Tips: Color Correction
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- Jesk315
Long time listener... first time caller...
Hello everyone! New to the community and already loving it!
Wanted to know if any of you knew any good resources for color correction. Or if you had any tips and tricks of your own to assist with. I am working on a large print/layout project and have tons of color correction to do. Client is on a PC and I am on a MAC. So when we go to proof on screen, things turn out a bit different. So my questions are these.
Aside from matching pantones when printing and to your screen, would anyone know of any ways to match screen colors (RGB) to your swop colors or your CMYK palette? I want to make sure that the client doesn't get distracted with colors being different on his screen. I know it might be hard, but getting the screen colors as close as possible to match printed colors would be great.
Any apps that work. Any sites that can help. Any books. Any comments. These would all help. We have a tight deadline, but not to tight that I can't do a bit more research.
Thanks in advance for reading and participating.
- Jesk3150
:: bump ::
Any one?
- ********0
wow, good question!
- Jesk3150
I thought it was good. Sucks no one can help.
Books? Links?
- Brigman0
Keep bumping it. I imagine within the next 20 minutes someone will have an answer.
- Mick0
Just try and educate the user that their screen is not a complete representation of the color.
The key is in high quality printed proofs. Find yourself a printer or output bureau that has very accurate proofing capabilities. Tell your client that before he goes to print, if he wants an accurate (95% accurate) view of the colors, he will have to pay for a digital proof. If he then wants to play with the colour more, he will have only wasted the cost of the proof ($100 or so).
Just tell him this is the process that all agencies go through and is the best way to see what his printed piece will look like. Tell him the reason a screen color looks different is because printing is made up of 4 colours (CMYK) using additive colours, and a monitor is 3 colours (RGB) - subtractive colours.
- ********0
yes screeen will neverevevevever even be close to the final sucks!
and if u go to image adjust levelslevels - use the little white dropper ot hit the absolute white & the black dropper to hit the absolute black in your photo - VOILAA u gots a dope fixed photo son!
its amayzing
- Duane0
There's no way to totally match screen color to output color as you're dealing with reflected light vs. transmissive light. Your best bet is to learn to read the CMYK values in Photoshop and to incorporate a proofing process into your workflow as mentioned previously. After a while you get pretty good at estimating the output colors from screen values. In the meantime, use proofs and keep a CMYK mix book near you for reference.
- jamesk6170
I think the best way is just to print it on glassy papers.
I would get a portable printer if you are traveling around and tell them that this will be 80% of final look.
- BonSeff0
i work for furniture and fabric mfgr's and i color correct more than i care to admit. color is critical in our sales materials. i have found no real solution from screen to press. but we have been satisfied with apple cinima displays an the pantone spyder callibration tool
http://www.pantone.com/products/…
no matter how close we feel we get on screen and with our match prints, we always make at least 6 moves on press. it has come to the point on our last few jobs that we have skipped the match print all together and went with press proofs. they are kinda spendy but the projects warranted it.anyhoo, welcome to h-e-double-hockeysticks.
- muckychris0
I agree with the privious post. Screen to press is a nightmare in most ever sitiuation. But I've had goos luck with the Pantone Spyder to get all inhouse systems (MAC / PC + LCD / CRT) to at least be relatively similar. - c
- BonSeff0
we are on press all day thurs, friday and monday. doing a shit load of printing at buccanan. 20 forms! brutal.
8 forms @ 6 color, 2 @5 color, 1@2 color and 9@ 1 color. at least i think that's how it breaks down
i'll keep baseball style stats on our on screen v press results.
me and jen busted ass on this job and believe its gonna go smooth (as far as color correction goes). if it does, i'll be happy to share what worked with other print-tards. eventhough all presses & prepress dept's are different and all that shit.
fuck im drunk.. babble babble gulp
- stewart0
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