October 22, 2009 – 7:01 pm
No opinions or hearsay just some guidelines:
• Gamma — 1.8 to 2.2 (or L*).
• White point — 5000K to 6500K.
• Brightness levels — 80cd/m2 to 140 cd/m2
“One additional, but little known fact is that many printers routinely re-separate CMYK files to better match their press conditions, or even to save ink by trimming total ink [...]
October 1, 2009 – 12:45 am
So lately Ive been trying to polish my color management/prepress understanding, this time from the printers perspective of ink on paper as opposed to RGB models, monitors or LAB color.
I thought you might find some of this interesting from the 2007 SWOP guidelines.
http://www.swop.org/specification/SWOP2007Specserrata.pdf
It mentions in the report that gray fade-away tones are best if reproduced [...]
September 22, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Well, I thought it was about time to post some scientific ideas regarding monitor calibration, specifically luminance. Luminance for monitors is measured in cd/m^2 in your monitor calibration software. I usually use the value 120 cd/m^2 when calibrating Apple Cinema displays. I’ll get into why I use this number later but first some background and [...]
August 21, 2009 – 6:22 am
I came across this recently on Tom Sadowski’s weblog, its pretty amazing. SeaDragon is a technology that allows a image to be broken down into separate little packet so that only the requested infomation is actually downloaded. It allows smooth zooming of extremely large documents. It also makes for a extremely impressive presentation!
I thought it [...]
August 20, 2009 – 7:32 pm
Hello! from the trenches of Tech world… So this next tibit Im going to share with you could be quite useful on your next job. Have you ever arrived on a job to find that C1 Pro 4 has been customized by the previous tech using the machine so that you can not find (easily) [...]
I hope you all have been having a wonderful summer and I hope you can join us for our next meeting Thursday Aug 6th at 6:30. The meeting will be hosted at The Lab Digital Production and Workprint Studios.
The Lab - Digital Production LLC
Workprint Studios
1618 Central Ave. NE
Suite 130
Minneapolis MN 55413
612.850.6860
www.thelabdigital.com
www.workprintstudios.com
Thursday Aug 6th 6:30-9PM
This should be a [...]
ThinkGeek :: Photoshop Magnet Kit :: Additional Images.
ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses.
This site should offer a little distraction for your uber geeky mind..
The other day a photographer asked me to set up a way that the client could remotely watch our photo shoot from her NYC office. After trying a couple different things we settled on using iChat (Apple software). The problem with this is if the client does not use iChat they may not have a [...]
Check out Flow here.
Flow could possibly be implemented into complex composites/workflows with many images and files versions.
