CH. 4 the Digital Darkroom

I did not like hearing that JPEG files lose information when you resave the file.  This makes me want to work only in RAW which them makes me need more room to store them all.  I had never even heard of TIFF format which is unfortunate since it doesn’t lose the information that JPEGs do.  

Channels will be very useful to know about once I start working on my first project where I need to make black and white photographs from a colored photograph.  I usually just take the photograph in black and white from the start.  If I do want to change it later I usually just find a black and white setting to turn on.  I had no idea that there are 3 color channels and that they had anything to do with black and white.  I would have thought that they would just change settings for a color photo.  

I have never calibrated the monitor on my computer before editing my photos.  I don’t really understand the way they are telling me to do this in the book; I don’t really understand all the computer language.  

I used to use Photoshop in high school, I took a photography class, and I got a little obsessed with editing everything.  I have not used lightroom before this however.  I think it seems easier to work with.  Most of the settings are just change up and down individually.  I got very comfused sometimes with all the layers in photoshop, but I can think of some things that could only be done with photoshop.  But if you’re just editing some simple settings it makes a lot more sense to me to use lightroom.  I would like to get my own copy of lightroom and work on some of my older photographs.  I think it’s easy with these programs to go overboard and start making photographs that look unrealistic.  Sometimes this can be interesting, other times it can make a picture worse.  

A picture I over edited in Photoshop