Re: CMYK Previewing and accurate CMYK Profiles coming to Designer Pro+
Originally Posted by
gwpriester
At present there is only one export profile, which is industry standard (whatever that means). No I did not print the images.
But I have used Xara since 1996 to create color stereogram images for books and magazines and the CMYK color has always been predictably muted in case of certain colors, such as bright green or purple. But in the end the question is, does it look convincing? Most people will never see the original of an image only the printed image.
In the 70s when I was fresh out of art school and working as an advertising art director, I spent literally two months fine tuning a magazine ad for Datsun (now Nissan) featuring two cars. The original photograph was printed (dye transfer print) retouched, and then photoengraved for the magazine, with numerous revisions made until the proofs looked absolutely perfect.
The ad ran in Time Magazine, Life Magazine and several other magazines.
When I got my first copy of Time I was appalled. The color was shifted ten ways to Sunday and not at all like the proof we approved.
I showed the ad to my wife and was going on and on about how terrible it looked. She took a look and said it looked fine to her. She could not see anything wrong.
I learned two things. One if the color looks convincing, that is about as much as you can hope for. and Two, you are always at the mercy of the other photographs on the signature. So if in this case one of the images was a white car and on the same signature is a page of red roses, the white car is going to take on a tint of red. Because all the images on the spread are soft of balanced out.
But I do think the PDF output for Pro+ shows a noticeable improvement and the colors are brighter and more saturated. (apologies for the rant)
Very interesting Gary.
Larry a.k.a wizard509
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