Digital imaging histograms (not to be confused with RGB Parades) are a census of pixels whose channel or composite values occupy certain “bins” or discrete values along the x-axis, or abcissa. Easy enough to say, but as the relational axiom goes, “it’s complicated.”
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A Proxy Workflow in Premiere Pro: Hardware, Software…and Practitioner “Configuration!”
Extreme resolution (e.g. 5.5K+, high bit depth, high frame rate, computationally demanding compression, etc.) can bring even a talented workstation to its knees. However, in our context there is really no such thing as a “fast computer;” a workstation is a combination of hardware, firmware, software, and operator competencies, and any one may drastically depreciate the other/s.
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Channel Operations (“ChOps”) in Photoshop: Automated v. Manual Sky Replacement Example
Photoshop is a shockingly “deep” application with latent but powerful features for generating selections. There are automated descendants of those features, such as the Edit>Sky Replacement… menu item. Are the automated functionalities competitive with manual ChOps?
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