Digital Artists

Loretta Lux 
She was born 1969 in Dresden, East Germany and she's known as a fine art photographer. She also is known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco. 
The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation.
Lux's work - at once alluring and self envigorating- usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources. She originally trained as a painter at Munich Academy of Art, and is influenced by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, Phillip Otto Runge. Lux’s photographs delve into notions of childhood, the unfolding story of growing up and “the discovery of self and the equivocal connection between self and world,” as she puts it. 


Here are a few of her pictures that are known for portraits of young children.

I found her work amazing to look at, i like the way her work comes across really different to other photographers and quite thought they were strange. I think that her pictures are all really clear and the lightening is very bright. You can see in her work that she uses photoshop and some pictures show thats its obvious. Lux's digitally composed images but there is more to Lux's photographs than inherent peculiarity.

I like the way Lux's uses the same child a few times in her images and makes them different each time, which i really like that she keeps a few for her photographs to the same image. This image Lux's has used photoshop as it shows in the image that the ball is falling, the colours are bright and clear. You can't stop wondering about the stories behind these children.

Loretta Lux uses photoshop to manipulate fantasy images of children exploring innocence. Lux's uses photoshop to manipulate fantasy images of children exploring different things. I want to do something that involved digital media.... I like this image it shows this character is shy and quiet. Her eyes are really blue and the photograph is clear.

This image you can tell that she's used photoshop, Lux's has made this girl look older than what she is, its looks fake and her hair doesn't look real neither does her face fall of makeup, but i like the affect and the colour to this picture. 

File Format

File Format

When an image is captured by a camera or a scanning device it has to be saved or memorized in a 'file format'. The information can only be read and understood if the software recognizes the format.

The dominate formats are:

•   JPEG (joint photographic experts group) JPG.

•   TIFF (Tagged Image Filme Format) TIF.

•   PSD (PhotoShop Document) PSD

•   RAW (Raw Unprocessed Information)

File > Save as - This opens up numerous options for the photoshop / P.C. user for simplicity it is advisable that you save your work as either a TIFF or PSD file because they support all of photoshops features. Note:  not all formats support layers.

Tiff this format is generally regarded as the industry standard because it is the most universally recognized format. Photoshop's variant of this format supports image layers,adjustments, layers, paths, clipping paths and ICC profiles. It's the most  popular format for photographers delivering RGB and CYMK files to clients. It's good practice to flatten files because only photoshop supports layered tiffs.

PSD

Photoshops native format supports everything photoshop can do including ICC profiles. Until version 6 it was the only format that supported layers. This format is only recognized by photoshop so it is not advisable to hand PSD files over to clients.

JPEG

The most commonly used file format. It as 'lossy' compression that transmits what it seems to be important content and discards colour information that it considers redundant. There is no option to save without compression but embedding ICC profile is an option. JPEG allows you to make a trade off between image file size and image quality. JPEG compression divides the images in squares in 8x8 pixels which are compressed independently. As you increase compression the squares become more visible.

100% quality JPEG. IS very hard to distinguish from the uncompressed original typically taken upto 6 times as much storage space.

80% quality JPEG still look good although it is 10 times smaller than the uncompressed original. Some detrition will occur however.

60% quality JPEG 20 times smaller than the uncompressed original sufficient for website use.

10% quality JPEG this will show serious image declaration with very visible 8x8 JPEG squares. It is unlikely that you will ever use this level of compression but it illustrates what JPEG os doing at higher quality levels.

Upon close inspection of a compressed JPEG blocks of 8x8 pixels can become evident because of this degrading it is advisable to avoid saving in this format for high quality images.

JPEG can use several layers of compression dramatically reducing the size of closed files compared to their open state. If an image is shot on JPEG avoid re-saving as a JPEG as it will further degrade the image; save as TIFF.