Digital Post-Processing Workflow Flashcards
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What does 'gamut warning' indicate when enabled in Photoshop?
Answer: Colors that fall outside the selected output color profile's reproducible range
Gamut warning highlights colors in the image that cannot be accurately reproduced by the selected output color profile, such as CMYK for print.
Which Lightroom panel allows you to selectively adjust the hue, saturation, and luminance of individual colors?
Answer: HSL/Color panel
The HSL/Color panel lets you independently adjust the hue, saturation, and luminance of eight specific color ranges: red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta.
In focus stacking, what is the key reason multiple exposures at different focus distances are merged?
Answer: To achieve front-to-back sharpness impossible with a single depth of field
Focus stacking combines sharp regions from multiple images focused at different distances, producing greater depth of field than any single aperture setting could achieve.
What is the recommended order of sharpening steps in a complete digital imaging workflow?
Answer: Capture sharpening → Creative sharpening → Output sharpening
The three-step sharpening workflow begins with capture sharpening to compensate for the anti-aliasing filter, then creative sharpening for emphasis, and finally output sharpening optimized for the output device.
When using content-aware fill in Photoshop, what does the software use to fill the selected area?
Answer: Texture and color from surrounding image areas analyzed by an algorithm
Content-aware fill analyzes the surrounding pixels and uses algorithmic synthesis to generate plausible texture and color that blends seamlessly with the removed area.
What is a 'neutral gray card' primarily used for in digital post-processing?
Answer: Establishing a custom white balance reference for color correction
A neutral gray card provides a reference point of known neutral color, allowing you to set an accurate custom white balance in-camera or during RAW processing.
In panorama stitching software, what does 'vignette correction' before stitching help prevent?
Answer: Dark seams at the borders between stitched frames
Correcting lens vignetting before stitching prevents visible dark lines or seams at frame boundaries where the dimmer edges of adjacent images overlap.