On 27/8/04 6:47 PM, Nick Dunmur wrote
> The one thing that does stand out though, is how few designers/agencies
> understand what USM is for and how to use it, and these are the people who
> have been sending our scanned transparencies off to print for years!
> It's all a bit scary! <g>
I think it is fair to expect they know crap about these issues with digital
files. Color Conversions and Sharpenning should be out of their range of
action.
This is why I have chosen and still use the two step sharpening method, and
deliver the files with the first step or Pre-sharpening, ( if I deliver
RGB), which would account to a recovery of the softness introduced during
capture( to counter the effects of the High Pass/ IR filter in front of the
chip), as has been reported in many reviews ( DP Review, Luminous landscape,
etc), and inform the Prepress guys in the CD's I deliver, that it is up to
them to run a second sharpness round after conversion, (if necesary, but
criteria is up to them).
I know some of my files have gone untouched ( specially in rush
time/emergency printing) and I am glad to have run the first step
pre-sharpenning.
I never discuss this with designers. I don't even tell them there is a
pre-sharp already applied.
Jorge Parra Photography
APA / EP
http://JorgeParra.com/
http://TheStylePortfolios.com/
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