Ron Jones wrote: > Many thanks to Thomas Holm, Stephen Marsh, Jan Rossee and Philip Mobley for > their most helpful suggestions - much food for thought there!
Welcome. Snip > I suppose I was being lazy and looking for a quick fix. For example, I'm doing > a job at the moment - a prestigious 60 page A4 4-colour process brochure > containing over 250 images supplied by about 90 different organisations. 90% > of the images are rgb, in a variety of formats including small gifs and even > images embedded in PDFs! - a colour management nightmare! Unless handled correctly it is indeed. > Incidentally, is it > possible to extract an image embedded in a Word document and work on it in > Photoshop? It is, just click on it and copy, then paste it into a photoshop doc. Drag and drop may even be possible. > > Most of the suppliers haven't a clue about the difference between rgb and cmyk > otherwise they would have supplied me with cmyk files, right? Certainly not, not unless they have recieves a clear specification of WHAT cmyk you need, preferably in the shape of a profile. It's like asking people to translate a text to another language without specifying which language... > They certainly > haven't heard of out of gamut colours and may wonder why their images with all > those screaming oranges, purples and lime greens don't appear in print they > way they did on their computer screens. Not exactly news. > But with deadlines looming, I think > I'll revert to my quick and dirty Photoshop conversion practice. By the time > the job comes round again next year I hope, with the help of PRODIG members, > I'll be more colour management savvy! If you are interested Neil Barstow and myself are doing a colour management seminar in London on March 16+17th. Which can help you a good deal of the way. There will be an input centric and an output centric day. More info to follow in about a week (counting on the goodwil of the listmum/owner). Best Regards, Thomas Holm / Pixl Aps - Photographer, Educator, Colour Management Consultant & Seminar speaker - Remote Profiling Service (Output ICC profiles) - www.pixl.dk � Email: th[AT]pixl.dk -- =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
