InDesign Grayscale's
InDesign Grayscale's
- Subject: InDesign Grayscale's
- From: David Harradine <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:11:41 +1000
Well after much stress, frustration and dead ends, I think I've
discovered a way to colour manage grayscale documents from Photoshop
through InDesign to PDF.
In Photoshop work only in Gamma 2.2 as your gray space, as this seems
to be what InDesign assigns to all placed grayscale files. Once the
layout is complete generate the PDF and then in Acrobat convert it to
your Gray profile of choice, such as 20% dot gain. Can anyone see a
problem with this ? Or a better solution ?
Also on the topic of grayscale or black and white in general, Dan
Margulis recently came up with an ingenious method of modifying your
black generation in an un-editable profile like US Web Coated SWOP
v2. Basically you duplicate the SWOP file and re-convert it to a
heavy black via custom CMYK, then paste the custom file back on top
of the SWOP file and blend with Luminosity. A little curve work is
required to regain the original appearance of the image, but not
much, and once flattened you clearly have heavy K with light CMY
tagged as SWOP.
This seems to be a great technique for ensuring neutrality in 4
colour monos when printing to SWOP, and you easily stay under the
total ink limits with the light CMY.
Can anyone see a problem with this technique that I'm naively
overlooking ?
The only potential down side I can see with both above techniques is
the extra conversion, but the payoffs seem to be more then worth it ?
Thanks,
David Harradine
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