http://cmykbook.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two levels of excitement here: 1) I sit in my studio in Virginia, USA and get notification via Google Alerts that someone in Vancouver, Canada has just put up a blog post about my book, CMYK 2.0. I'm like a six-year-old discovering a new flavor of ice cream when thinking about ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=178 OK, I know this is supposed to be all about color, but winter at the beach really calls for black and white. I'm working on a post about printing great 4-color black and white on an offset press. You need a cooperative printer and a few extra skills, but it can ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=171 While in Las Vegas at Photoshop World, I joined a busload of other photographers on a trip to the Neon Boneyard. Quite surreal. Old rusty signs from the Frank Sinatra glory days of Sin City. Someone had the visionary idea that these icons of American excess and fun should be ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=122 So, the cool thing about THIS post is that I'm at the beach with nothing more than a beer and an iPhone. There really is coming the time when the desktop computer will be a niche tool used for heavy lifting like graphic and video editing. But for the stuff ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=115 ASMP has just launched dpBestflow, the primary source for best practices information on the digital imaging workflow. It covers everything: image capture, image processing, file naming conventions, file handling, archiving, several optimized workflow options, and even CMYK! Richard Anderson and Peter Krogh have been hard at work on this site for ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=110 The CMYK Community Board is taking an indefinite break. Our user-to-user forum succumbed to the realities of life in cyberspace. In plain english, that means that the snotty, sun-deprived subculture of social misfits known as hackers and spammers have made life less wonderful for those of us who have good ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=97 Going to Photoshop World in Las Vegas? Enter the Peachpit Neon in Your Neighborhood contest and win an opportunity to join me and some other Peachpit authors on the bus for an EARLY MORNING photo safari to the Neon Museum Boneyard. It's a collection of 150 retired, but classic neon ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=89 The CMYK Community Board is a user-to-user forum that will become the core of our community. If you have questions, ask them here. If you have expertise, share it here. If you have a success story, trumpet it here. If you have a frustration, vent it here. If you have a cool technique, teach it ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=62 The motivating factor for launching this website is the publication of my book CMYK 2.0: A Collaborative Workflow for Photographers, Designers, and Printers. The site consists of two sections: a blog (the site you're looking at now), and a user-to-user forum called the CMYK Community Board. Over time, I hope ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=55 In mid-December, I flew to Indiana to attend the press check for my book, CMYK 2.0. It was the culmination of 8 months of collaborative work involving the editorial and design folks at Peachpit Press; the customer service and prepress folks at Courier; my own personal digital shaman, Kevin DeP; ... http://cmykbook.com/?p=34