Boris Liberman wrote: >1. How do you manage sharpness??? Any specific sharpening that you apply >in your post processing program such as LightRoom?
I do all my sharpening in Photoshop after exporting from Lightroom (and after re-sizing the image to the pixel dimensions specified in the Blurb template - see answer to question 3). Set the image output resolution to 300 ppi, size to the appropriate pixel dimensions and then sharpen as you would for an inkjet print of that size. >2. How do you make sure the colors are right? Presently my monitor is >ICC profiled with Spyder. Is it enough to simply export my images in >sRGB with this profile? Is there a profile published by Blurb that I'd >need to use? Blurb's production system isn't color managed, so they recommend you put all your images into sRGB color space (if their system was color managed it wouldn't matter what color space you used as long as you embedded the profile). They recommend that you *don't* embed the color profile in the images though I can't for the life of me imagine why. Perhaps it's just to save file size and reduce upload time. >3. What about picture size? Does it absolutely have to be the size >indicated by the program for specific book size and layout? Or is it ok >to have bigger pictures? It doesn't *have* to be the size specified in the layout, but if it isn't you lose control over what re-sizing algorithm is being used (bicubic, bicubic smoother, etc...) and how well your sharpening works (because the Blurb software will re-size after your sharpening is applied). -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
