Maintaining quality of images is something that every image processor needs to know. There are various challenges that come along with the task. The whole process is something you need to have good knowledge about and understand how you will manage each stage.
Looking for the maximum quality is not very complicated as you need to commit time and employ the skill. Depending on your approach, you will find image processing easy of complicated. Imagine you can pick an image and do a small adjustment to have it ready.
Making the precision is easy because it is something that you already have. Some areas that need concentration is the noise sharpening and getting the best way to go about the task. Mistakes happen and some are avoidable as we have shown you in the section below.
Common mistakes of image processing
Artefact compression
Compression is a measure of storage that tends to press up the image. Most people love doing it at the final process. However, it ends up destroying all the work you do. You will notice something that looks like blocks in a flat area.
For a person who understands the basic about image quality, you will have tough times to do the management. The treatment to resizing images is ensuring that you do it before you save the image. Never wait to do the compression after doing the whole editing by compressing.
Here is another thing you may not know. Opening and closing images does decompression and recompression. You have to save it as a TIFF or High-quality JPEG file. You will maintain the best quality if you save the images that are still undergoing the process as TIFF files.
Sharpening
Sharpening has no big problem but over sharpening brings about s serious disease. JPEG images will need sharpening but the camera itself does some sharpening. However, during the image processing you have to reshape, recolor, and reduce the amount of noise too.
The detail is clearer and more visible after good sharpening. It looks finer but once you miss a small adjustment the quality of the image remains inferior. While sharpening, you have to look at the small details that are likely to disappear and then work non them.
You really need to ensure that the texture is working as you expect. The skin must also have the proper texture. You have to balance the wrinkles and the shape of the body for humans.
To avoid all this mess you have to focus on quality from the design stage. Sharpening is a process you should do towards the end of the process after implementing all the adjustments.
Losing contrast
Contrast is something that you need to work on very quickly. It may pose a challenge especially with the balancing to master the detail. Shadows and the dark parts especially on the faint areas also bring about the loss of contrast.
You need to understand that it is not every image that will balance as you expect. Managing the tonal makeups is essential so that you enhance the equal distribution. As you make the various changes you have to keep close monitoring of the contrast and tonal variation.
Losing variations
Chances of losing the highlights are very high when you expose the image too much. The highlight areas tend to become invisible in such instances. A good example is when you are taking the image of a duck and then you focus on it as a whole. Parts such as the hoof and the eyes become invisible.
Focusing the camera on the areas that you want to capture is a perfect move. A graph or grid is an ideal solution when you get to balancing the images and other factors. The job is easy as you have to ensure that you have captured the exact parts that you want to bring to light.
To manage the image you desire, you will look at the lines at the edges. Each line should be clear and have a common thickness from the rest.
Maintaining realia
Sometimes it is common to have images that do not maintain realia after editing. Color saturation makes the images look less real. A good example is when you take an image where there is too much light and the skies are blue. The image is usually clear on the eyes but after taking photographs and editing the color becomes faint.
When editing you have to ensure that you don’t overdo it to an extent that it looks unrealistic. As much as possible try to maintain the quality of the image. Never attempt to try to manage the color as it looks on the sky. You have to balance the different parameters so that they bring a real image that looks less exaggerated.
The choice of the editing software matters a lot. Most people will choose the free softwares which do not focus much on the best quality. You may need to choose a software that is simple to use and will deliver the image quality you desire.
Processing the JPEGs
Another mistake that most people do id the processing of the JPEGs. What most people don’t get clearly is the nature of the images as they undergo processing inside the camera. Immediately you take the image it undergoes processing and adjusts to the nature or the design you wish to have.
The fashion after you take the image is less destructive and you can do the adjustments only if you have to destroy it. In short the outcome of editing such an image is destructive. If you want to make a few edits then you will have to go to the raw image and make the necessary changes.
Increasing noise
The purpose of editing an image is to reduce the noise. However, some editors will add more noise to the image. You have to decide the nature of the image you want to have and then do the edits. You can easily notice that the raw images have too much noise.
It is not good to add more noise to a place that it is already present. More noise comes when you change the contrast, brightness and the sharpening measures. Some people do color patterning with an intention to make the color more attractive. Unfortunately, it does not offer a positive outcome.
If you have to do some changes, you have to know why you need them and the best way of implementation. You will zoom and do the necessary reductions so that you remain with the best quality only.
Conclusion
Photo processing is a very good process when you know the purpose for edits and how to do them. Many errors occur during the proves and can be disgusting. We have brought you proper knowledge that will help you get sound and quick processing.