Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-16 Thread John Francis
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:37:45PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bruce Walker wrote: > > >On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Mark Roberts > > wrote: > >> > >> No file format will protect against image quality loss through resizing. > > > >Vector. > > > > > > Shoulda been Dick Dastardly. I disagree

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-16 Thread Mark Roberts
Bruce Walker wrote: >On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Mark Roberts > wrote: >> >> No file format will protect against image quality loss through resizing. > >Vector. > > Shoulda been Dick Dastardly. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Ma

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-16 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > No file format will protect against image quality loss through resizing. Vector. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the lin

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-16 Thread Mark Roberts
John wrote: >Thinking in terms of my workflow where I save all my layers, >intermediate steps & stuff in PSD files; when I have the image ready to >print or upload, I "convert to a profile" (sRGB) which also flattens the >image. Would that be the same as an embedded profile? Nope. Converting to a

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-16 Thread John
Thinking in terms of my workflow where I save all my layers, intermediate steps & stuff in PSD files; when I have the image ready to print or upload, I "convert to a profile" (sRGB) which also flattens the image. Would that be the same as an embedded profile? I re-size it to appropriate dimension

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-16 Thread Mark Roberts
P.J. Alling wrote: >What's wrong with it? Well it was supposed to replace the jpeg and gif >standards in web pages, (when it looked like jpeg might have been >patented and of gif always had always been owned by CompuServe IIRC and >there were threats of lawsuits over licensing), both of which

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-15 Thread P.J. Alling
What's wrong with it? Well it was supposed to replace the jpeg and gif standards in web pages, (when it looked like jpeg might have been patented and of gif always had always been owned by CompuServe IIRC and there were threats of lawsuits over licensing), both of which ware relatively lightwe

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-15 Thread Mark Roberts
P.J. Alling wrote: >You just described what png should have been except that it became a >bloated misbegotten camel from a committee trying to design a horse. I don't understand what you mean by this. What's wrong with PNG? The files are much larger than JPEG but that's an unavoidable consequenc

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-15 Thread P.J. Alling
You just described what png should have been except that it became a bloated misbegotten camel from a committee trying to design a horse. On 5/15/2014 1:06 PM, John wrote: There needs to be a file format that would be just like JPEG but without the lossy compression? Get it to the size you wa

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-15 Thread John
There needs to be a file format that would be just like JPEG but without the lossy compression? Get it to the size you want before saving in that format and then even if the "client" re-sized it & saved it over and over again it wouldn't lose quality. On 5/14/2014 5:18 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:

RE: Discouraged.

2014-05-15 Thread John Coyle
-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of P.J. Alling Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2014 7:18 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Discouraged. It really is discouraging, I shot a couple of publicity photos, gratis, for a volunteer organization. I processed them each to a good looking jpeg, and sent them off t

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-14 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
It's one of the sad parts of doing creative work for clients. They who pay get to say what is good.. Godfrey > On May 14, 2014, at 7:17 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > > been there... :-( > > ann > >> On 5/14/2014 17:18, P.J. Alling wrote: >> It really is discouraging, I shot a couple of publici

Re: Discouraged.

2014-05-14 Thread Ann Sanfedele
been there... :-( ann On 5/14/2014 17:18, P.J. Alling wrote: It really is discouraging, I shot a couple of publicity photos, gratis, for a volunteer organization. I processed them each to a good looking jpeg, and sent them off to the secretary of said organization, for their use. I received ba

Discouraged.

2014-05-14 Thread P.J. Alling
It really is discouraging, I shot a couple of publicity photos, gratis, for a volunteer organization. I processed them each to a good looking jpeg, and sent them off to the secretary of said organization, for their use. I received back a copy of their electronic newsletter and the photos had b