Sunday, August 1, 2010

Soft Proofing ( In photoshop), An introduction to fine art printing.

Digital Imaging has worked wonders and will keep doing so. The things that were at times unimaginable in the film era are now possible with no time and with utmost use. The only segment of digital imaging that has loads of ways to improve to be just at par or overturn the film era is however the printing technology. There has been a sea improvement in this segment and is thhere is a development of technology almost evry other day but there is a lot to improve too.

The major problem in printing digital images is the difference in what we see and what we get. Well we all know the obvious reason of such a difference and that is the difference in our viewing environment. We view the images in screen where light is coming through the image where as in prints we see it when the light is falling on it that is by reflective light which causes all the difference as there is a large difference in the luminosity of these two lights.

Soft proofing is the ability to view a simulation of how your image will look when out- put to the printer on your monitor, based on the chosen profile. The workflow would go something like the following:

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Kumbh Mela


The incredible journey to the kumbh mela, Haridwar, 2010.