Saturday, 24 November 2012

MAJOR PROJECT - WORKSHOP, THE PRINT SPACE

















The best day this year?  Technically.  We had a printing workshop today at The Print Space.  A lot of first times. 

Digital C type (indeed quite different colour gamma from Giclee)

Different kind of papers:

Digital C-type:
Fuji Crystal Archive Matt or Gloss
Kodak Metallic (super for B&W)
Fuji Flex

Giclee:
Hahnemuhle Photorag (like a water colour fibre)
Hahnemuhle Pearl
Hahnemuhel German Etching (very analogy)
Canson Baryta
Canson Aquarella Rag
Harman Warmtone

A systematic intro on mounting substrates:
Card/Foam Board/Foamex/MDF/Aluminium/Dibond/Acrylic Reverse
Also fixings on the back like: split batons, metal frame, etc
Framing:
Window/Box/Shadow Edge Frame/etc
(London Picture Frame is part of the same group! We walked there too.)

Soft Proof:
RGB, 8bit (Image>Mode)
Sizing (resample)
Print profiles to download, then drop to Libray>Colour Syn>Profile
Proof Setup to choose paper (perceptive &  Relative) to check (tick black compensation) preview
Retouch (curves) or (select certain colour to retouch)
Change Profile (to paper’s or Adobe)
& calibration of screen too beforehand

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