Samples Galleries
There are 26 images in the samples gallery. Please do
not reproduce any of these images on a website or any newsletter / magazine
without prior permission. I make the originals available for private users
to download to their own machines for personal examination or printing
(in conjunction with this review), I do so in good faith, please don't
abuse it.
Unless otherwise noted images taken with no particular
settings at 1600 x 1200 resolution. Images reduced down to 800 x 600 to
fit onto your screen, some images have been level corrected (I'm a strong
believer in the Digital Darkroom) as always the original untouched image
is available by clicking on this reduced image.
Canon
Digital IXUS Samples Gallery One (26 images)
(posted 29/May/2000)
Digital Darkroom
I've not mentioned the Digital Darkroom for some time
but I felt the need to clarify the methods I use to produce the monitor
size image (800 x 600 in this case) for the samples galleries. I always
run my images through my "Digital Darkroom", that's simply deciding
if the image needs cropping, level correction or sharpening and simply
applying that, I do this for all the samples galleries. The key to a good
digital camera is how much and how often you need to do it.
Remember this never affects the untouched originals in
the galleries which are always available by clicking on the half sized
image.
In this example I've simply level corrected the image
(it was slightly under exposed, which I could have avoided when I took
the shot with a +0.3EV exposure compensation) and also applied a very
slight (0.6 pixel radius, 40%) Unsharp Mask.
Typical gallery preparation procedure is (Photoshop 5.5):
- Load image
- Half size (down-sampled to 800 x 600)
- Visual check image
- Check levels, correct slight over or underexposure
- Test Unsharp Mask (0.6 pixel radius, 40%), better or worse? If better
then apply
- Paste copyright message
- Save as smaller image
Things I (try to) avoid:
- Altering the image using curves (nonlinear adjustments permanently
break the image)
- Increasing saturation (may look more pleasing but is less likely to
be true to the original shot)
- White balance correction (though I may do this for a standard gallery
I try to avoid it for review samples)
- Touchup of any kind
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