Archive for the ‘Playing with Pixels’ Category
Megapixel Madness
As digital camera’s gained popularity, there was a battle among the various camera manufacturers to gain as much market share as they could in as little a time as possible, and one of the tactics used to accomplish this, was to offer bigger and better image sensors with more and more pixels, and so began the megapixel wars. Read the rest of this entry »
To Sharpen Or Not To Sharpen?
The sharpening tool is one of those really cool tools found in most photo-editing programs – perhaps too cool! For those who have trouble finding it, it is cunningly called the “unsharp-mask” – why? No one seems to know. Regardless of what it is called, it is one of the first tools people try for perhaps a couple of reasons – not only does it produce instant visual gratification is also brings on a psychological effect. This psychological effect tricks us into believing that this tool can actually “fix” poorly focused images. Read the rest of this entry »