Non-Destructive Image Editing 2

Part II – The Rendering Engine

What is a Rendering Engine ?

               

The color information in the raw file needs to be sent through a rendering engine to be

turned into standard RGB color. 

 What three things determine the final colour of an image pixel ?

 original image data

settings applied by user             

rendering engines math formulas

What are the three main components of a RAW file ?

jpeg preview

metadata

mosaiced RAW image

Can PIE software be used only on Raw files ?             

       No. 

PIE software is now being used on source images that come in to the

program as fully processed RGB images, such as JPEGs or TIFFs.

What is a Live Rendering ?

       A temporary preview, before it becomes permeant 

Where can the Rendering Metadata be stored ?

XMP data

sidecar file

 database

Give two examples of a Fixed Rendering

derivatives 

prints

 Is a Preview a Live or a Fixed Rendering of the image ?

They are Fixed.

Where can Previews be stored ?

RAW files

 data base

 file browser

Why do File Browsers and Cataloguing software create Previews ?


To speed up the display