Wednesday, November 2, 2005

These 15 guidelines — along with the accompanying Best Practices documents — aim to clarify issues affecting accurate reproduction and management of digital image files. Although they largely reflect a photographer’s perspective, anyone working with digital images should find them useful. The guidelines have three primary goals: * Digital images look the same as they transfer between devices, platforms and vendors. * Digital images are prepared in the correct resolution, at the correct size, for the device(s) on which they will be viewed or printed. * Digital images have metadata embedded that conforms to the IPTC standards, making the images searchable, providing usage and contact information, and stating their creators or copyright owners. The guidelines were prepared by the UPDIG Working Group, an ad-hoc industry consortium whose logos and URLs are listed below, along with allied trade groups and manufacturers. http://www.asmp.org/publications/updig/index.php 6:32:23 AM

New Window XP Color Control Panel from Microsoft: "Mac OS users can skip this week's tip since they already have the ColorSync Control Panel but Windows XP users are likely to find this of interest. It's not that Windows XP is lacking in color management support or anything. It's just that Microsoft didn't make it as easy as Apple did to find information about the ICC profiles on your system. To address this annoyance Microsoft just released the Color Control Panel for Windows XP...." (Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.) 6:32:21 AM

Widget Watch: Depth of Field Calculator: The Depth of Field Calculator widget (DoFC for short) is a handy widget for those who'd like to learn a little more about DoF (Wikipedia link), and those who could use a quick tool to help get that perfect shot out in the field. You're able to enter your focal length, f-stop and distance to subject to see a meter of near focus (beginning of DoF), distance of sharpness to the subject, distance from subject to blurred background and the far focus (end of DoF). The author links to a few different resources to learn more about DoF and provides a manual (pdf link) to help get you off the ground. (Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog.) 6:32:14 AM

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