myPublisher Catalog - continued
I received the two paperbacks I did of the catalog. These were actually the best in terms of lack of magenta, and how the images looked against the black background:
I was happy with the layout I came up with as well. 40 some odd pages. Price, with the discounts, tax, and shipping: $16 per book. That is by far the best price so far. You’ve got to order over $100 to get the 40% discount. Fine with me since I plan to send / sell a lot of catalogs. And frankly, and book I do - I’m going to be able to sell at least $100 worth.
So that’s done with. I don’t think it makes sense to do the hardback catalog which is really much more expensive - though I’ll ship the couple I’ve made to some of the Interior Designers / Art Buyers I’ve worked with.
Now - one more thing to decide on. If there are a lot of images on the page - the black background works well in terms of minimizing the magenta look. However - I’m not sure that works if there is one big image on the page. Right now - I think the white background works best when there’s one image per page. I really can’t explain that.
What impressed me - was that in the small book, my deepest blacks were actually blacker than the black paper background. I’ve got a white and a black background version of the Central Park book on the way and then I’ll decide on that.
In the meantime - I’ve culled about 200 shots of people for what I think will be a 50 page people book - probably paperback to start. It’s a good way to see what works together before going larger - and the images are all at large image sizes so I can go to the medium-sized book easily.
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Comments
Comment from dave beckerman
Time: April 27, 2008, 10:08 am
Hi Markus — what I’m saying - trying to say - is that if the images are printed against a black background (see link to book) - there is very little color shift under different lights - and frankly the images are downright neutral.
However - against white background - there is a slight magenta cast under tungsten (neutral in daylight) - and that is a bit of a weird - but happy - discovery. (Unless it was just a fluke in that batch). I’ve ordered 7 more paperbacks with black background and that will finalize it for me. As far as the image blacks being deeper than the background black - that’s actually a good thing.
Comment from Markus Hartel
Time: April 27, 2008, 9:21 am
check the CMYK breakdown and add some color if the black background is not as black as the dense spots in your images. how does the color/magenta cast look in different light sources? i.e. tungsten light vs. daylight? if they look different, you’re dealing with metamerism and basically you’ll have to live with it, but if the cast is somewhat consistent you can easily compensate for it in PS.