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>The picture was a closeup of a seagull sitting on a red "fire-hydrant" >of
>some sort taken on Santa Barbara pier. The background is one solid >shade
>of a very deep, dark blue, which is accurate in color, just faint
>"posterization"??
If I recall the previous parts of this thread from Ed (BigBoy - that's not
a comment on your romantic capacity, is it?) hadn't you said you experienced
this problem with a jpeg file? If so, I have had the same problem (at least
it sounds the same) with a compressed jpeg and find the problem to have
everything to do with the results of saving and compressing to jpeg - and
only in blue areas, like dark skies.
ImageReady (comes with PS 6) is helpful here. Don't save your scans or your
PS files to jpeg - for a lot of reasons (try using tiff) - but after touchup
in PS go to File->Jump To and if ImageReady is installed it will be there as
a menu selection. Click on this, ImageReady will open (it takes damn near as
long to load as PS) and your image will be loaded directly from PS
automatically. Now you can play with a number of jpeg or gif resolutions,
optimize your photos for the web and make further adjustments in ways
similar to PS. You will likely need to make further adjustment because I've
found that ImageReady, when converting to jpeg, tends to change color
balance, contrast, saturation, etc. Still, you get -Lots- of control over
your jpegs.
BTW, if you change image size in ImageReady then save and go back to PS, the
image you left in PS will have also been changed in size. You can simply
cancel this if you haven't saved the ImageReady file in the same file type
as the one you were playing with in PS.
Hope this helps. I really like ImageReady - especially it's integration with
PS.
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