Good practices for images - was Re: Wallpaper Extras

Vara Prasad Pepakayala prasadpepakayala at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 12:59:29 UTC 2008


I understood.. I taught we should update only original pictures with all the
info. As you have given a go. I will tweak those images and upload the best
ones.. I will append this post after uploading the Images.
Thank you
Dreko

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>wrote:

> Vara Prasad Pepakayala wrote:
>
>>
>> I need to appen this section... this is my image...
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Pink_for_Pink.jpg ..
>>
>
> This is a good looking flower, but I think you can make it better following
> some "good practices" (I don't venture to call them "best practices"):
>
> - even some people disagree, I think a bit of digital alteration is useful
> and will improve your image (we are not uber-experts, so our photos do not
> come perfect from the camera). Look as a comparison to your image:
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/8/8c/Pink_for_Pink.jpg and my slight
> alteration: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/Pink_for_Pink-nicu.jpg
> I adjusted color levels and curves a bit (see a couple of paragraphs about
> this in my portraits tutorial:
> http://howto.nicubunu.ro/portraits_touch-up_gimp/) and increased the
> sharpness (the original image had a larger resolution, you resized it and
> this made it a bit blurry, so sharpen to compensate for resize).
>
> - your photo has a 1280x800 resolution, which is probably the screen size
> of your laptop (and is widely used on cheap-to middle priced laptops).
> However, a lot of other people have larger screens and for them a larger
> photo is more useful. You have a powerful camera, so you can produce photos
> with a large resolution (a wallpaper sized down looks better than one sized
> up). Of course it is a good thing to not leave the photo at the size
> produced by the camera (which is huge), but 1920x1200 looks like a good
> balance.
>
> - as you probably know, JPEG uses lossy compression. However, leaving the
> photo at 100% quality will produce a very large file size. In my experience,
> you can reduce the quality to 95-97%, have a considerable smaller file size
> and still acceptable quality.
>
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