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This page left blank. 302 GETTING LIGHTJET 5000 PRINTS FROM CALYPSO, INC. I ABOUT THE IMAGE 1 45.1 - Purple & Yellow Itis on Gmn Canon EOS ID digital camera on tripod, 300mm F12.8 IS with 25mm exten - sion tube, IS0 200, RAW image quality setting, F18.0 8 1125.1.648 x 2,464 pixels, slightly edited and con - verted to kbits per channel, 12.2MB .tif I f you want the ultimate print made from one of your image files, then you want a Lightjet 5000 print made on Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper. These continuous tone photographs are known for their rich blacks, print permanence, and excellent color range. Such prints are the preferred prints of many artists and professional photographers all over the world. Wile there are over 400 sites worldwide that have Lightjet printers, only a few of those sites keep their printers properly color - managed so that you get consistent prints that match the images on your monitor. Calypso, Inc. (www . calypsoinc . corn), in Santa Clara, California is one wmpany that I recommend due to the efforts they take to provide you with wlor- managed prints. Their focus is on nature, landscape, wildlife, line art, and travel markets, and they have a list of customers that includes many of the finest photographers in the world. To get prints made at Calypso, you can either upload image files to their ITP site or you can write the image files to a CD - ROM and send them via mail or a courier service. Calypso offers two different pric - ing plans. The " preferred " pricing plan is for images that have been prepped, color - managed, and profiled directly to the Calypso Lightjet 5000. In this uw, you take all the responsibility for color management Or, you can pay more and have them do some of the work for you and they will be responsible for color- management. Please visit the Calypso Web site and read Calypso's Guide to Color Management on the Lightjet 5000. This technique covers the steps you need to take to enjoy the " preferred " pricing plan. In thii technique, you take a 3.1 megapixel photo of an iris taken with a Canon EOS D30 digital camera and follow steps to size the image and sharpen it so that it can be used to make an 11 " x 14 " Litjet 5000 glossy print at Calypso, Inc. I had Calypso print a series of increasingly larger prints with the intent of stopping once the image began to show some degradation. Much to my sur - prise and jubilation, they stopped printing when they got to a 30 " x 40 " print due to shipping problems and the costs of shipping larger prints - not because of image degradation! If you take into account the dis - tance that you view an image, there was no visible dif - ference between the 11 " x 14" print and the 30 " x 40 " print. Obviously, you stand back a couple of feet when you are looking at a print as large as 30 " x 40", which is much further badc than if you were lookingat an 8 " x 10" print. Digital cameras make great images for making large prints - test one of your images. STEP 1: DOWNLOAD CALYPSO'S LIGHTJET 5000 ICC COLOR PROFILE In order to get a print from Calypso that matches the image on your screen, you must have a properly cali - brated monitor and the color of your image file must be converted to the appropriate ICC color profile for the media you want To learn more about how to cali- brate your monitor read Technique 1. m To get Calypso's Lightjet 5000 ICC color profile, gotowww.calypsoinc.com.InthelefI frame, click Colorsync Profiles. In the frame on the right, you find both PC and Mac profiles. Click the appropriate profile to begin download - ing a ZIP file containing three color profiles: one for CD I1 paperMatte, Gloss, and newsupergloss paper. Additional files may be added when new media becomes available and on occasion, new profiles are substituted for those listed here. rn After the tiles have been unzipped, they need to be copied to the appropriate directory for your operating system. If you are using Windows XP, use Windows Explorer to locate and open the folder where the unzipped files were saved. Press Ctrl while clicking each of the three files to select them all. Right - click one of the files to get a pop - up menu; choose Install hotlles. Windows XP automatically installs the color profiles for you. If you are using a Mac, the profiles will need to be copied into the Colorsync Profiles folder (HD\Library\ColorSync\Protiles). GeningLighhjet5000Printsfiom Calypso, Inc. STEP 2: OPEN PILE TO BE PRINTED Choose x- Open (Ctrl+O PC, Cmd+O Mac) to display the Open dialog box. Double- click the \45 folder to open