Hi!
Without knowing about publishing, I was asked to create and submit ads with my digital photos (and text on them), to high end magazines.
So far I haven't gotten complaints after a year of doing it but there are certain things I want to be able to do and don't know how.
For example, check that the final ad has rich blacks or the best dynamic range possible for CMYK.
It seems that after exporting the PDF from Indesign, I can evaluate it on acrobat (preflight?), which seems to be a good workflow.
I couldn't find however, much documentation about the full process of preparing a photo to be printed (photoshop and Indesign), dealing with ICCs, CMYK, magazine standards, preparing the PDF file and finally evaluating the PDF with the "print production tools".
In fact I found a lot of contradictory information.
Does anyone know a great book or resources about the full workflow of placing once loved photos in Indesign, all the way to analyzing a CMYK ready PDF (the soft-proofing or preflight- not sure what the difference is) in acrobat pro?
FYI: I save the file with ICC (sRGB) in Photoshop, and do the conversion to CMYK in Indesign when exporting to PDF, no ICC.
Thanks!