Print Production – how to do it right

Name: Print Production – how to do it right
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Calibrating grayscale and color images for print

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Created byMark Gatter

Last updated 7/2020

English

What you'll learn

How to calibrate grayscale and color images for print

Course content

2 sections • 14 lectures • 1h 14m total length

Print Production - Introduction4:48
Discover why print colors shift from IGB colors to CNY K inks and learn to fix it using Photoshop levels, color presets, and a calibration test strip for high-quality prints.
What kind of printing do I need?5:54
This video explains the differences between the two common printing methods: digital and offset. Then it explains the problems that arise from using RGB colour images. This video also contains some absolutely essential Photoshop shortcuts.
RGB vs. CMYK – what do I need to know?4:33
A visual representation of the differences between RGB vs. CMYK – and also their similarities. This explains why RGB colours often don't work in print.

Image resolution8:46
Explore image resolution across web, digital printing, and offset printing, detailing 96 dpi web, 150 dpi digital, and 300 dpi offset, line screens, cmyk color, and moiré patterns.
How does a printing press work?4:17
Discover how an offset press transfers ink through the damping unit with pH-balanced solution to the plate, blanket, and impression cylinders, and how analog transfers affect contrast and density.
Dot gain explained...3:34
This video shows what happens to an image going through a sheet-fed and then through a web offset press. It also shows the differences between the channels in a CMYK and an RGB image.
Photoshop's 'Color Settings' window5:32
This video shows the Color Settings window in Photoshop. This is where the different CMS profiles can be found. It then explains how to apply the one that's going to work best.
The Calibration Test Strip5:24
This is a key video – it explains how to use the Calibration Test Strip resource to compensate for dot gain, and to calibrate the image so that the shadows and highlights don't burn out during printing.
Making your own CMS file4:38
This video covers creating and saving your own CMS in Photoshop, then applying it to the other Adobe apps using Adobe Bridge. Then we check to see that the new CMS is actually in place.
What's the 'ink limit', and is it important?2:56
What's the ink limit? Can you see it? Does it make a difference? If you're using Adobe InDesign, the answer is YES. And it's REALLY important! This video shows you everything you need to know.
Image Calibration – grayscale6:47
Calibrate a grayscale image by restricting tone range to 95% dark and 6% light using levels, threshold, and histogram readouts to match print dot gain and color management.
Image Calibration – CMYK4:36
Learn how to calibrate CMYK images by adjusting cyan, magenta, yellow, and black channels with threshold and levels, ensuring no empty pixels for consistent print results.
Making a Hi-Res PDF from Adobe InDesign5:57
Making a high-resolution PDF. This is pretty easy, so long as you tweak a couple of the settings. Otherwise, it's not a safe area at all!
Resizing an Image6:38
Set the right resolution for web, digital printing, and offset printing, resize in Photoshop using image size, linking, resampling, and use onOne Resize while calibrating monitors with spider data color.

Requirements

A basic knowledge of Photoshop and InDesign will help.

Description

How an image looks on-screen and how it ends up printing can be two totally different things. This course will show you what's happening on the press and why the differences arise – and how to avoid them. It covers image calibration in Adobe Photoshop and shows you all about dot-gain, and highlight and shadow compensation. In these videos, anyone who has ever wondered how to make their images print properly will find the answers they need.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who is unsure of the requirements of the print process.

Print Production – how to do it right

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Introduction3 lectures • 15min

'Dot gain', highlights and shadows etc.11 lectures • 59min

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