Micro-Cosmos - 1/3 Otto Rogge Photography

Micro-Cosmos data sheet. These thumbnails show all images on this CD-ROM. By clicking on any image the order information is displayed. The CD-ROM is produced to ISO 9660 standard and contains no viewing software. Each CD-ROM is packed with a thumbnail sheet with associated filenames which is important to locate the files on the CD-ROM. All files are prepared in RGB 24 bit color depth. The base folder includes a test image: TESTOTTO.JPG and a README file in .doc and .txt formats. The README file explains the use of the test image if needed. The test image is designed for 24 bit displays only and covers shadow, mid-tone and highlight detail which all should be visible on a balanced monitor and program gamma. With the use of various Color Management Systems around the globe highlight and shadow detail can be destroyed of the original file. Micro-Cosmos - MI-xxxx This CD-ROM contains 110 images in square format in 11 folders with 10 images each. The close-up textures are of unusual and day to day objects, most of them not exceeding 1 square inch in actual size. All images are prepared from medium format roll-film for high quality. Folders: Cacti - a collection of cactus structures. Flowers a selection of flowers highly magnified. Leaves - a variety of leaf structures. Minerals - close-ups of various minerals and gemstones. Opal - a variety of opal colors and textures from Australian opal. Plants - unusual plants and seedlings. Seeds - just seeds and grain Shells - a collection of objects from the beach in extreme close-up. Skins - a collection of skins from man to animal xsection - a collection cross-sections of vegetables and fuit revealing the inner textures. The 1200line folder contains all images (with a dimension of 1200x1200 pixel, 96 DPI) in low-resolution of approximately 4.2 Mb in file size. These files can be used for web designs and are also much faster to resize. The 3600line folder contains the high resolution images with a dimension of 3600x3600 pixel in JEPEG format ( uncompressed file size: 37 Mb RGB, 300 DPI) and are compressed at YUV 4:4:4 at 1 to 4%. This low compression ratio does not show any compression artifacts and image degradation. However, the file size can be as large as 11 Mb on the CD-ROM.