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: Marci Fermier <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:49:22 -0500
As someone who has to wrangle hundreds of customer-supplied images
daily/weekly, which will eventually be sent off to one of several different
print vendors (and therefore printed under differing conditions) -- my
suggestion is to make the conversion to CMYK yourself.
That way you can "fix" any color shifting in advance, resulting in a CMYK
image you are happy with.
Of course, it all depends on what you are actually doing with these images
(i.e. where you are sending them, how they are being printed, etc). If you
work exclusively with one vendor, and they know what to expect, then perhaps
you can trust them to convert it for you.
But I personally think you are better off doing it yourself.
Just my two cents.
on 4/19/05 12:06 PM, email@hidden at
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> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:52:00 +0200
> From: Carlo Lavatori <email@hidden>
> Subject: Workflow from digital RGB photos to prepress...
> To: ColorSync <email@hidden>
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> 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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> www.carlolavatori.com
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