Managing Colourspace

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The thing is, sending digital files to print is complicated if you’re after a reasonably consistent ouput, and especially if you’re expecting the print to look more or less as it does on your screen. And if you’ve more than one computer, which screen is showing the right colours? So, you’ve faffed about (technical term) for hours in CS3 and your blue summer sky is just the right shade of French cigarette packet, and the orange is well, fruity, and your bowser is the real shiny bowser yellow. Excellent.

Here are a few links to help make sense of why your print may just have turned out to have a purple sky and a pinkish rescue machine.

And

  • more than you’ll ever want to know about calibrating your monitor. Do it. I feel like I’ve just taken off a pair of swimming goggles.

One of the students said yesterday: “things were much easier when we had the colour darkrooms”. Really. And it wasn’t me.

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