Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [302]
The important points to bear in mind are that you must not color manage the target image when printing. The idea is to produce a print in which the pixel values are sent directly to the printer without any color management being applied. With previous versions of Photoshop you could do all this directly within the Photoshop Print dialog. However, Photoshop CS5 no longer has a ‘No Color Management’ print option, but as I mentioned earlier on page 692, you should look out for a special ‘no color management’ print utility coming soon from Adobe that will allow you to print out non-color managed print targets for custom profiling.
Chapter 14. Output for the Web
There is the well-known saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, and it is so true – pictures allow us to communicate visually with clients, friends and family in ways that words alone cannot. The Internet is something most of us use every day and having the means to transmit images has become extremely important to us. The most obvious advantage of sending or displaying images via the Web is its immediacy. Pictures can be sent around the world almost instantly and it is quick and easy to prepare a photo to be distributed in this way. The downside is that, unlike producing a finished print, you have little or no control over the way your images are viewed, plus there are many other pitfalls associated with the limitations of some Internet software. This chapter aims to guide you with suggestions on how best to output your work via the Web.
Sending multiple images by email
Email programs can accept single or multiple attachments of any format, but not as a folder, unless it has been compressed as an archive first. Aladdin™ Software make the ubiquitous Stuffit™ program, which is great for compressing files in this way. It's available for Mac or Windows and handles ZIP compression as well as having its own proprietary format, which uses lossless compression. A Stuffit archive will have a .sit extension, which requires expansion by Stuffit (which is incorporated into the Mac OS), but this can also be saved as a self-extracting archive. In this instance, the archive bears the .sea extension and either WinZip or Stuffit can expand such Mac created archives. If you are using the latest Mac OS X system, you can also use the contextual menu to select the ‘compress file’ option, to quickly create a ZIP archive on-the-fly. If the pictures in the source folder are JPEGs, then you will probably not notice a big difference in the final file size. But don't worry, this compression does not compromise the quality of the JPEG images any further.
Sending images over the Internet
Let's first look at some of the ways you can distribute images over the Web. With the increasing popularity of Broadband, cable and ADSL connections, you can effectively use any fast connection to the Internet to transmit or receive large files.
Email attachments
The easiest way to send image files is to send them as attachments via email. Email programs may differ, but most should let you simply drag a file from a folder on your computer into the body text area of an email. Click ‘Send’ and the attached document will be distributed along with the text message in the email. This is something that's relatively easy to do, but not completely flawless. For example, there is no reliable way of knowing if the recipient's email program can decode an attachment that has been sent via your email program. If you communicate using email this way, it is also a good idea to keep the attachments small. As a rule, I tend to keep all attachments under 2 MB, and before sending anything bigger I generally check with the recipient first to see if they mind receiving attachments that are bigger than this. The Internet suffers quite enough already with bandwidth being consumed by unwanted junk emails. So don't add to the problem by sending large, unsolicited attachments. If