Re: Need for basics
Re: Need for basics
- Subject: Re: Need for basics
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 19:00:06 +0200
on 6/05/01 19:12, email@hidden at
email@hidden wrote:
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This is my typical workflow: open or create an image in fotoshop, edit it,
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convert into CMYK mode, save it, import into a layout in Illustrator or
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Xpress, send the file to a service bureau for making the films. In
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Photoshop, the color space is my monitor profile, the CMYK profile is a
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generic eurostandard CMYK. Do I have to embed the profile into my files? Is
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better set as output profile the eurostandard one, the proofing system
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profile or the photoplotter profile?
Ciao Claudio;
You didn't say which type of images you're doing . If you are using your
monitor for a working space it limits the quality of your conversions into
CMYK. Try a bigger space that conserves most of the CMYK gamut such as Adobe
98 or if you're timid, Colormatch. In your Colorsync control panel verify
your monitor profile is selected. Photoshop uses this as it's screen
preview. The working space has been separated since PS 5 to allow you to use
an independent rgb working space. If you have Photoshop 6 use the
Eurostandard V2 on colorimetric intent for coated papers. Be careful of the
total ink though if it's going out to say Mondadori or Rizzoli as their max
spec for rotogravure is 300% not exceeding 320% in small areas.
You don't need to embed the profiles if they are going out as the majority
don't know what to do with profiles anyway. Certainly if the file would be
proofed by a printer ICC savvy then it would be good to embed. Since your
question is do I have to , I'll say no. Personally I always embed but there
is a risk that very sloppy people opening files might convert them by
ignorance of the colour settings in Photoshop or elsewhere.
Granted it's hard starting in ICC Colour Management when the output goes to
many different printers. There is a great production Photoshop book by Bruce
Fraser/David Blatner Peachpit Press>Real World Photoshop. You could get it
from Amazon.com. There is no book like it for real reliable info on how to
get this stuff in order.
Hope this helps.
Neil Snape
email@hidden