13 Reproduction and archiving

This chapter starts by relating photography with the printing presses used for printing pictures in large quantities for publication in magazines, newspapers, books, etc. Printing and photography have had a long-standing association. Today, many of the pre-press stages are handled by digital means, controlled by computers. Furthermore, modern digital photography also allows for making images widely available electronically; thus, the electronic distribution and sharing of images is discussed in several sections of this chapter. Once in the form of digital data, images can easily be manipulated and transmitted to clients and agents, or published on the Internet. In the section on multimedia we describe how photography ...

Get Langford's Advanced Photography, 8th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.