Philip Sheppard wrote:- >We have an excellent Repro department with the best resources and highly >experienced workers. It is, however, underused and we are looking for ways >to utilise this. One idea is to offer a fast proofing service to digital >photographers. Through our experience photographers find that the end >product is often different from what they expected, because the image in a >digital camera is just an idea of what will appear.
Err ..... maybe some photographers are surprised.However.... Sorry to appear negative so far , but a shedload of us digital smudgers are softproofing and hardproofing as a regular part of our existing workflow (A properly set up high end system does not give 'just an idea' of what will appear) . >Different colours/tones >then appear on the final photo. This can cause problems with the customers >and the photographer then has to reshoot days or weeks later. Reshooting would be an extreme scenario given the amount of information in a good raw camera file. > >Our service hopes to eradicate this. Local photographers can email the >images to us, then we can can get the proofs back ASAP. Do you use an ICC colour managed workflow ? What conversion method do you use for CMYK seperations or RGB conversions for your proofing device ? As to the former ,what is the definition or specification of the CMYK space that you are proofing to ? And what are you using as a proofing device ? > >Would this service be useful to professional photographers such as >yourselves? If you can answer the above , then we could give you a better idea of how useful this service will be. Without this information it's kind of difficult to say. Regards, Bob Marchant. Colour Therapy =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
