Seymour Digital Consulting, LLC

Category: Adobe

  • Large Image Files – PSB vs TIFF

    In this post, I am going to explore some basic differences between the various Photoshop file formats: PSD, TIFF and PSB

    I’m working on a very large image, and it is a panorama of (42) 10 MP captures, each between 8-10 MBs, merged into Photoshop CS5.1.

    Photoshop CS 5.1 can not save anything over 2.0 GBs as a PSD file…

    Photoshop CS 5.1 - 2 GB File Size error message
    Photoshop CS 5.1 – 2 GB File Size error message

    The TIFF file is 3.7 GBs…

    File Properties - TIFF
    File Properties – TIFF

    and the PSB file is 2.7 GBs…

    File Properties - PSB
    File Properties – PSB

    Open Questions

    In this example above, there is approximately 1 GB (25%) loss in file size…

    Where did it go?

    • File compress?
    • Color Data?
    • File Optimization?

    Findings

    • Photoshop PSD (max) file size: 2 GBs
    • Photoshop PSB (max) file size: 4 exabytes (300,000 x 300,000 pixels – 350 x 350 feet)
    • TIFF (max) file size: 4 GBs

    Observations

    • Lightroom is not “seeing” my 2.7 GB PSB file, but is “seeing” the 3.7 GB TIFF.

    References

    anyone got any ideas?

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  • After the Storm 01 – Hibernia Park (10/1/10) – Update

    After the Storm 01 - Hibernia Park (10/1/10)
    After the Storm 01 – Hibernia Park (10/1/10)

    On September 30th of last year, Tropical Storm Nicole, blew through the Chester County area, and dumped a great deal of water on us.

    The following day, I took about 375 images as I walked along the Brandywine Creek in Hibernia Park, and posted two sets of images on Flickr and added a Photo-blog entry of my experience.

    This image is a revisit of one of those captures, where I have incorporated several new software applications (Adobe Camera Raw 6.4.1, Photomatix 4.1 and Adobe Photoshop CS5) and techniques to create this image.

    I hope you like it!

    Please let me know your thoughts!

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  • Waterfall – Longwood Gardens hdr

    Waterfall - Longwood Gardens HDR
    Waterfall – Longwood Gardens HDR

    Originally uploaded by Andrew (SDC)

    This image was taken last summer, when I was at Longwood Gardens with my Father.

    It is 6 shoots at f29 between 1.6 seconds and 15 seconds.

    Processed using Photoshop CS5.

    Via Flickr:
    A small waterfall located within Longwood Gardens in Chester County (PA).

  • 12+ inches of overnight Snow!

    Day After a Heavy Snow (041)
    Day After a Heavy Snow (041)

    Last night, we were suppose to only get 6″-8″ over night… at mid-night, when we looked on to the deck, there was easily another 12″ inches…

    This morning, there was over 19″ total inches on our porch, 4″-5″ of which was from the storm late last in the week…

    I know many people saying that they are ready for Spring already, this has been one of the snowiest December to January’s on record, and we have not even gotten to mid-season yet!

    How we forget the two Blizzards in February, nearly back to back almost a year ago!

    The schools were closed for a second day, and it easily took me an hour and a half to get all the snow off our driveway, and then finally, I was able to spend a few minutes with my camera out in the snow.

    Wish I could have been more…

    – Andrew
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  • Wedding Photo – Restoration

    This was a 16×20 inch Wedding Photo restoration, mounted on cardboard, cut and torn in half.

    Torn 16x20 Wedding Photo restoration (circa 1960s)
    Torn 16×20 Wedding Photo restoration (circa 1960s)

    After several hours of work, I was able to achieve the bottom image.

    If you are interesting in getting your own photos restored, please feel free to contact me for a free consultation and quote.

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