Re: Need for basics
Re: Need for basics
- Subject: Re: Need for basics
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 09:06:57 EDT
In a message dated 5/6/01 12:13:23 PM, email@hidden writes:
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This is my typical workflow: open or create an image in fotoshop, edit
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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?
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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?
What you have is a basic Photoshop 4 workflow from several years ago. You
should look into hardware calibrating your monitor, selecting a Photoshop RGB
workingspace (preferably AdobeRGB), getting an ICC profile for your press (or
using one of the Euro profiles that come with Photoshop 6) and then being
able to soft proof and inkjet proof your images, if not your entire
documents, from Photoshop 6.
Anything beyond that will probably require a proofing RIP and other expensive
components. The software and hardware for the workflow described above is
only a few hundred US dollars; assuming you already have a current version of
Photoshop...
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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