[filmscanners] RE: 3 Newbie questions

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

> From: Maaki
>
> Nevertheless, I still need to send some images to an author in China
> who has requested them for a book he is writing. It seems now, that
> it's best that I send him slides wherever possible. Unfortunately
> however, some of my old slides are off-color, and those I was
> planning to send as digital images.
>
> It turns out that the graphic designer I had hired to color correct
> the slides, had always worked in a shop where someone else looked
> after all the hardware and  the software, so she hadn't set any of
> the preferences. She's gone now, and I just checked  the Photoshop 6
> preference settings on the computer that she had been using. The
> Color Settings were left at "Web Graphics Defaults" with RGB set at
> "sRBG IEC61966-21".
>
> The book will probably be published in China,  so for the badly
> off-color slides that were scanned and color corrected by the graphic
> designer, should I re-set the preferences to "US Prepress Defaults",
> "Japan Prepress Defaults" or perhaps "European Prepress Defaults",
> before  re-checking the color on my screen?  All three have RGB
> default set at "Adobe RGB 1998".

I don't see how one can reasonably be expected to produce CMYK images
without specific profiles for the printer in question. I would expect that
any reasonable print house should be able to accept (and indeed should
prefer) images in an RGB color space with an embedded profile. And it
shouldn't matter what specific color space (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.) you
choose, because any modern image processing software will obey the profile.
If they can't deal with that, then they must have some _real_ stone-age
software.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

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