Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>can someone tell me what is the purpose of using the best lenses, waking up >at odd hours, standing in the rain...etc... to get that super picture, when >at the end, if it is to be published digitaly (i.e. web) the results are >mediocre at best? Because some day, the Web will be able to transfer that quality when bandwidth catches up to our ambitions? :-) There is a program called Debabelizer which is specifically designed to optimize pictures done in Photoshop (or a competitor) that are large file sizes to smaller sizes appropriate for the web. We use it at our Newspaper to process pictures for the web. On a Mac it can be automated with Applescript to do a whole batch of files in a folder. Adobe has a new program, Image Ready I think is what it's called, that does the same thing. But it's not automated like Debabelizer. They both cost about the same last time I looked. Check them both out. Might be what you want. I do my own pictures in Photoshop 5 and ignore all that stuff. I think they look pretty good, if low resolution. But that will change as bandwidth goes up. You have to know how to use Photoshop properly. There are no magic "filters" or "functions" that will fix up your pictures. You have to use your eye. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch There Are No Great Men, Just Men That Do Great Things. Smith Wigglesworth, from along time ago