another wee tip

we used to put a 8 thou foil between the art and the drum  or scan bed
this effectively knocks it out of focus slightly and reduces moire

scan at a high res then down sample, then unsharp mask

Quote from: Pointyhat on May 06, 2008, 07:39:37 AMWhat took you so long? 

Gosh Pointy I though I would never hear you say that!

try 'system prefs' and 'cds and dvds' and set 'insert photoCD' to ignore

i think thats what i did, been a long time

or is it iphoto
prefs advanced and unckeck the import to ilibrary box

cheers

cheers guys

i dont know when the results will be published, if at all, but ill ask

sorry gnubler
didnt realise you unfortunate situation

you can do a save as in firefox and save the whole page

what is the point of this when macs have screen grabs built in and you can save the whole web page as an archive anyway.
happy birthday jezza

when i worked in the newspaper we used to have pictures placed on the page but would have to wait for a caption. we used to write our own, while we waited for the real one to come along, to show that there was a caption to go with the pic. (Sometimes pics had no captions as the description was in the body text)

usually something like:- Caption caption; this pic needs a caption but we are waiting for one from the editor.

apparently it went on in a lot of papers

well one day it back fired on someone leading to the editors resignation and a prepess person getting the boot and the newspaper loosing all respect in the Scottish borders.

Not with us i might hasten to say but another small regional paper in scotland

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3920273.stm


this link has a bit as well   third story down  -DUMMY COPPY HERE

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2004/jul/29/features11.g21

Hi got an email from a fellow student, Iris, on the MSc course. she is conducting an online visual test and is looking for people to take part. any of you guys can help?
just read the below and follow the link. and no this is not a wind up!
cheers iain

From Iris:
Dear all,

Those who are working with images, are familiar with the difficulty of color representation in computer systems: one captures an image, scans it, or already has the file on his computer, works with it, saves it, puts it up on the Internet-and suddenly colors look differently than intended. When looking at the Internet page, colors appear yellowish in on the office monitor, they look too dark on the beamer of the colleague, dad's laptop alters the bright colors blueish and grandma's plasma display gives an overall pastel appearance.

This has to do with each monitor's adjustment, with the system used, with the image processing program, the browser, etc. This is how the Internet works at the moment and is exactly what we want to take advantage of. Our research group tries to use this circumstance to draw conclusions to quality estimations and employed standards. Normally, for such 'psycho-visual tests', people are invited to evaluate a bunch of images in a darkened, standardized room on expensive high-end displays. This is a very costly and time-consuming task which leads, amongst other things, to why the issue of color, particularly in computers, still is not solved to a common satisfaction. We are trying to create such tests more efficiently by having the user investigate images at home on his own computer.

For this, we are looking for volunteers who take part in this test; since the start last week about 150 people already took the test. It is simple and takes, depending on enthusiasm, ten to twenty minutes and has no side effects. The test is available in English, German and Polish, all information is stored anonymously. There is no right or wrong; we are simply trying to find out how the average Internet user evaluates images.

The research group of Empa's Media technology department and especially the project leader Iris Sprow would be glad if many ECI members would participate in the test; of course all others are encouraged as well, family, friends, etc.


Link to the test:
http://www.empamedia.ethz.ch/

Enjoy!

Iris Sprow

Quote from: Slappy on March 28, 2008, 09:27:43 AM

Quote from: papa v2.0 on March 27, 2008, 08:17:14 PMhttp://www.logoserver.com/index.html

this is one i found for sports logos for around the world.

That's for reference only right? I don't see any downloadable content. Bummer.

thats srrange because you used to be able to get eps or illy files of most of the logos

strange?

http://www.logoserver.com/index.html

this is one i found for sports logos for around the world.

hi

used this a lot when working for a newspaper.
http://www.sxc.hu/

its not bad and its free!

do you guys use icc profiles for converting your images?

what happens if someone sends you a pdf with images separated with an iso profile for coated paper

joe is right in that the curve is applied at the rip to the files ie in rip separations

found this link

www.imaging-resource.com/TIPS/LAWLER/DOTGAIN.PDF

a bit old but is pretty good basics

cant figure out why you guys are putting the curve on the plate instead of the image or file?

A plate should have no dot gain compensation on it, it should have the 50% dot 50% etc

can you explain your rationale for this process

and dont forget that scotland is gods country

why because its the supposed to be oldest bit of rock on the planet

Torridon rock etc
and yes we invented colour as well      ya bas

green and blue
or is that celtic and rangers
ho ho ho

yeh were the wee country that gave the world

Golf,
Telephones
Television
The steam Engine
The American Navy
Tarmacadam
Penicillin
Radar


etc but to name a few