The Catalog Doctor Marketing Remedies for Multichannel Pro
The solution is proper application of sharpening, which isn't a simple thing to get right. It's also not something your photographer can necessarily optimize just by looking at a monitor. So pay close attention to "unsharp masking," learn its appearance, what too much of it looks like (things begin looking as if they've been traced), and make sure your digital professionals are applying it optimally.
Susan J. McIntyre is Founder and Chief Strategist of McIntyre Direct, a catalog agency and consultancy in Portland, Oregon offering complete creative, strategic, circulation and production services since 1991. Susan's broad experience with cataloging in multi-channel environments, plus her common-sense, bottom-line approach, have won clients from Vermont Country Store to Nautilus to C.C. Filson. A three-time ECHO award winner, McIntyre has addressed marketers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, has written and been quoted in publications worldwide, and is a regular columnist for Retail Online Integration magazine and ACMA. She can be reached at 503-286-1400 or susan@mcintyredirect.com.
