ParrotTalk

May 21, 2010

Where to put your printer profiles- Windows and Apple

Filed under: Support — admin @ 4:03 pm

Here’s a quick video to show you where your Parrot and Angelica paper and media profiles go, whether you’re on a Windows or an Apple computer. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at all!

What does Bit Depth really mean?

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 2:29 pm

This is a nice, visual representation of what more bit-depth (the difference between 8-bit and 16-bit scans, for example) really means.

Nods to the Canon site that it comes from, with an extremely geeky explanation of all the details…  but for the visually oriented un-geeky amongst us, this says it all.

-Ted Dillard

May 20, 2010

The SECRET Aliasing Noise Fix

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 3:02 pm

OK kids- every once in a while you’re going to get some noise or aliasing- that nasty pronounced red, green or blue fringing on sharp edges of detail like hair and twill patterns- or the colored grainy stuff you see in shadows when the ISO is a little too high.  Here’s a secret trick to fix it.

-Ted Dillard

May 14, 2010

You too can be a geek!

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 3:14 pm

We’re pretty good at having answers, and when we don’t, finding them… not to tip our hands or anything, but here’s a little flowchart we use a lot. You know… when nothing else works. Which is hardly ever. …no, really!  

(Nods to coupdegrace!)

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