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Watermark

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Anonymous, 29 October 2008 15:40

A watermark is a name, logo or symbol superimposed onto an image to clarify the copywrite of the image. A digital watermark isn’t always visible, but encoded into the image so that software can decipher it.

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Watermark

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Anonymous, 29 October 2008 15:40

A watermark is a name, logo or symbol superimposed onto an image to clarify the copywrite of the image. A digital watermark isn’t always visible, but encoded into the image so that software can decipher it.

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Test Print

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Anonymous, 02 June 2008 11:16

Use this test file to help balance the colours in your prints. First download the image, choose a location on your computer you wish the image to be saved, enter a memorable Filename and click Save. Depending on your connection it may take 10 minutes to download the 3.2mb file. How to use itOnce you’ve downloaded the image you can ...

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Contact print

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Anonymous, 23 October 2007 11:42

A contact print is a photographic image formed by placing an exposed and developed piece of film (it can be negative or positive type film), emulsion side down, and pressing it closely on to a piece of photographic paper – hence the name contact print. Generally, this is achieved by placing the film and photographic paper beneath a piece of ...

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Dye-sublimation

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Anonymous, 18 October 2007 15:42

A printing process that uses a three-coloured ribbon rather than ink cartridges. It uses tiny heating elements to transfer each colour separately onto a dedicated printing paper. The paper has to pass through the printer for each colour to build up the final image. The finished prints are much closer to traditional photographic paper in feel and characteristics than most ...

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Dots per inch (DPI)

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Anonymous, 18 October 2007 15:39

DPI is a measure of printing resolution; in particular it refers to the number of individual dots of ink a printer can lay down on the print media within a linear one-inch (2.54 cm) space. Up to a point, which is usually determined by the resolution ability of the human eye, printers with a higher DPI specification produce prints with ...

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Calibration

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Anonymous, 18 October 2007 15:06

The aim of colour calibration is to adjust the colours of one output device to match those of another, and in the context of digital photography the most common form of calibration involves adjusting a computer monitor and printer, with the aim of producing a print that appears identical in saturation and dynamic range to the same image when it ...

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Burning

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Anonymous, 18 October 2007 15:02

Burning is the reverse of the dodging technique. In the case of burning-in a print, the print is first given an exposure that produces a range of normal tones, before extra exposure is given to the area or areas that need to be darkened (again, it is assumed that the technique is being used with a negative-to-positive process, therefore increasing ...

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Banding

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Anonymous, 18 October 2007 14:55

Banding is the result of one or more of the tiny ink nozzles being blocked on the print head creating hairline stripes all over your image. The lines happen at regular intervals as the print head is passed across the paper, creating a very ugly pattern. Having blocked nozzles is a regular occurrence, as they are so small, and even ...

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