Brian P. Lawler, noted printing industry lecturer and prolific writer, includes among his works The Official Adobe Print Publishing Guide, Second Edition, which brings together the collective knowledge and wisdom of the experts at Adobe Systems in a simple, elegant presentation of the fundamental concepts and issues related to producing high quality printed output. The book includes succinct, expertly illustrated explanations of the basic concepts and terminology of print production, along with Adobe’s tried and true guidelines, tips, and checklists for ensuring a successful print job. Brian P. Lawler is a graphic arts and prepress consultant and writer based in San Luis Obispo, California.
I always enjoy the Fourth of July. I do because I almost always enjoy to company of friends, and some mighty nice fireworks, compliments of the City of Pismo Beach, or the City of Santa Barbara, California. I like the food, and the ooohs and aaahs of the crowd as the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, give proof through the night that in spite of terrible municipal deficits in California, we still need our fireworks.
The City of Morro Bay, 12 miles to my north, has cancelled its fireworks this year in deference to the endangered Snowy Plover, a tiny white sea bird that nests along the shores of Central California right where the fireworks are blasting away.
This past weekend was the California International Choral Festival, a biennial event hosted by the San Luis Obispo Vocal Arts Ensemble, of which I am a member and singer. I am responsible for the web site, much of the photography, and some of the print. My wife is the program designer, and I am the printer/mounter/framer/super-title man for the festival. At the end of each of the Festival sessions I returned home with hundreds of photos, and I built web galleries for the festival’s web site, and posted them for the public and the participating choirs to see.
The link in the lower-left cvorner of the photo gallery is an automatic function for sending an e-mail to me. I don’t want this here, as it’s more important to link
“ScottG” asked, in a comment on my last Hexachrome blog, about how I will be proofing the Great Hexachrome Experiment of 2009. The answer is simple: I’ll proof the job on one of the university’s two 9800 ink-jet printers on Epson Luster paper.
Examining two profiles: Hexachrome (a profile downloaded from Pantone’s web site) and the gamut of an Epson 9800 on Luster paper. As you can see, the gamut of color available from the Epson printer is greater than that of Hexachrome. The only area where Hexachrome exceeds the abilities of the Epson is in the brightness of saturated reds (top-right) where Hex sticks out of the gamut shape of the Epson. There is also a teensy bit of light green popping out
The audience sat in stunned silence as 200 singers joined together to sing “O Premedia!” in a rousing finale…. (I’m making that up. It was actually a work by Jean Sibelius called A Song of Peace).
Singers in the California International Choral Festival & Competition at yesterday’s Grand Finale performance. I was guessing that there were 200 singers on stage. I was off by eleven. Photoshop settled the argument with its Count tool.
How many? 300, you say? In fact there were exactly 179 people in the choir. The reason I know is that I use Photoshop’s Count tool to put a number on the head of every member of the choir to get a precise count of t...Read More Industries: New Products, Premedia
The title on my name badge says it: Audio Visual. In my vast amount of spare time I sing tenor in the San Luis Obispo Vocal Arts Ensemble, an adult community choir of some repute. We have traveled and participated in many international choral competitions, and have brought home some impressive awards and honors.
A view of the audience at last night’s California International Choral Festival and Competition in the Performing Arts Center at Cal Poly. Sell-out crowds are enjoying the festivities, and the music.
About ten years back our director said, “Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to put on a choral festival at home?” and we all responded in the affirmative. With years of planning, endless hours ...Read More Industries: New Products, Premedia
