Re: Dot gain settings in Photoshop
Re: Dot gain settings in Photoshop
- Subject: Re: Dot gain settings in Photoshop
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 11:24:29 +0100
on 1/11/2001 10:50, Martin [apple account] at email@hidden wrote:
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Usually we separate our images using our scanner profiles, or customised
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versions of the supplied PS Euroscale profiles (higher gain, lighter black
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etc).
Are you using Euroscale V2? The older versions were not impressive, but the
new ones simulate very well the "standard idealised European sheet fed
press". If you want to make your own profiles from measured data you can
acquire the full press IT8/7.3 at the Fogra site. Steve Upton probably has
graciously offered profiles generated from this at chromix.com.
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All of the supplied Photoshop profiles have dot gain settings that set the
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cyan about 4 points higher than the MYK settings.
I have always found this strange as in the real world dot gain values are as
you stated in the original post.
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Dan Margulis recently posted that this too-high cyan value was a *last
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minute kludge* implemented by Thomas Knoll because Photoshop separations
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always appeared to be too cool.
Dan has a lot of press experience. However the Adobe teams try to implement
things that work and work well for everyone. They can't possibly reason or
describe every choice they make to their users but rest assured they do a
tremendous amount of research into these decisions even if going unseen by
us.
Perhaps they thought to make a slightly cooler separation as in Profile
Maker's paper white axis , trying to compensate for the white brought into
the upper end of the grey scale.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape