Taking the Tazmanian Oath!

Our primary goal in scanning is to faithfully reproduce high-quality images,…and then in some cases attempt to improve and/or edit the characteristics of…the original images.…However, before we begin the capturing, editing, and improving imaging…processes, we must address the fundamental issue and take an oath.…Just like the Hippocratic Oath and medicine, our prime directive in scanning is…to first do no harm.…Well we tend to view the scanning and image editing process as an…image enhancing process.…It is also indeed true that many of the tools' processes and procedures, we use…doing the image capture editing and output, can actually degrade the quality of…our images and in many cases significantly so.…

Processes such as changing the dimensional and linear resolution of our images,…repeatedly resaving our images in different file formats and especially…compressed formats like JPEG, applying improper tone compression, too much…sharpening and converting our images through multiple color spaces can…