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Here’s a 300% blow up of Photoshop’s 1600×1066 version of the 5740×3840 master photo. Amazingly enough with a jpeg setting of 8, Photoshop CS6 placed last in our quality tests albeit coming second in terms of size (168 KB). The interface works but is a bit clumsy and heavy-handed in comparison to the shareware alternatives. It’s called Image Processor and is under the File Menu in the Scripts submenu. The function in Adobe Photoshop is a bit hidden. This is the original before resizing for comparison.

Here’s a copy of the original at the same size as the 300% blowups to establish detail: Fortunately in the last five years open source solutions have caught up on a lot of the core image processing tasks so any image processing program developer has many solid libraries from which to choose. It used to be that only Photoshop had really good resizing and jpeg reduction. Here’s an older article from our archives which shows the difference between good and bad compressions. There’s lots of programs with either weak resizing or compression algorithms. When resizing and compressing for internet there are two variables to be traded off: quality vs size. Once you have your finished masters in your hand from your RAW program of choice one needs to be able attractive versions for web. I’ll post more details on culling and raw development in a future article.

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The best alternates to cull would be Lyn with PhotoNinja as a strong RAW processor with full camera support and excellent noise reduction. My main path now is FastRawViewer (works from 10.6 through 10.11) to cull followed by Iridient Digital for RAW development. Some people like to watermark at this stage (please don’t watermark your masters!). One needs a tool to create versions for email and website quickly and reliably.

RAW processing and creation of the JPEG masters.

A photographer saves a lot of time if s/he only touches photographs which are going to press.

initial cull: creating selects for processing.

There are three stages to preparing photos for the web. The criteria are ease of use and high quality. The goal is to find simple and quality alternatives which stay close to the OS and open source formats. Nor based on Apple and Adobe’s inconsistent support and changing conditions does it seem such a good idea to depend on a single application with a closed format library.

So at this point, there is no all-in-one solution for photo management and processing. And no I don’t want to keep all my photos in the cloud, thank you. Plus it’s difficult to work on photos on multiple computers. Good luck keeping your libraries working between versions. Both Aperture and Photos are occasionally cross-compatible with iPhotos which is not compatible between versions. Aperture 3 was force-retired and replaced by Photos (I own a copy and am not thrilled). Unfortunately Apple is as unreliable as Adobe here, albeit more customer-friendly than Adobe. Adobe is as customer-hostile company as Microsoft and not to be trusted.

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The bad taste of rental only software makes even DNG a path that one would want to stay off.

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Plus, Lightroom is dog slow when quickly going through photos for culling (both creating full size previews and browsing them afterwards). Adobe Lightroom 4 (last version which runs on 10.6) already forces one to convert originals to DNG (data loss) to be able to use the latest cameras. Since Adobe went cloud only and non-purchase, I’ve been working hard to put together workflows which don’t include any Adobe and work on 10.6 forward.

This is the target image in PhotoBatcher’s 1600×1066 versionįor years I output my photos for web and email with Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop.

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Today’s challenge is how to quickly turn this finished 5760 x 3840 10 MB photograph into a a high quality and compact web version:

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