RE: Workflow from digital RGB photos to prepress...
RE: Workflow from digital RGB photos to prepress...
- Subject: RE: Workflow from digital RGB photos to prepress...
- From: "Walter Zacharias" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:21:55 -0500
- Thread-topic: Workflow from digital RGB photos to prepress...
"what do you
guys suggest or how do you manage your workflow at this point: trust the prepress to do a correct conversion
and to reach the closest possible gamut to my RGB image (they work in 8 bit
mode) or convert myself
to CMYK into 16 bits and then color correct the image in CMYK mode and let
myself have control over this process, ..."
A combination of the
above.
Ask your printer for
their press profile. (Yes there are good standards out there but custom profiles
will take into account the printer's actual press condition including print
specifics like total ink limit and amount of GCR in the
separation.)
Use "View Proof Color"
in Photoshop. This will allow you to see the CMYK image while still editing in
RGB.
Edit all your images
and embed the profile.
Talk to your printer
and discuss the conversion method if you have
concerns.
Ask for a few proofs
to verify your expectations.
After a project or two
with the printer, your confidence will be such that you no longer need
proofs.
Walter Zacharias
Colour Management
Coordinator
Friesens Corporation
Prepress,
Press, Bindery, Fulfillment under one roof.
Ecc 12:12
"Of making many books there is no end."
So here I am all geared up and excited with my new Canon Eos 1 DS Mark II,
my new G5 dual processor, my eizo CG21, my books on camera raw and color
management.
Studied a lot and done everything just by the books, shot all my new
editorial in raw, converted it to prophoto 16 bit,
done a lot of retouching and manipulation on my calibrated Eizo, looked
carefully at all my histograms and pushed my colors to the limits....and loved
them...
but here are my worries...
If I do some quick conversions to CMYK trying different set up everything
becomes very dull of course
(I am aware of the differences between the two gamuts, etc and therefore
not surprised)...
but the point is:
what do you guys suggest or how do you manage your workflow at this point:
trust the prepress to do a correct conversion and to reach the closest
possible gamut to my RGB image (they work in 8 bit mode)
or convert myself to CMYK into 16 bits and then color correct the image in
CMYK mode and let myself have control over this process, with all its headaches
and possibilities?
thanks
carlo
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