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Great advice, DN...made photo life a lot simpler.

Thanks, Jon. I obviously now have a lot of reading and understanding to do.  Although I have been taking pictures for quite a while, I rarely had anything printed...just liked looking at the ...

Thanks, Steve

No problem as I don't use a home printer and send images out to the likes of Walmart, Shutterfly, Snapfish...etc.  So, leaving things at 180ppi shouldn't matter.

So, I'm wasting time and effort by changing to 300ppi as the printer takes care of this???  I should just leave image at 180ppi? Good to know I'm in good company.

OK, so it does appear that the 180ppi is the native size when shooting at 10M (use 10MP so that I can use the digital extended zoom).  And, it is nice to know that leaving the image uncropped, I ...

I have to admit that I have a very difficult time understanding resolution and image size.  And, believe me I have tried.  With this thread I'm not looking for any tutorials, but would like to ...

My Florida's Bird book, pg 111, shows a Fulvous Whistling Duck, which in no way looked like the duck in my image. Also, a picture of a Whistling Duck I took a while ago, didn't look like the duck ...

Terrible image as taken through window and lanai screening, but hopefully identifiable. I live in SE FL and my bird book either doesn't identify this bird, or I am just missing it.

There are a lot of Egyptian Geese in SE Florida where I fish.  I see them all the time, but I have never seen one with such interesting coloration; not even close. Perhaps, I'm not looking close ...

After seeing the pleasing results of just going to Cloudy, this will be my next project. Thanks.

WOW!  Just ran some very rough handheld test shots comparing AWB to Cloudy, using both Standard and Vivid styles. The pictures are fairly crappy as the in-camera  style customizations need to be ...

Interesting that you bring up cool colors with the FZ1000.  I was just told that some of my images were a bit too cool, but I'm rather naive about this aspect of photography.  How do you "warm up" ...

Are you saying that as you shoot in RAW and PP. that some elements of your image that would have shown zebraing, can be managed in PP?

Hey Avian, I appreciate your comments.  Could you expound a bit on "....just cool color like?"  Also, both of the images were close ups.

Interestingly, I just started looking at doing what you have suggested with regard to toning Vivid down a bit, and also checking out the two scenery modes.  But, let me ask, when using Scenery or ...

Thanks for your input, Albert.  Although I rather enjoy and don't mind PP'ing, I am looking to reduce some of that effort.  I started taking a look at Vivid and natural.  Perhaps, if I find Vivid, ...

I'm still in the "amateurish" testing phase, but good to know that my eyes aren't completely gone. I'm now looking into leaving the NR at 0 and fooling with sharp and contrast.  I find, at least ...