greyscale image ----> CMYK need subtle color tint.
greyscale image ----> CMYK need subtle color tint.
- Subject: greyscale image ----> CMYK need subtle color tint.
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:12:00
- Organization: Digital Department - The Image Works
i need some serious help. This seemed something that should be relatively
simple to me, but alas....no.
I have a greyscale image. simple enough. ok, now, we want the image
to print a bit cool, but it is going to be gang run (ugh) with other color
jobs so i need to prepare it as CMYK and make it a little bluish.
(cyanish....?
)
problem number one: Modern Postcard (ugh, again, I know, but it's not
up to me) has told me to use the generic CMKY profile...fine, when I go
from greyscale to CMKY my image gets WAY to dense, ok, so I go into curves
and I pull out the detail, that I can handle, but I wanted some suggestions
if you got 'em.
problem number two: here is where its been getting a little hairy. no
matter what I do to try to get that image to be cool, i see cool on screen
in photoshop and i print blueish yellow (but not green, is that possible?).
but, when i view the layout in Pagemaker (double UGH, some clients.......)
it is bright blue!!!! this is a nightmare. I primarily work in situations
where color does not need to be perfect...i need to be able to see good
detail and be in the ballpark of the right color, but I cant even get
this close to what i want, and even worse, I dont know what is right,
photoshop, my print, pagemaker, or none of the above.
I have recently calibrated my monitor with photocal/spyder....although
my monitor is pushing 3 years and i think that even with the photocal
its still not quite on. (ive been trying to work by the numbers too)
but i opened the tif file on a relatively new, recently calibrated monitor
(optical/spyder) and it looks just right. BUT, i need to send a print
to MP with the disk, and I can not open pagemaker documents on this computer,
which isnt hooked up to a great printer anyway.
help?
Elyse
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