Final google search for today (I've got to get some "real" work done!), again from Wikipedia: Someone named Paul Haeberli invented the .RGB file extension along with some others and that .RGB has "3 color channels." Again, this means nothing to me, other than the files contain the 3 primary colors which I'm assuming any color files have to contain. I haven't found any information at all from Canon as to why this camera has been set up to produce files with this extension. I'm also now assuming .RGB contains more information than .JPG since it can also be "decoded" into .TIFF.
Paul Haeberli came up with another extension: .RGBa which includes "3 color extensions plus alpha" which means even less to me.
Then this site:
http://www.imagemagick.org/scr... appears to have more information, but again, I'm not sure what that information is. It refers to an "RGB colorspace" which can be linear or (?). This site claims that it is very important to pay attention to your "colorspace." Does anyone here know why? Or what an "RGB colorspace" linear or otherwise might be?
And what the difference between a photographic image or a "raster" image might be? (cf:
http://www.frontlineprinting.c...) These folks always search for RGB images (sounds like a "Law & Order" situation) in order to turn them into CMYK files which are absolutely the only files they consider to be fit for printing. Again, does anyone here know why? I've run into CMYK files, but have no idea what they are. Thankfully my camera doesn't make them... Our printer will only use .TIFF files...
That's it for today! Whew!
