What is Image processing?
Image processing is very important in my work, as it allows me to quickly and accurately analyze digital images for a variety of purposes. This includes being able to identify objects or features in images, as well as to generate characteristics such as shape, size, and color. This helps me to make informed decisions about how to best manipulate a digital image, and how best to use the data collected from it. Image processing has become increasingly relevant in my work as I have been working more and more with emerging technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.
With the development of face recognition and image search technology, image processing has become even more important in my work. This technology allows me to find similar images from a large database in a short amount of time and with greater accuracy. This technology also helps me to create objects, features, and details in images that weren’t there before. I am also able to process large quantities of images simultaneously, which helps me to speed up my work process.
In conclusion, image processing is a very important component of my work and I rely heavily on it to complete the tasks I am assigned. Without image processing, I would not be able to complete my work to the same high standards.
How I do image processing in my work?
I don't consider a photo finished until it's "done" (remember that editing is all about post-processing the photo, literally finishing the photo). I was trained to use a "wet" dark room, mostly in black and white. No matter how many steps there are between exposure and print, print is always the goal and always the best print. "Shooting" is a very procedural act.
Long before, I got my first digital camera, I got my hands on
a copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements, iteration 2.0, released in 2002. Elements
is sometimes referred to as "Photoshop Lite" because it is meant to
cover many of the most commonly used elements (in games that are fully designed).
As an old man wet in a dark room, I was completely blown away. I still make
films, and to be honest very few, but it was a time when people who were about
to spend an hour at the corner pharmacy would offer CD negatives or digital
slides. I started paying a premium to get CDs so I could play with the photos
on the computer.
I often use this pair of before and after photos to
illustrate why I became an instant bazooka (a fancy word for post-processing,
digital editing, as you like to call it) almost from the start. The photo
below, from a digital CD, was made in 2006 with a Canon T90. This is the last
picture of the slide, Fuji I think, but I ran out of battery so had to count
them. But as the train came out of the tunnel at 40 mph there were two people
also taking pictures in my frame and I pulled the camera to the right... well,
a lot of things weren't done yet.
However, there are still a lot of things wrong like
artifacts in the sky, silhouetted halos and so on, but below are some of the
things I did to enhance the original using Element 2.0.
Adjust the tilt and cut the edge of the slide to the right.
I moved the two boys as smoothly as possible with the clone
seal (it was nothing but a miracle to me).
Unlock details in the chassis with the dodge tool (also
wonders, especially since there seems to be no compromise on quality).
Generally light and open shadows.
Be careful cloning telephone poles and cables.
He noticed all the dust in the sky.
It was a very early attempt, but I still think it improves
the image significantly.
In 2007 I received my first live digital camera, a small Nikon L-12 P&S. Only compressed JPEG files are provided but I found them great. Again, as a wet old man from the darkroom, I never show or post uncorrected photos to at least reveal the shadows. I've always learned to keep a full copy of the original JPEG for reference as I progress.
I soon discovered
that JPEGs tend to block out light, but there will always be more detail in the
shadows than is immediately apparent, so I'm used to exposing the brightest
highlights and then "processing" for the shadows. There's often
artifacts and noise, but I'm on a journey that I now know won't end until, for
whatever reason, I can't take a picture. For years I've only shot raw with a
much more sophisticated camera, but I still never show an unedited photo, these
days mostly in Adobe Photoshop Light-room CC Classic and full Photoshop when I run into things I
can't or can't do done by Lightroom' not doing well.
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