A freelancer I know was asked by his client "How long dod it take you to do that?" He told the guy "It took me 20 years to do that." Providing quality work requires time, equipment and training. Not t

I am getting a BestColor NT rip and Canon BJC8500 to use as a digital pre-film proofer. the intent is to have a pre-film proof that looks as close to the resulting Color Key or MatchPrint as reasonabl

Greetings list, I guess this is a 'scanning work flow' question...but I will try to keep my actual questions 'technical'. In a 'perfect world', every layout contains 'pos only' or 'FPO' images. When t

Hello list members, I have a scanning problem which I hope you can help me with... Firstly, I have a suspicion that this could be a SCSI related issue - but this is the only PC that we have with a SCS

I have a scanning problem which I hope you can help me with... Where is your scanner located? What other pieces of equipment are close to the scanner? When I was researching my sprintscan I learned th

Ran into something a bit disconcerting in PS6 recently. Settings: RGB: Adobe98 CMYK: custom "PressCMYK" ICC profile that I created using ProfileMaker 3.1. CMM: Heidelberg or Adobe. Select the "default

Folks, I received the following comments privately from the president of Megavision, a major supplier of high-end digital cameras. Because I thought it would be of interest, after replying I asked per

This isn't really a color theory question, but I figured with all the Photoshop professionals on this list, I'll get a quicker, better answer than anywhere else. When using the '['/']' keyboard shortc

I will soon be getting a proofing system of a BJC8500 and BestColor NT rip. I'd appreciate suggestions on the best papers and inks to use in this for simulating Matchprint. Mac Townsend, Adcom Graphic

Kim writes, . . if it is, please accept my apologies. However, if it is not . . .>> No, it isn't off topic, in fact it illustrates very well a point about colorspace conversions that comes up over and

I have a profile that prints a grayscale image on my Epson 1270 without crossovers, but the color is greenish. I'd like to add a profile specific adjustment layer to the image prior to printing. What

Hi, I have a bunch of questions about using a Epson 9000 with RIP in a RGB workflow. I checked through the archives but couldn't find any answers to this, so I hope that it is appropriate to ask them.

Stephen writes, quality be better by simply reducing the % of the layout size of the image file, or by resampling to the correct size and resolution, followed by sharpening? For example, a 90-25% redu

Todd writes, crossovers, but the color is greenish. I'd like to add a profile specific adjustment layer to the image prior to printing. What is the best way to alter the color uniformly across the ton

Thank you for your considered responses Garry and Ron, will try them out. Stephen.

Hope this isn't too off topic but I don't subscribe to any other lists of experts in the industry. I just read an article in Inside Photoshop about how Photoshop 6 does not allow you to import clippin

Dave wrote.... I'm not sure what the difference is in doing that verse a simple "Invert" from neg to pos, but would like to know if anybody has found merit in this approach. Here is the "Quick & Dirty

Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks Dan, what you said makes sense and confirms my experience...just looking for further insight from those more 'clued in' than me. I

I need some advice. I have been trying everything to master the creation of shadows in the CMYK environment. Through reading an trial and error I have arrived at the following. Create shadows on the b

Oops, slips, sorry. I understand the original posting of this appeared anonymous to the group, which is a no-no. I wrote this in yahoogroups reply mode and didn't realize that information wouldn't be