Amen.

Anyone ever seen someone make a 5% bump like this?

Hmmmmm. Moving the endpoint seems ok, but the highlight move prolly not ideal 

That's not a bump, that's a plug. :laugh:

that just seems silly

I know, when I first started at this company a guy was making a file correction for the press in PS and I was watching going like wtf are you doing and he said I'm making a 5% overall correction. Convinced him that aint right.

So I get to another plant and lookey lookey they are doing it here too. Where might one pick up this highly dubious color correcting technique?

"Prepress for Idiots", by B. Sausage.

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on February 23, 2010, 08:44:27 PM"Prepress for Idiots", by B. Sausage.

Do you know if that comes in paperback? Obviously I've been doing it wrong for the last couple of decades.

Funny, you should hear the sausages here debating subtractive color theory.

Quote from: Stiv on February 24, 2010, 09:30:13 AMFunny, you should hear the sausages here debating subtractive color theory.

that should put you to sleep.
I always enjoy listening to idiots expounding on subjects that they have no idea of what the hell they're talking about.
cheep entertainment, and of course, I'm easily amused.

Quote from: ratintrap on February 22, 2010, 11:17:11 AMUp until the company that did our printing bought us out, process color was a very rare thing in the newspaper that I work for. The new owners want to have process color on a regular basis.

Since I haven't had much experience with CMYK color correction in the past, I've always been kind of insecure about my CMYK color correction skills. :embarrassed:

Does anyone have any tips or pointers that would help me out? Anyone know of some some online resources for that kind of thing?

2 general rules to live by for printing on newsprint.

If you have a CRT monitor and it looks good on the screen it will print dark on newsprint.

If you have an LCD monitor and it looks good on the screen it will print VERY dark on newsprint.

Quote from: Joe on March 05, 2010, 06:28:36 PM

Quote from: ratintrap on February 22, 2010, 11:17:11 AMUp until the company that did our printing bought us out, process color was a very rare thing in the newspaper that I work for. The new owners want to have process color on a regular basis.

Since I haven't had much experience with CMYK color correction in the past, I've always been kind of insecure about my CMYK color correction skills. :embarrassed:

Does anyone have any tips or pointers that would help me out? Anyone know of some some online resources for that kind of thing?

2 general rules to live by for printing on newsprint.

If you have a CRT monitor and it looks good on the screen it will print dark on newsprint.

If you have an LCD monitor and it looks good on the screen it will print VERY dark on newsprint.

My CRT displays dark.

Maybe if it looks good on it, it will look good on newsprint. You can say you have a "calibrated monitor" if it does. :laugh:

It actually matches pretty good.