it and then click iris- beforetif to select it. Click Open to open the file. To order prints fiom Calypso, the file must be either a Photoshop . psd file or a .ti£ file and starting with an Adobe RGB (1988) profile is best if you haw a choice. As the iris-beforehf file is already tagged as Adobe RGB 1988 and it is a TIFF file, the file is ready for the next step. STEP 3: CROP AND SIZE IMAGE rn To crop the image to the proportions of an 11 " x 14 " print, click the Crop tool (C) in the Toolbox. Type 11inintheWidthboxand14ininthe Height box in the Options bar. To move the Crop marquee up to indude more space above the irii, press the up arnm to move up one pixel at a time or press Shift and the up arrow to move the selection marquee up 10 pa at a time. Once you have selected the part of the image you want you can click the checkmark in the Options bar or press Enter to crop the image. a Now select Image x- Image Size to get the Image Size dialog box shown in Figure 45.3. Make sure that Constrain Proportions and Resample Image is checked. Resample Image should be set to Bicubic Smoother. Type 150 in the Resolution in the Document Size area and then dick OK to resize the image slightly. rn The image should now be 1,650 x 2100 pixels, which is 150 dpi for an 11 " x 14 " print. To view this information, choose Image Z- Image Size to get the Image Si dialog box Click Cancel to dose the dialog box. mage Size I While it is posslble to also enter 150 in the Resolution box to resize the image to the Lightjet 5000's minimum recommended DPI setting after the Crop command is applied, it is best to first crop the image. Then up - sample with the Image Size com - mand as you can then choose the more appropriate Bicubic Smoother method of interpolation. Choose View * Fit on Screen (Ctrl+O PC, Cmd+O Mac) and click the maximize icon in the upper - right corner or the image window if the document window is not already maximized if you are using a PC (press F if you are using a Mac to change to Full-keen mode). Click just outside the bottom - right corner of the image and drag the 1l-E ram Crop marquee up and to the left to include as much of the image as possible. 45.3 Chapter 8 Making Photographic Prints STEP 4: SHARPEN IMAGE rn As the image is now sized for the intended out - put size, you can now sharpen it. Because it is best to select Unsharp Mask settings when viewing an image at loo%, choose View * Actual Pi (Ctrl+O PC, Opt+Cmd+O Mac). Choose Filter > Sharpen * Unsharp Mask to get the Unsharp Mask dialog box shown in Figure 45.4. Try setting Amount to 2M%, Radius to 0.3, and Threshold to 0. Click OK to sharpen the image. To learn more about sharpening images read Technique 11 and Technique 39. STEP 5: CONVERT PROFILE TO CALYPSO LIGHTJET 5000 COLOR PROFILE rn To convert the ~rofile to the Calypso Lightjet 5000 color profile that was downloaded in Step 1, choose Image > ode * Convert to Profile to get the Convert to Profile dialog box shown in Figure 45.5. Click in the Profile box to get a pop - up menu. You find three profiles named with " Calypso " ; these are the three Calypso Lightjet files. Select Calypso LJ5 Glossyv2.i~~ to select the glossy media profile. (Later versions or new color profiles may have different names.) Make sure Engine is set to Adobe (ACE) and that Intent is set to Perceptual. Use Black Point. Compensation and Use Dither should both be switched off. rn Click OK to convert the profile. STEP 6: SAVE FILE AND SEND OR UPLOAD TO CALYPSO You can now save your file by choosing File * Save As (Ctrl+Shift+S PC, Shift+Cmd+S Mac) to get the Fie Save dialog box. After selecting an appropriate folder, type a name in the File Name box so that you don't save it over the origi - nal file. Make sure that the ICC Profile box is checked in the Color area - it should show the Calypso LJ5 G1o.ssyvZ.i~~ profile that you selected earlier. Also make sure you are not saving layers. Click OK to save the file. Your file is now ready to be written to a CD - ROM or other removable storage media and be sent to Calypso or be uploaded to the Calypso FTP Web site. Please visit the Calypso Web site to learn more about what storage media is acceptable to Calypso, about getting an ITP site set up for your image files, and additional ordering information Also, feel free to e-mail Michael Chambers at Calypso to ask questions and to request that an FTF' account be set up for your use. His e - mail ism~chambers@calypsoinc.com. To get more recommendations and tips on how to get Lightjet 5000 prints, visit this book's companion Web page at www. reallyusefulpage. com\ 50pscs. This technique condudes the chapter on making prints. In the next and final chapter you learn how to create and display our photographs online in a Web - based photo gallery. This page left blank. I f you want to share Internet, you should niques in this chapter fun. The first technique. need to know to create use on a Web page. 