“Is it true that if you don’t use it, you can lose it?” — Steve Carell, “The 40 Year Old Virgin”
Sometimes . . . at least temporarily. Or so I discovered when my inkjet prints looked terrible. Colors were muddy or just plain wrong: yellow got into my blues, green got into my reds, green was the wrong green, etc. I had forgotten my not-so-secret sauce for printing from Adobe Photoshop.
Fortunately, I had written it all down a few years ago and could go back to the digital workflow that has worked so well for me. (Addendum: Make backups.)
Crisis averted. Confidence restored.
This is a great document! my ad hoc workflow is going to get a good streamline from your ideas. Thanks for this!
Hi Jeff, I read with some trepidation, but you didn’t let me down, as usual
One small note you and your readers might find interesting. Your pdf is out of date wrt the CS2 changes in Photoshop’s print dialog. I had to use my own design improvements to diagnose my own printing problem a year or so ago. Here’s my post on it:
http://www.ghostweather.com/blog/2006/01/printing-with-photoshop.html
Eventually maybe I’ll see all the great Matlab stuff you guys did for color — I’ll see some of it in Photoshop, of course!
–Best, Lynn
You’re absolutely right, Lynn. The print dialog in Photoshop CS2 is much better. Yes, I’m one of those bad people who waits forever to upgrade software.