Re: Who does the seperations?
Re: Who does the seperations?
- Subject: Re: Who does the seperations?
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:26:17 +0000
On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:31, Andrew Rodney wrote:
On 1/4/07 12:02 AM, "Lee Blevins" wrote:
I see no reason why a photographer cannot become a good separator.
And if they are separating their own images, probably a lot better
than
anyone else. Who better to control the final rendering? Its hardly
rocket
science, we have the tools in both Photoshop and by the use of good
ICC
profiles. The later is the biggest problem.
Hardly - that's the kind of talk you hear from people selling rocket
science "solutions" rather than knowledge to solve age-old problems:
"If only the profiles were better. If only the monitors were better.
If only..."
The problem is that the "photographer" has no way of checking the
quality of the "final rendering" before committing it to press*. Their
monitor will not be optimised for CMYK - even if Photoshop were always
able to reproduce ink behaviour accurately. They have little knowledge
of CMYK colour values. And an RGB proof from an Epson desktop printer
isn't going to help them much either.
And what about halftone previews, sharpening and adjusting the UCR/GCR
to stop minor colour balance problems turning your dead neutral black
and white images sepia?
*There's contract proofing of course, but the client never wants to
pay - so you rarely get to do them until the job has already screwed
up at least once already.
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd
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