[Leica] Blurb books

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

The final result is not over-sharpened. But you get double up if you
try and do everything yourself.

Images intended for print on paper _should_ be sharpened much more
than you would do so for display on a screen. It is in an attempt to
get the ink image (that spreads out) to accurately represent the image
you have.

If you know this and add extra sharpening, then Blurb adds more on top
of that ... you get junk.

But you'll see that on the screen before you send to press.

If you just leave the images alone, they'll be fine.

Daniel


On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com> wrote:
> I must admit, that my experience was not the same. I did not "feel" that 
> the software "played" with the sharpening: I may be wrong. I tended to add 
> a little "clarity" to some of the images after seeing the "artist's 
> proof", but mostly to improve the smaller jpegs of those who could not 
> submit a larger file.
>
> Cheers
>
> --- dlridings@gmail.com wrote:
>
> From: "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Blurb books
> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:42:54 +0200
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1@cox.net> wrote:
>> For those of you dabbling in Blurb books, I see that Blurb has published 
>> the
>> icc profile for the HP printers their contractors use, enabling soft
>> proofing in PS.  Blurb doesn't say anything about sharpening.
>
> In my experience, the Blurb software sharpens A LOT. So you should
> probably not sharpen your images at all. It will get done further down
> the road.
>
> Daniel
> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/229684
> (a Rollei book)
>
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