You can then do your order, or get another proof or one-off to dial in one more time. It might look kinda funky but save the layered files, and then save separate flattened TIFFs or high-rez JPEGs and send them back to the service. Then you turn off the layers you made to match the proof, leaving only the layers that corrected the image. So another hue/sat layer to bring the saturation up, levels or curves to change the tonality. Put those layers in a group/folder, and then add adjustment layers to get the image looking how you want it to print. Like, cut the saturation, boost the blacks, whatever you can do on a layer to match the screen to the proof as close as you can. One trick you can do with Photoshop is use adjustment layers to match your image on the screen to the proof. When you get the proof, study it in good, daylight-colored lighting near your computer. Usually the first thing you do is convert to CMYK color space and lift the deepest blacks. Then you adjust your images to "fit" their process. Then you see if they'll do any sort of proof - like you did, a one-off book, but you may get a batter price if they don't bind it and just send the pages. and verify that they maintain their gear to some sort of standard and can guarantee that the same file will print the same today as it will 6 months from now. With a consumer service, you need to talk to their service dept. If you were going to print 20,000 catalogs or postcards, the printer first makes you a proof, which resembles the way the final will print then you can go back and adjust your colors based on the actual printing press being used. It comes down to things like printing paper and inks can't get near the color gamut of scans or a computer screen, the types of paper affect the tonality, and some inks tend to spread a bit and make images look murky (think of a drop of coffee hitting a newspaper, it grows as it soaks in - coated papers negate this a bit, but it's still planned for in modern prepress work). This isn't specific to Blurb or any other printing service or technology. Just curious if anyone who has used blurb can comment on similar experience? I did not use the image enhance feature in bookwright (looks like it functions almost like instagram's auto enhance feature/slider tool) as it made the pictures on the screen look a little much, but maybe that's just what the pictures needed to be printed with more saturation? If it matters I chose premium matte paper.Īnyways let this be a thread for blurb tips and hints as I couldn't find anything besides fragmented info whilst searching reddit I know that printing, unless done in adobe rgb will lose some colour gamut. I exported them as full size jpegs, with no out sharpening (In retrospect, I probably should have done output sharpening for print but I doubt that would affect colour rendition?) When I got the book the pictures look good but the colours are not nearly as saturated as how they look on screen. The pictures were all made in my f100 and bessa r4.when using the bookwright app they were all looking good. So I went ahead and made a small blurb photo book to test out colours and whatnot before I make a nice hardcover one for documenting 2020.
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