[filmscanners] RE: 3 Newbie questions

["Maaki" <maaki@pacbell.net>]

>
>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.

Thank you Paul.

It appears the problem is that there are NO embedded profiles in the files.

I tried setting the RGB preferences to "Adobe RGB (1998)". But now
whenever I try to open a .psd  or .tif  file that was scanned and
color corrected by the graphic designer, (specifically for this
project), I get a Missing Profile alert.

For example, one alert said:

          The CMYK document does not have an embedded color profile.
          How do you want to proceed?
                 -Leave it as is (don't color manage)
                 -Assign working CMYK/ (U.S. Web Coated (SWOP)v2
                 -Assign profile. (with a number of choices listed)

I'm beginning to wonder if the graphic designer I had hired for the
past 5 months was a wee bit over her head also. All her files are
CMYK TIFs.  I had thought everything was okay until after she left,
when I opened the files she prepared, on another Macintosh, and
discovered a significant color shift. I'm discovering now there is a
lot more involved, (including perhaps some errors in procedures),
than I had initially imagined  when I asked my first question about
the apparent different behaviour of two calibrated Trinitron monitors.

I'm wondering now if I should just give up and start over with
another graphic designer. I know how to use Microsoft Excel, but this
stuff is way beyond my level of expertise.

Maaki

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