A false profile (that is, a profile with a non-standard gamma value) can be expressed as pencil-drawn curves generated by Photoshop. While this has little practical relevance, it allows us to understand what assigning a false profile actually does to an image by...Normally, when scanning an original photo to obtain a tiff or jpg file, it is necessary to establish a series of settings that are adjusted, as close as possible, to one’s requirements. The quality of this scanning process, therefore, is directly proportional to the...Sharpening with Gaussian and edge-aware blurring kernels; a new experimental approach on High-Radius Low-Amount sharpening; how to separately target edges and texture in the same high frequency range. Gaussian, Bilateral and Mixed pyramid decompositions, efficient... 