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What Comes Next? The Fine Print!
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What Comes Next? The Fine Print!
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Evaluating the IWP (Image Worth Printing)– Working backwards: Evaluating the image and choosing the
paper before starting image processing.– Characteristics of substrates and print samples
Basic Review Color Management and ICC profilesImage Workflow Overview/Review
– RAW processing software + the power of selective adjustments
Soft Proofing / Hard Proofing: Output to printers and Hahnemühle papers
Critiquing & printing your files
What We’ll Cover
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• Does the IWP lend itself best to color or black and white?
• Which paper best lends its characteristics to those of your image?
• See samples in store or better yet –try out a sample pack.
Step1: Evaluating the IWP
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• Paper Surface– Smooth– Textured– Glossy/Matte
• Base Color / Content– Bright white– Off white– Cotton, Bamboo, etc
• GSM (grams per square meter)
– Compare density paper– Will the print go behind
glass?– Will the paper show in
the presentation without glass?
Step 2: Choose Your Substrate
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• Paper Test – Print CTI target with
icc profiles – Print RGB/Grayscale
step wedge• Let paper dry over night• Evaluate under daylight
balanced light source• Find optimum black and
white point before processing the IWP to match
Step 3: Evaluate the Substrate
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Step 0: Stabilize Your Work Environment
© Al Gore’s Office
• No matter how good your monitor or how well you have it calibrated and profiled, make sure your working environment is subdued neutral lighting that does not vary throughout the day. – Desktop neutral gray– Avoid having areas of bright
color within your field of vision. (furnishings, clothes)
– Block all windows
© Al Gore’s Office
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Step 0: Stabilize Your Work Environment
Step 0: Stabilize Your Work Environment
Buy a monitor hood or google how to make one yourself out of Black foam core or plastic.
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Alternatively. Give Your Knitter Friends a Project
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Step 0: Stabilize Your Work Environment, Monitor Calibration
• Computer monitors must be calibrated and profiled before they can be part of a professional workflow.
• Accurate calibration requires a hardware device, such as the xrite passport bundle.
• After profiling your monitor, you view a comparison between the digital file, displayed in Photoshop (or other professional imaging software), and the proof print, as viewed under 5000K/D50 lighting, to indicate whether your monitor profile is accurate.
• If your work requires inkjet prints for display, you may do better to evaluate the images under 6500K/D65 (warmer) lighting .
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• RAW FILES: ProPhoto RGB
• JPGs: Adobe RGB 1998
• For the WEB: sRGB
• Choose “ask when opening”.
Photoshop: Edit-Color Settings
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Step 4: Software Set-Up and Profiles,
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Adobe RGB 1998
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sRGB (for the web)
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Printer Profiles
Daylight Balanced Light Source
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• If your monitor is calibrated, you can get a general idea of how your image will render when printer via “soft proofing”.
• But no one really uses this
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Step 4: Software Set-Up & ProfilesPhotoshop: Soft Proofing
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Step 4: Software Set-Up & ProfilesLightroom: Soft Proofing
Step 4: Profiles Inkjet
• Download paper a profile from the web that is specific to your chosen paper and printer.
• IE: Canon / Hahnemühle .
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Step 5: Camera RAW Processors
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RAW + Photoshop
• Process the RAW file• Open in Photoshop
– Selective Adjustments– Creative Enhancements– Size– Sharpen
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• A powerful and precise control to manipulate and correct tone and color.– Tone and color
• Layer Adjustment• Combine with
layer masks for selective dodging and burning.
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Step 6:Selective Adjustments: Curves
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Step 6:Selective Adjustments: Curves
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Step 7: The Hard Proof
• Print a small version using proper icc output
• Let the print dry for 24hrs
• Live with it• Evaluate it• THEN commit to
a final size, creative interpretation, paper substrate
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• Learn to “see”– LOOK at a lot of printed
art in museums, galleries, etc.
• Evaluate prints under daylight balanced light.– Use a consistent viewing
standard
• Think like an Art Director– Get a Peer opinion
Step 7: The Hard Proof
Review: The Print Process
