The Gamut
Posted in Color Science on Aug 5th, 2007
The fundamental organization of a CMS is a “Gamut,” also called a “color space.” A Gamut is a three-dimensional volume of colors that represent the entire set of colors
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Gamma
Posted in Color Science on Jul 21st, 2007
Gamma is the rate of change in the luminosity of a pixel relative to the change in that pixel’s input value. At a gamma of 1, a perfectly black pixel will be perfectly black and a fully energized pixel will be perfectly white, with all intermediate steps produced in equal increments. This is the way that most digital camera sensors capture images, and it is termed a “linear” format.
JPEG: The “E” Stands For “Experts.”
Posted in Color Science, Extremely Extreme Photoshop on Jul 18th, 2007
The classic .jpg compression with which most practitioners are familiar is in fact a “lossy” compression algorithm, and the derogatory effects of the compression increase as the compression is more aggressively applied.