Ed’s Curves

The Dreadful Banding, Bane of the Photo Printer and How to Get Rid of it! Most photographers who print their work encounter this sooner or later. It often rears its ugly head in clear sky gradients – the dreaded banding, posterized tonal gradients that break into...

Color, Channels and Bits

So… I know I’ve horrified some readers with my choice of colorspace for my images. We’ve heard all of the admonishments from the “experts” and they have made a compelling argument for wide gamut colorspaces for photography. I am not...

Colorspaces, Bits & Channels

So… a few readers cornered me to ask – “Just what colorspace do you use as your Photoshop default?” Ok… so I kind of dodged that question in my last post. So… here it is… drum roll please… sRGB Thats right, satanic RGB, stupid...

How Much Color?

Which Photo is More Interesting (not a trick question)? Or… OK… so this is an easy one! The B+W image is way more interesting because we can actually tell what it is a picture of… Somehow, though, you’d think that the digital image industry...