My best advice to you, then, is to - Calibrate/Profile your monitor - Set up Photoshop's color settings properly with ProPhotoRGB or AdobeRGB working colorspace. - RAW convert to ProPhoto RGB or Adobe RGB, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do your editing in that calibrated environment - Contact your printing house and ask them for the specifics of what they need for best printing fidelity to your image processing system. - Create and 'save as' a print master for proofing with conversions to those settings.
I do this with the local color lab when I need prints larger than what I can make at home or for when I need volume printing done. For their large print setup, they supplied me with a specific CMYK profile and instructions how to convert my ProPhoto RGB, [EMAIL PROTECTED] image file to their needs as well as how to soft proof the output. A test print of one such conversion showed that my system calibration and workflow met with their process needs, so all further work has been performed maintaining very high fidelity to what I see on my screen. Godfrey On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Markus Maurer wrote: > Hi Godfrey > I found most of what you write at > http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml too. > I'm n o t talking about my own printing, I send photos to the labs for > enlargements at 30x45cm and 50x75cm and the calendar will be > printed at a > printing house. > > My scenario will be that I take the photos for the calendar and > have to > prepare them for third party printing in a printing house outside > of my > control > beside a "good for print proof". I don't know yet if I have to make a > calendar myself in InDesign or similar or just have to deliver the > photographs. > I think I have to convert photos to CMYK for the printing house and > Photoshop whould show me an unprintable area warning to have at > least some > kind > of control in advance.. > > thanks and greetings > Markus > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
