Book printing workflow recommendations?
I’ve printed individual images on my Epson in the past, using C1, QImage One, or exporting to Lightroom (whIch seems to have the best soft proofing).
But I’m about to try getting some books printed - wedding photos for family, probably 50-60 images per book. Knowledgeable local friends have recommended Blurb for this, though I’m open to other suggestions. Blurb can provide a CMYK profile.
If anyone has done anything similar in the past, starting with a reasonable number of images in C1, I’d be grateful for any tips!
It seems there are several routes I could take between where I am now and having files to upload to Blurb. The kind of questions I’m asking myself are...
* Lightroom does this nice thing of creating a proof copy - a variant you can tweak after applying the profile etc, and then adjust so that the soft proof looks good. Should I start by cloning all my variants in C1 so I don’t mess with my originals? And if so, how do I know which variants are which?
* Since they want CMYK, will I have to use Photoshop anyway to get proofing? Any other good options I should consider?
Any suggestions for a good workflow gratefully received!
But I’m about to try getting some books printed - wedding photos for family, probably 50-60 images per book. Knowledgeable local friends have recommended Blurb for this, though I’m open to other suggestions. Blurb can provide a CMYK profile.
If anyone has done anything similar in the past, starting with a reasonable number of images in C1, I’d be grateful for any tips!
It seems there are several routes I could take between where I am now and having files to upload to Blurb. The kind of questions I’m asking myself are...
* Lightroom does this nice thing of creating a proof copy - a variant you can tweak after applying the profile etc, and then adjust so that the soft proof looks good. Should I start by cloning all my variants in C1 so I don’t mess with my originals? And if so, how do I know which variants are which?
* Since they want CMYK, will I have to use Photoshop anyway to get proofing? Any other good options I should consider?
Any suggestions for a good workflow gratefully received!
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[quote="quentinsf" wrote:
Blurb can provide a CMYK profile.
If you say so, but the profile used in Blurb's book creation software is sRGB.
Why do you want to use CMYK?
(Just curious.)
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Mmm... I’m sure I read somewhere that final proofing had to be done with Photoshop because it was the only package that did the right thing with their CMYK-based profile. But I can’t find it now, so perhaps it was an old (or incorrect) post... 0 -
[quote="quentinsf" wrote:
Mmm... I’m sure I read somewhere that final proofing had to be done with Photoshop because it was the only package that did the right thing with their CMYK-based profile. But I can’t find it now, so perhaps it was an old (or incorrect) post...
Hi Quentin,
I have done this already. Three books printed by Blurb and edited with Capture One.
What I do is making first adjustments in a standard work space (mine is very large), then switching to the printing profile provided by Blurb, only for having a simulation of the result. To that purpose, I have created a process recipe "jpeg 100% CMYK Blurb profile", and used the "recipe profile" tool (a pair of glasses in the main menu). When necessary, you can try to compensate the narrow Blurb colour space using the development tools of Capture One mostly saturation, brightness, contrast).
Then, of course, you should include your images in the Blurb editing software, with a sRGB space, and NOT with the CMYK space !!
Read the Blurb recommendations : they don't want CMYK images.
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[quote="quentinsf" wrote:
I’ve printed individual images on my Epson in the past, using C1, QImage One, or exporting to Lightroom (whIch seems to have the best soft proofing).
Any suggestions for a good workflow gratefully received!
I have been printing books using Aperture, iPhoto and now Photos for many years. Apple no longer directly supports printing but you can obtain the Motif plugin for Photos from the App store <https://www.motifphotos.com/en-us> which works very similarly to what used to be built-in. I have used Motif for about two years. It is easy to use and provides good results.
After processing my photos in C1, I process out a selection, usually more than I will use, as high quality full size jpegs and then import them into Photos. Then use Motif to build and order your book.
I use the same process to print calendars, if that is of any interest to you.0 -
Many thanks everybody!
Those are all useful suggestions. I will explore further.0
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