I've printed off the cool white tiger photo A3 on Matte 1440x1440 & it looks excellent. I was going to wait for A3 Matte Archival but I wanted it printed & framed for my redecorated bedroom.

As great as your photo is, I've edited it in Photoshop for poster print; such as giving the foreground (brickwork) better lighting & colouring it brown, reducing the amount of light reflecting from the tigers fur to give it better detail plus bringing out the grass for a bit of colour with a touch of Hue adjustment.

If you want to print the same one off too, I've saved it on maximum JPEG quality @7.42MB (try again later if it says unavailable) >> (link)

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it looks like it is in false colour to me... I'll have to get it up on the big screen to see it properly.

Hmmm, you just gave me another idea for my study.

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The way my printer/photoshop is set up looks natural to me once printed out, as the first one was too dark for my setup. The wall section does look too colourful at first, but I was referencing a photo from Spain at 40*C where it matches this colour (limestone effect) & I will put it next to that on my wall. I also understand the lesson in editing where less is more but again, it suits it on my setup. I appreciate the detail in photos & looking back at your great untouched photo in direct comparison my poster edit, it certainly suits the changes for a poster.



I know I would be picky too if someone edited a treasured photo (just like any director doesn't want to drop his/her favourite scene), but most posters are bold, vivid and full of detail, so yes I took an artistic license with your photo. Try printing it out yourself (at least A4) & see what your second impressions are.

Btw, what are your general photo ideas for your study?

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I hadn't compared the images side by side, the impression i got was false colour just by looking at the edited version. Probably does print a lot better than it looked on screen at the time. It was 10deg C when I was out there, seems they didn't know that Florida should be warm and sunny.

Ii thinking get a 40" !080p TV to put on the wall behind me so I can use it to gauge what the picture will look like printed big. My desk layout at the moment doesn't lend itself to picture editing, need to think about it a bit harder and sort out my image editing station, maybe stick the 8800GT in it.

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I remember going to a zoo a while back that had white tigers, but they had massive metal fencing. I tried the old focusing trick to remove the fencing but it was double-layered. Its great when you get these type of shots without anything in the way.

If I was to get a screen for proofing lots of photo for editing, I would go for a 24" screen with a colour gamut of at least 110% to avoid colour banding, etc, this can really bring your photos to life. You don't need a 40" screen to check the photo quality as you'll never see all the original pixels, all your doing is enlarging the pixels with no gain in quality. Even 30" (2560x1600) is more than adequate for publishing any prints but that's silly money.

As an example for something half the price of the 30"; The Dell U2410 is factory colour-calibrated if you don't have your own calibration tools (I use the Pantone Huey PRO on my decent MW221u), but do read reviews on various sites as some monitors, including some Dell's, have questionable colour casting which is hard to sort out. I always use the sRGB/AdobeRGB colour space so look for a screen with this being featured. I now prefer using Ati for better picture quality, it may be marginal in my mind, but I always get an exact match (ok, maybe 99% or thereabouts) from on-screen once printed.

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