Google is introducing a new open-source image format: "WebP" (pronounced ‘weppy’).Google claims that images in the WebP image format will be close to 40 percent smaller than JPEG files while providing for images that are of higher quality by virtua...
Scenarios“We’ve always done it this way!” or “This way works just fine!” Even when we have the time to think about how or why we do things a certain way, our thoughts are often clouded by that kind of thinking. However, it can make it easier ...
Some definitionsThese definitions are not "official" however they are useful to keeping the issues and discussions clear.A "plate curve" is a tone reproduction curve that is applied in the workflow to a plate in order to have it render tone values that...
In a film to plate workflow, linear film is exposed to the plate in a vacuum frame. The function of the plate exposure is to reproduce the halftone dots in the film as consistently as possible across the surface of the plate, and perhaps more important...
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A bit of backgroundBack in the old film to plate days the standard prepress procedure was to linearize film output. That means a specific tone request in the original file results in halftone dot in the film equal to the file tone request. So, for exam...