Digital BW, The Print

With the ability that Lightroom offers to develop images, I'd advise you to
take your JPEG into Lightroom and process it in there. After you make sure
the file is good, detail in highlights/shadows, I'd then export to PS or ?
during which time you can export as PSD, TIF, to the size that you want as
well as 16 or 8 bit. I recently received some rather poorly processed JPEGS
to make prints from and was able to recover the detail much easier in
Lightroom than a few hours of mucking around in PS would have brought me. We
all know that in camera JPEG compression can be a problem, so there is my 2
cents. 

 

Eric

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Patrick
Carr
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:40 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] JPEG workflow question

 

Alan Kearney wrote:
> Patrick is right, although a TIFF file will usually be quite a lot 
> larger than a Photoshop native PSD file.
> 
> I wonder if upscaling from 8 bits to 16 bits will improve your images 
> or not. Your asking PS to "make up" pixel data, I think??
> 
> Alan
> 

True and I wonder the same thing, however, there are those who claim a 
change to 16 bit is better than leaving at 8 bit for large image 
adjustments. I haven't done any A-B testing since I process at native 16 
bit but it's not going to hurt anything--except for doubling the size of 
the file and slowing everything down.

My intuition says it won't make a lot of difference, but my intuition is 
wrong all the time!

Patrick Carr

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Carr Imaging
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