EmmaBrett

Say you had a photo you took and did clean process editing in Camera Raw and took it in to photoshop. Lets say the photo was of two girls and they had blemishes and buts needed to be cleaned up with the healing, clone stamp tools. To do this would you duplicate the background layer or would you create a new layer and select current and below and fix it that way. Think i have read an article on this but can't find it. In the agency i worked in the designers duplicated the background layer and did all the clone stamp, healing, spot healing etc on a duplicate layer of the background is this the "right" way? An questioning everything I was taught there and badgering you sorry!

It seems to me that a lot of design agency and printers don't do it your way. The "proper" way there seems to be a lot of things in the design industry that aren't being done the "right" way I am glad that I am learning the right way from you! Right back to the levels class!

Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate it. Would I follow this method every time I am sending files to print with copy and images? I am asking because where I used to work they used to straight away convert the SRGB file to CMYK in photoshop and said to always do that as printers "know" if you have let the PDF convert to CMYK.

yes I have the Creative Cloud

It is a 12pp 150x150mm brochure of my graphic design portfolio with images of my work on the pages with some copy.

I will be doing the InDesign work. So you have a folder with the clean processed raw files, a folder with the srgb levels work .psd and another folder with the CMYK quality 10 JPEG files and another folder with the InDesign document. If you wanted to cut out a photo you could still save it as a CMYK JPEG and place it in InDesign and use the cut out still?

Lets say you have taken some photos, clean processed them in camera raw, made them into masterpieces in photoshop and are using them in a printed brochure. You have the clean processed raw file, master srgb .psd file. You convert them to the CMYK profile provided by the printer, then which file format do you save them to place them in Indesign for the brochure? I have read many printers websites and they want CMYK tif files. Advice appreciated.

I am re reading my notes on the Raw class and on the details tab I don't have a brightness slider. I have tried searching Damien's website for the article about changing a setting in ACR but can't find it.