Listmembers I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a couple of pointers on this. (PS7, Windows XP)
As my business is supplying RGB files to agencies I know nothing of CMYK which has been OK up till about 6 hours ago. However, today I have been asked to supply an art gallery with prints. I have found a printer who does giclee prints. (I remember a whole load of prodig posts on giclee a while ago but unfortunately it was before the archive was set up) I only seem to get to speak to someone (the owner!) who doesn't seem to be able to tell me much except "provide CMYK files". I have "converted" the RGB's to CMYK in PS7. They lose a lot of the vivid colours straight off. Pouring over Martin Evening's book I have learned about Relative Colorimetric and Perceptual, with and without black point compensation. Generally the images look better with RC + black point. So now to the Colour Settings. Under Colour Spaces > CMYK I don't know if I should tick Euroscale uncoated v2 or coated V2 (or any of the others)? I am going to have them do three small A5 tests on Somerset Bright White Watercolour, Cotton Canvas and Matt Paper. I asked him what ppi I should supply. He said "it depends". So I volunteered helpfully 300? He said that's a good average! So I presume I should go for that? I haven't had any prints done before so don't know how much sharpening should be done. I'll be doing 21inch x 7inch landscape panoramics. Martin Evening's book says that often it's not what it looks like on the screen but experience that counts on this. Er, my experience is nil, I know "it depends" but I'd sure like a ball park figure to start me off. I have read USM 200/ 1.5/ 0 on smaller images for the web but what about large prints? I realise that converting to CMYK is not simply a matter of ticking these various menu pull downs but it's all I have time for right now, so any advice anyone could put forward; to at least give these tests a fighting chance would be very useful indeed. TIA Paul (Wirral UK) =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
