on 13/12/2002 14:28, philip sheppard wrote: > 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. 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. > > Our service hopes to eradicate this. Local photographers can email the > images to us, then we can can get the proofs back ASAP. > > Would this service be useful to professional photographers such as > yourselves?
Dear Philip In short...no. How would you know how the final picture was to be output...if via press...what type?...what CMYK profile would be required?...how are the separations prepared?... If it's a straight RGB output for an aim print or suchlike, then I and many others do that all ourselves anyway. Indeed, if we knew the answers to the questions posed above (sometimes we do, sometimes we don't), we could also provide our own CMYK proofs too. The end product is only different from what was expected if there are gaps in knowledge and understanding (mechanical failures aside!). I think that most photographers involved in digital are taking control of as much of the process as is reasonably possible in order that final results are pleasing to all regards Nick Dunmur -- Nick Dunmur�Photographer =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
