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[Emily]

 

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TOPIC: self publishing / printers
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.publish.books/browse_thread/thread/76186aaca5cf959f
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Date: Sat, Dec 16 2006 10:16 am
From: "micha...@mocabookdesign.com" 



Randy Yates wrote:
> Why? We are open-desktop people here, using tools from the
> open source community. GIMP is probably the tool I'll be using
> for photo manipulation.
>

Be careful with GIMP. I use Photoshop but I know a number of people
building Web sites that use GIMP. The problem with a print environment
is its lack of support for CMYK. I know there is an ad-on that gives
some support but I have seen some CMYK files done with it and they
could get you into trouble on press.

When I'm doing press work I do all colour correction in CMYK. That is
the only way you can be fairly certain what the image will look like on
press. Even then what you see on screen isn't necessarily what you get
in print. Over time you get a feel for the CMYK values and what they
should be for a given colour.

It would be worthwhile to let your printer do any colour correction and
the CMYK conversion. The rest of the design you can do yourself and the
printer can replace RGB images for CMYK just before printing.

 



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