflected light from a source other than my studio light bounced from a white umbrella. The ceilings in the room where I was set up are about 10-12 feet high (and the studio light and umbrella were on a stand, aimed d...

A recent experience with white balance adjustment and color cast correction has me puzzled. Perhaps someone can explain what is going on. It involves functions in both the raw converter and in the transformation Color>Balance. It all arises from my experience with some portraits I took recently of t...

I'm not quite sure why you inverted the mask, Tony. A mask "image" includes black and white parts that are simply reversed upon inverting. You do know, of course, that in most transformations, immediately to the left of the box where you input the mask there is a horizontal scale. There is...

Tony I'm sure someone will chime in with a more explicit explanation. But to get you started, Jonathan's method does not finalize the creation of a mask at the end of Step 1 (i.e. do not click OK after roughly outlining the general area where the more refined mask is intended to be). After generally...

Thanks, Jonathan ..... I realize that PWP's "freehand retouching tools" do alter the image being worked on in a non-reversible manner. That's why I have learned to make a copy of the previous stage in my editing process before undertaking such work so if I don't like the results of my &quo...

When I visit some online forums that discuss photo editing software, I occasionally read about the wonders of software that exhibits "non-destructive' editing -- as opposed to, I presume, "destructive" editing. As a user of PWP only, I have a little trouble wrapping my head around wha...