Vermont ,through a dirty window ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
tee and green, severe dog-leg left ~ # 6 / Whiteface Golf Club (embiggenable) • iPhone
coronavirus ~ pandemic pictures ~ (embiggenable) • iPhone
RECEIVED MY coronavirus pandemic pictures PHOTO BOOK AND I AM quite pleased with it. The softcover book, made by PARABO.PRESS is 8x8" with 20 pages + covers, containing 32 pictures. In all respects, the quality of the book is first rate.
My next entry will delve into my ideas and "secrets" regarding photo book making. However, I will spill one "secret" in this entry ...
While I don't make a lot of BW / monochrome pictures, when I do, the last processing step in my prep for printing-photo print or photo book-is to convert the Grayscale image file to RGB. Which, on the face of it, might seem rather counter-productive inasmuch as, in most cases, the first step to a creating a digital BW / monochrome image file is to convert an image file from RGB to Grayscale. However ....
... back in the day, in the world of the printing press, if one wanted a truly "rich" printed-on-paper BW / monochrome image, converting a Grayscale image to color space-CMYK for the printing press-was the way to go. The difference between a picture printed with just black ink-the "K" in CMYK-and the same picture printed with CMYK-C(yan)M(agenta)Y(ellow)K(black) was VERY significant. Consequently, high-end fine art BW / monochrome photography books were almost always printed with color inks.
And, I can atest that the same holds true today in the online POD photo book world. I always, to include the coronavirus book, send RGB files to the printer. Additionally, all of my BW / monochrome photographic prints are made with RGB files.
FYI, unless you look at the printed page in a photo book with a high magnification lupe, the picture will appear to the eye as a "pure", color-neutral Grayscale image. And, BTW, if you are into making warm or cool tinted Grayscale images, the best way to do it is with a Grayscale image file converted to RGB using CURVES in Photoshop.
PS I made the putt for a par on # 6 and went on to finish my 9-hole round-the first of the season-at even par.