Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers Tutorials
Output / Printing pt. 1
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Subtitles of the Movie (Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers / Output / Printing pt. 1)
After you've resized, sharpened and soft proofed your images, you're ready to print them. The first step in ensuring that your prints look the way you expect them to is to be certain you've calibrated your monitor using an external device color calibrated such as the Monkey, Huey or Spider. If your monitor isn't calibrated accurately, then there's no way to create a file that can be reliably seen accurately by other devices, including your printer. You'll wind up wasting a lot of paper and be printing by trial and error. It's worth the expense to invest in a good calibration unit. Next, consider the type of paper to use for your image. Some images and photographic styles look good on very smooth papers while others look better on textured papers and similarly, some photographers prefer matte paper while others prefer semi-gloss, luster or glossy. There's not a right or wrong, just different looks. Buying sample packs of a variety of papers from different vendors is a good idea so that you can experiment and pick a couple that work for you. When you're ready to print, come over here to File, Print. Don't select Print One Copy, even if you're only intending to make a single copy of the image because you can't access the controls from Print One Copy. You must choose Print. The Printing Dialog Boxes vary a little bit between the different operating systems so on a PC they're going to look slightly different. In addition, the specific Printer Dialog Boxes for each printer, whether Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Cannon, et cetera also differ. I'm going to describe and show you printing on a Mac using an Epson printer. If you have a different operating system or a different printer, I'm going to describe what to do because you're going to set similar settings. Begin by choosing your printer and specifying the number of copies. On a Mac, you must select the Page Setup. Again, specify the printer and the paper size that you want to use. Then specify the orientation; whether it's a vertical image or a horizontal and click OK. You can also set the vertical or horizontal option here in case you've messed it up in Page Setup. I do recommend that you center the image on the page but don't use the Scale Print Size Option or the Scale to Fit Media. If you followed my workflow, you'll have used Image, Image Size inside of Photoshop to resize your image so that then you could sharpen it according to its output size. That's going to give you the highest quality image. You can check Match Print Colors here to do a quick soft proof of the image. If you find a significant difference, you may want to go back and re-Soft Proof your image the way I describe in the movie on Soft Proofing. Come over here to Color Management and specify Document. Next make sure you choose Photoshop Manages Colors for color handling. This is key. There's a warning here that says remember to disable color management in the printer dialog box and you might say, isn't this the printer dialog box? Well, this is the Photoshop Printer Dialog Box. What they're referring to is the specific printer dialog box that's going to come up next that is unique to your individual printer. You must choose the Printer Profile for Photoshop to use on your image. Specify the printer and the type of paper; for example, Epson Pro 4800, Premium Luster Photo Paper. And then choose the same rendering intent that you chose when you soft proofed the image. If you didn't soft proof the image, then you might toggle between Relative Color and Metric and Perceptual with your Match Print Colors on to see which way you prefer it; most of the time it'll look better with Relative Color or Metric. Leave Black Point Compensation checked and then click Print.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers |
| Author: | Ellen Anon |
| SKU: | 34036 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-74-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-09-23 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 112 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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