Damien Symonds

This is SO important. Your photo will rock, or look f&*king awful, depending on getting the CMYK conversion right. You must ask the question, and don't stop asking it until you get a clear answer. "What CMYK profile do I use?"

In case you like it, here's the file so you can see how: Download PSD

By the way, I know you didn't post for editing advice, but if it was my photo, I'd use Channel Mixer for the wheat. What do you think of this?

Great! So just do that again. DEFINITELY don't try to restitch anything.

Gosh no! Just make the wheat golden in your RGB file. How did you do it last time? A Hue/Saturation layer?

I can't stress this enough. You must have a completely edited master file in RGB.

If you had, you'd know that these things never look crisp up close. It's perfectly normal. I'm just trying to put your mind at ease about the quality aspects of this. And instead, I need to make you appropriately nervous about the issues that really matter. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2011/05/please-be-wary-of-cmyk.html No no! Not at all! You're doing perfectly.

I need to see the RGB master version, not the CMYK version.

Neither of us have time to debate this, nor to change what you've done. You've already stitched, so let's persist with it.

Have you seen one? For real, I mean?

These specs stink of BS. This job of yours will be printed at about 50ppi, so for them to say they need 150ppi is complete nonsense. Plus there's no information about the CMYK profile you need to use. Have you worked with these people before? Do you have any proof that they're actually competent? And they're sticking to this rubbish about "50% at 200ppi"?

Have you talked to a FabriArt representative about this job?

By the way, @Jamie Brown, NEVER do edits in CMYK. CMYK is an output space only, you must do all your editing in RGB exactly as normal. In fact, make your entire editing process completely normal. Don't crop, don't resize. Just do everything the same as you usually do, as if it was any other photo.

I need to know more about these specs. Did they send you a PDF of information? Or an email?

Let's assume nothing of the sort. Let's get one thing clear right away - the camera you have captures easily enough pixels for this job. Absolutely no multiple-image-stitching required. Of course, you might have another reason to shoot and stitch, if your lens can't allow you to capture a wide enough scene in one frame. That's cool. But megapixels are NOT a reason to stitch.

What did you ever decide to do with this, @Shannikk?

Hey @Shannikk, have you read the Bridge Class yet? Have you been putting it into practice?

Wonderful. Next is the Raw Class, and then Levels after that.

You just gave the answer. So all detail can be seen, and therefore manipulated in Photoshop.

It's very difficult, but you will learn it as you go along. How far through the Layers & Masks Class are you?

Ok, so you mean as if the photo wasn't taken under multi-coloured stage lighting. In that case, the answer to your question is "yes". But I'm not sure why you'd want to?

Done.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "crisp"?

In the bonus module, yes.

Of course, that's what you'll have to do. It's quite a lot of space top and bottom, isn't it?