Jorge Thank you. That's sound advice. However, I will delivering to the designer and not the pre press. The designers do the conversion to CMYK and send to press
Please can you advise either the amount of "Pre-sharpening" you apply John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jorge Parra" > > 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 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
