workflow for photographers
workflow for photographers
- Subject: workflow for photographers
- From: Matthew Wilson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:19:41 -0500 (EST)
Thanks, for the links Andrew!
When should I convert? It makes sense to be viewing the image in the
space it is going to be printed out in, doesn't it?
I know I've had this conversation before? with myself and others.... I
believe it was whether to work in CMYK or RGB.
I can understand wanting to keep the color model as large as possible
in order to keep things as flexible as possible(You don't always know
what the output device will be.).
If you know from the beginning that you will be outputting to an Epson
2200
does it make sense to set your working space to the paper profile for
the 2200?
Also, I want to make sure of the terminology. "Conversions" can only
be done by changing the working space setup in Color settings and then
opening up the image and attaching the workspace profile to the image,
and the Convert to Profile dialog box and also I guess when you go to
Print Preview and assign the print profile.
Assign Profile and soft proofing don't actually, as you put it, "change
the numbers", just the Preview. Do I have that right?
It seems like things are really close to the day when someone states
that digi-photo is bunk because they can't get the print to look like
the screen that I can tell them and then show them how things have to
be set-up on the computer in order to say to them that, "Excuse me sir,
but your view on digital printing is bunk!
I think that this is the biggest hurdle that my students have to get
over. That with all the hard work that they do on their images that
the print is going to come out lookig the way that does on the screen.
Digital Photo teacher
School of Visual Arts
Matt Wilson
>
> When soft proofing the image for a specific printer the soft proof
will show
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> the limitations of the printer space. If the printer space clips all
of my
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> bright reds and greens then there is really nothing that can be done.
Is this
>
> correct?
>
>
Yup. That's the sad news.
>
>
> I guess I could also choose another rendering intent to see if it does
a
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> better job of mapping the out of gamut colors to something a bit more
>
> pleasing, but that's about it isn't it?
>
>
Yes. This is what's nice about the Convert to Profile command (or just
make
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3 soft proofs for each output profile. One for Perceptual, one for
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Saturation and one for Relative Colorimetric which I'll bet you use most
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often). Then when you convert, pick the intent. I would think you'd
want to
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settle on an intent in your soft proof BEFORE you do the output specific
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editing.
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> Is there any point to color correcting any image without soft proofing
to an
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> output space?
>
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Only if you like surprises!
>
>
Andrew Rodney
>
http://www.imagingrevue.com/
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