Too Much Partying?
This is "Corwin" who's been known to leave the occasional comment on my posts, though it's been a while (what's up with that dude?) since he made that type of appearance. We were having a particularly quite Saturday morning at work a couple of weeks ago so to fill some of the time I spent a few minutes goofing around with the camera while he rather too ably posed for this shot.
It's been a while since my last post, which is too bad as I was on a bit of a roll there... in the in-between I've been busy with a number of things, like trying to learn a bit more about colour spaces and how they relate to screen vs print and researching (then buying) a new printer. I've also shot quite a bit, most of which won't appear here (probably); it's kept me busy with little visible result (so far) here, but it's all part of the process and hopefully will lead to better things in the future.
Oh, I should note, for those who not only read these ramblings but the comments as well, that I probably won't be putting together a book after all (as I'd suggested might happen in my comment on the previous post) as, it turns out, all the 'reasonably priced' options on-line that I've found for publishing said books apply some form of processing to images prior to printing, which just won't work for me - I decide how I want my images to look, not some computer program at a printing house. The idea isn't completely dead, but has definitely dropped far down the priority list.
2 comments:
All printing techniques involve re-processing the original images. Even if you don't do it, the printer itself will (it has to convert from pixel resolution to ink drop resolution, from RGB to CMYK, etc). And in fact the paper being printed onto itself acts as a "reprocessing", as the transfer function for getting ink down is not linear.
For very high quality output there's really no way around processing images twice - once for screen, once for print. Modern displays just don't have the resolution or color depth or dynamic range to match a professional print process.
What you can do is "proof" the images yourself by getting output out of a known printer (eg, like the one you have) and then letting the pre-press pros do the matching for you. There are a number of local high quality shops that can do this, which is good, because it's not something that lends itself to the "over the 'net" paradigm.
Yeah, I know that printing the image will result in what you refer to as "re-processing", what I'd refer to as 'processing for print'. That's not what I was referring to however. What I meant was that most on-line publishers will apply additional post-processing (levels, saturation, brightness/contrast, sharpening, etc.) to the images to achieve what they believe to be the best-looking image; I don't need or want this level of interference with my images.
You're right that it's possible to proof the images prior to final printing if you deal in-person with a local shop, but this would be prohibitively expensive for a one-off printing of a 50-page book (or however many pages it might be). Hence the shelving of this idea for the time being as I was hoping for a more economical solution.
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