by Damien Symonds | Apr 7, 2016 | Digital Files
My very dear friend Raelene sent me a file this morning that wouldn’t open on her Mac. She was getting this annoying error: “Could not complete your request because and unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found.” I’d love to blame this on...
by Damien Symonds | Feb 3, 2016 | Digital Files
Whenever I visit photographers’ websites, I’m often appalled at how slowly they load. It’s a terrible first impression for a visitor to your site, and maybe catastrophic to your chances of snaring them as a customer. I have a lovely fast cable...
by Damien Symonds | Dec 27, 2015 | Digital Files
Digital image resolution can be a confusing issue, and there is a great deal of misinformation floating around. This is because there are two definitions for the term “Resolution”. Definition One: Pixel Dimensions The NUMBER of pixels in something. Usually...
by Damien Symonds | Dec 27, 2015 | Digital Files
This article was last updated in October 2018. Everybody’s complaining It seems that everywhere I turn I see photographers complaining about the quality of their images when posted to Facebook. Yes, we all know that Facebook compresses our images, and yes, it...
by Damien Symonds | Dec 27, 2015 | Digital Files
I know I’ve already got a “Myths” page, but this myth is a biggie, so it gets its own article! The Situation Very often, in discussions about printing, I read the advice: “Don’t resample your image. Just resize it to the correct...
by Damien Symonds | Dec 27, 2015 | Digital Files
The web is full of nonsense about various photographic matters. Most of it is evangelical rubbish, some of it is old-fashioned misinformation. Let’s clear up a few things … MYTH 1: Adobe RGB is for printing Oh boy, hasn’t this myth caused a lot of...
