Digital BW, The Print

No TIFF support at all, for images using Booksmart all you have is jpeg or
png. You can go the PDF which may give the benefits of using a TIFF format.
 
I have now published three books using Booksmart, two were full color, the
other was a mix of color, neutral black & white and some toned black & white
images. Very pleased with the results. I first made a small book, cost
around $12.00 with free shipping. Used that as a comparison to soft proofing
using the Blurb profile. They were really close.
 
I am only familiar with soft proofing in Photoshop (CS3 & CS5) and there
profile seemed pretty accurate to my eyes and what I got back in printed
form. This all assumes you have a calibrated monitor!
 
By the way black & white images are not in grey scale they have an sRGB
profile so soft proofing is a must. I have great success converting color
images to B&W using  Silver Efx Pro. My scanned black & white negatives are
scanned in RGB and run through Efx Pro. Final output to sRGB then soft
proofed, then added to the book and off we go.
 
Mike

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of goldhorde
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:25 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Blurb and B&W


  

That doesn't make any sense - PNG format makes a difference more so in
VECTOR art rather than in RASTER (bitmap/pixel) art when compared to JPEG.
Something is going on at BLURBs processing end or with their workflow
parameter preferences. Does BLURB accept TIF format with LZW compression?

-Dean Daniels
dean@... <mailto:dean%40colorguys.com>  
(GoldHorde) 

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