Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff, I think that all of the colour management freaks (including me!) are stressing too much. IMHO just get the size right and the resolution at 300ppi and make it sRGB for your own viewing. After all this isn't a $200 art book with custom fine art printing or something. I did not even want to go there regarding the CMYK. I am going to try the Bonsai article techniques and make my own book for fun, using the Word /PDF approach. One workaround is to submit BW. I sent toned BW this year. Get those pics in to poor Jim in a hurry. Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Moore Sent: Monday, 31 December 2007 07:47 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Blurb buzzed; gamut tips? 2007-12-30-03:01:41 G Hopkinson: > The BookSsmart software help also links to the ICC profile for the HP > printer used by Blurb printers. So you can soft-proof. However note that > Blurb says it does not honor profiles in uploaded pictures. Should get you close though. I think I may be trying too hard. I want stuff to look good in printed form, so (per this article) http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1014&message=21636659 http://www.bonsai-photography.com/blurb-color-management.pdf I'm converting to sRGB then soft-proofing with the HP Indigo 5000 profile plugged in. Then I'm just horrified to see that all the blacks are now grey, and most of the darker or redder bits of a photo are out-of-gamut. And it's not clear how to massage the photo so as to give a subjectively-good result within that gamut. (I expect it's the same skill I *should* have developed by now to print my damn' pictures here at home.) If I convert a photo into the HP 5000 colorspace (which is CMYK), I can generally find at least one rendering-intent flavor which looks good on my monitor; but is there some way to do that conversion, clip the image to that gamut, then convert back to RGB and sRGB? Or is that a totally wrongheaded, terribly lossy approach? In the meantime, of course, my pictures are piling up to be part of the last-minute deluge Jim gets, which I'm not so proud of. Sigh. By the way, another datapoint (which Jim can correct, if he wishes): if he keeps with the same layout as last year, it's a full-bleed rendition of the left-page picture of your spread, but the right-page picture tends to be limited to (my measurement; Jim may be more precise) 5-1/4" high, leaving room for both pictures' captions. So you'll want to choose and scale pictures accordingly, I assume. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information