Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and other suggestions)
Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and other suggestions)
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations? (Re: Profile Names and other suggestions)
- From: Klaus Karcher <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:41:30 +0100
Rich Apollo wrote:
If the creatives of the world would simply tag everything, then they
wouldn't have to worry about what CMYK color space I'm using. I'll take
care of it - really.
We get PSD's in CMYK from advertising agencies day after day. *If* or
*how* they are tagged often doesn't make much difference, I might as
well throw the dice to choose a profile. They are pieced together of a
bunch of images in all sorts of quality, resolution and color spaces.
Sometimes the agency adds this brunch of ingredients and sometimes it
contains parts I already dealt with. This gives me at least a chance to
restore the original, but I coevally could break out in tears when I see
what they already have demolished. Sometimes they add a hard copy
(uncalibrated of course) to give me an idea of they *wanted* to create
or already showcased their customer.
Even if they accidentally met the right profile, the file is mostly
unusable because they mixed up the black generation with hindsight or
they applied "color corrections" to achieve the intended appearance on
their *uncalibrated* printer. ("Adjustment Layer? -- Why? One can simply
press Apple-M!")
When they get the account for my work, they complain "What the hell
caused these costs! Everything was CMYK already and looked delightful on
our print" ... an tomorrow they need the same image it for a different
printing condition ...
If I add the time *they* spent in Photoshop to *mine*, I'm quite sure it
would have been cheaper to do it the "old fashioned way" all in all.
I shouldn't moan about it: Finally it's a way to earn a crust, but not
exactly a pleasant one. I've also seen photographers and agencies doing
an excellent job, even in CMYK. Maybe this happens rarely to me because
they simply seldom need us...
I think Bob Marchant already expressed the crucial point:
Knowledge is the key, not the profession.
Klaus
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