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Large Pictures
At free-pictures-photos.com you'll find pictures which are very large and which may therefore also be used in the printing sector. In order to keep quality loss to a minimum, the images are saved in Photoshop with the highest jpg resolution. The photos were taken with a Nikon F100 single-lens reflex camera using Elite Chrome 200 slide film up to May 2011, when this was discontinued requiring a change to Kodak Professional Elite Chrome 100. Various zoom lenses were used, with a Nikon Micro 60mm used for close-up shots. The transparencies were scanned and retouching with Photoshop was limited to removing dust and some tonal-range corrections.
The pictures are for free if the user can see the name of this homepage. (web: link; print: reference)
If you don't wish to show the homepage address please make a donation.
If you use the pictures for your own home page, please ensure that they are saved on your server (no hotlinks).
The JPEG image format has become the most widely used digital image format. The acronym JPEG is derived from Joint Photographic Experts Group, who developed the format. JPEG is the correct term, although files are often saved under the extension JPG. The file size of a JPEG image can be reduced to save space, however, it is always advisable to save the original file, if necessary on an external hard drive or similar device, before any reduction is made. Once a file has been reduced in size it cannot be increased again. A compression of 50%, for example from 7 MB to 3.5 MB, will still provide a good-quality image with little loss of detail. A reduction to 5%, for example from 7 MB to about 265 K will provide a medium-quality image suitable for viewing on a screen but suitable only for an adequate print at postcard size. A reduction to 2%, for example from 7 MB to about 100 K of the original size, will only offer an acceptable image on screen.
A further consideration is that every time a JPEG file is opened, edited, saved and closed, the result is a slight loss of quality. To avoid this, editing should be made in one session. Saving without closing does not result in quality loss. Simply opening or displaying a JPEG image will also causes no quality loss if the file is simply closed again. If you need to carry out editing in numerous sessions, the image should be first saved in a different format such TIFF or PNG.