Re: Legacy Proofing
Re: Legacy Proofing
- Subject: Re: Legacy Proofing
- From: email@hidden (Lee Blevins)
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:58:52 -0500
> I run a high-end retouching studio in NY, highly color-managed, running Fuji
> FinalProofs as contract proofs which get sent to pubs and printers (along
> with data) for both ad and editorial work.
>
> We are in the process of retooling our portfolio. This portfolio is made up
> of images gleaned from many phases of our history, some of which were
> created before we were ever profiling our files, editing our data in RGB, or
> even using the FinalProof. (Meaning, they were retouched as untagged CMYK
> and proofed as traditional, hand registered MatchPrints.)
>
> Our goal is to take the existing files which created those MatchPrints, and
> convert them so that we can proof them using our present setup for the
> FinalProof, AND have them match exactly to those MatchPrints. Not only are
> we dealing with the differing data and machinery, but we are also using a
> brighter, cooler proofing stock than we did previously.
>
> We have a few ideas about how to go about doing all of this (other than
> converting and color correcting each file individually), but were hoping
> that the list might have some suggestions as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
> GBDash
> Nucleus Imaging, NYC
>
So even though they are not tagged, the CMYK files are in the color
space of the proofing system you last saw them in.
It's a conceptual thing. How were they seen? The CMYK profile for them
would be made from that color system.
The perfect solution would be to go back in time and profile that
proofing sytem. But thank god, somebody somewhere has a profile from
that.
I have a CMYK Matchprint profile.
Not sure if it matches the system you used. Matchprint operators were an
odd bunch when it came to reading the instructions for calbrating and
maintaining it as a system.
But whatever it was proofed on you can convert that image via CMYK to
CMYK color management and end up with a file that looks like the
original in your new colorspace.
I've done this many times. There are those odd images that you just end
up hand tweeking.
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