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ImageReady CS, getting the same results by using just Adobe Photoshop CS is also possible Adobe Photoshop CS offers considerably faver features for creating Web graphics than does Adobe ImageReady CS so that is why we used Adobe ImageReady CS As you gain experience with Adobe ImageReady CS, it will be your choice for Web image creation Should you want to try completing this technique in Adobe Photoshop CS, ... the widest image, and the height of the widest image As we will be using a Web page design for images that fit in a 350 x 350 pixel square, we need to add this image to a black 350 x 350 pixel canvas * Select Image CanvasS i to get the Canvas S edialog box shown in Figure 46.5.Type 350 in i z the Width and Height boxes after setting the increment to pixels Leave the Anchor set to the default center... 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Adobe ImageReady CS, which comes with Adobe Photoshop CS is all you need to complete the work -,taper 9 Creatingan OnlinePhoto GaUPry STEP 1: OPEN PILE Launch Adobe ImageReady CS Choose Pile Open (Cul+O PC, Cmd+O Mac) to display the Open dialog box Doubleclick the \48 folder to open it and then select the link-graphic.jpgfile.Click Open to open the file To reset all of the Adobe ImageReady CS palettes,... to the final size needed for the Web page, which is an image that will fit within a 350 x 350 pixel square Select Image Image Se to get the Image Size dialog i z box shown in Figure 46.3 Make sure that Constrain Proportions is selected Click in the Height box under P iDimensions and type 350 New to Adobe Photoshop CS is a new interpolation algorithm for downsizing images that helps maintain image sharpness... area of slice 1 You are now ready to use Adobe ImageReady CS to finish your image rollover Select File Edit in ImageReady (Shift+Ctrl+M PC, Shift+Cmd+M Mac) to send the file to Adobe ImageReady CS Alternatively, you can dick the Edit in ImageReady button at the very bottom of the display the image we've been working on * 1 Layer 1 Adobe ImageReady CS is an image-editingtool similar to Photoshop except... that allow you to move between images or the thumbn i pages al STEP 2: CUSTOMIZE THE WEB GALLERY The Adobe Photoshop CS Web Photo G l e y feaalr ture has done a tremendous amount of work for you, but you may not want your gallery to look like it was created with a standard Adobe Photoshop CS style template Or, you may not like the colors, or the location of the large images, or one of a vast number of... again to turn it back on STEP 3: CREATE A "SLICE" AND SEND TO IMAGEREADY CS You now need to create a "slice," which tells a Web browser where the mouse needs to be to initiate a "rollover" image to be displayed Creating Rollwer Images with ImageReady rn Select Layer P New Layer Based Slice You Toolbox to load Adobe ImageReady CS and to should now see a small blue line around the image and a tiny "01"... clockwise fashion Do not be concerned that other slices are being created (meaning that the numbers for the slices increase faster than you select thumbnail images) as these"automatic"extra slices are necessary.You can tell the difference in what you created and what Adobe ImageReady CS created; solid lines indicate user-created slices and the automatically created slices are indicated by dotted lines... Digimarc plug-in (Fiter Digharc * Embed Watermark) To learn more about the Digimarc sewice, visit www d i g i m a r c corn Or, you can also add a visible watermark or text to your image Adobe Photoshop CS' s Web Gallery has a feature that automates the process of placing text on each image However, this automated feature does not let you change text color or text location Therefore you may find that the . 350 x 350 pixel square, we need to add this image to a black 350 x 350 pixel canvas. Select Image * Canvas Si to get the Canvas Size dialog box shown in Figure 46.5. Type 350. recommendations and tips on how to get Lightjet 500 0 prints, visit this book's companion Web page at www. reallyusefulpage. com 50pscs. This technique condudes the chapter on making. Smoother. Type 150 in the Resolution in the Document Size area and then dick OK to resize the image slightly. rn The image should now be 1, 650 x 2100 pixels, which is 150 dpi for an