Sometimes photos would appear a little frustrating especially when there is no transparency to match color. The reason to this is that printing companies have been slow in going with
flow to accommodate new images. They often stumbles through their conversions to CMYK which causes irreparable damage to images.In article When Good Color Goes Bad by Mike Davis, it enumerated some tips on how to seize full potential of your digital images. Davis advised to work with digital photographers who can supply following:
1. FPO images for you to place in your layout plus original raw files. These contain virgin pixel captures straight from high-end digital cameras, prior to any conversion to RGB or any subsequent processing/encoding. You will need someone skilled to handle them, though.
2. Properly tagged RGB tiff images -- again, a skilled operator will be needed for best results.
3. CMYK tiffs prepared by a knowledgeable photographer. When feasible, separations should be prepared from raw camera files, using commercial printer's own printing profile settings if available, or at very least using Photoshop's "U.S. Prepress Defaults" with appropriate print environment settings (i.e. coated, uncoated, Web, sheetfed, newsprint, ink density, etc.).
Mike Davis, author of said article, is founder of Colorprep. He specializes in making digital camera color separations look their best, serving printers, graphic
