Traveling Through Digital Waters

He saves the composed image, pre-CMYK, pre-sharpened, “So that if the client has any concerns, we can go back and change things without destroying the file.”

For color conversion from RGB to CMYK, Balint recently began using LinoColor from Heidelberg CPS, the same software application his prepress vendor uses when scanning. “We found that in shooting digital and dropping [the model images] into Photoshop and color separating them, the models were coming out a little red,” Balint explains. “I was pointing a finger at the digital camera technology because we never really had this problem with our conventional shots. But as it turns out, Photoshop has a weakness in color separating fleshtones; they just tend to go pink. We’re still in our infancy period with LinoColor, but so far, we like what we see.”