My India project is about to start in its book form and I need some advice to make it smooth and hazzle free... lets see:
I have 300+ Imacon scanned 4x5's on my hard drive. They are of course scanned on different scanners with different monitors and different (ie. inconsistent) profiles... so I guess I've already made my first f***ups...
In the end it will hopefully be an offset printed book around 150 pages in a format slightly smaller than A3 landscape stuffed with full size color plates.
But how should I approach all the work in-between in a manner suited for print? I will do all my adjustments in LR3, spotting/cleaning in PS and book design in ID. Everything is scanned @ 2040spi 16bit, so I'll work on my files with much bigger prints in mind than those for the book. Ideally (I think), I would downsize and 8-bit them in the last breath before printing.
Should I use specific color profiles? DNG's? Should I have calibration done for my monitor? As you can read, I'm close to completely blank on this subject, although I've already made three photo books.
Any advice or hints/links to useful articles or the best (short) book on the subject will be greatly appreciated, thanks
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