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I am a complete beginner, my questions are requests for advice.
I am working on the layout of a B&W photo book as well as a color one; this layout is going to a printer who is waiting for a CMYK file, with the B&W photos in grayscale, gray profile range 2.2 (which must correspond to the Epson profile range 2.2 of ICC profiles in conversion)
I work the photos on AFphoto, I understood that at the end of the retouching I had to export in jpeg (to have an image layer and not pixel), assign the profile to keep my grayscale profile in publisher. (and not just save the afphoto file before inserting it). It doesn't help me at all (I'm attaching an image) because after I put my photo on a transparent background (I scan them), changing them back to jpeg puts a background around the photo (I don't want one, neither gray nor white, so I can put a drop shadow around the photo "object".
- Is there an easier way to do this? (a box to click so it doesn't convert the color space)
- what is the grayscale D50; is it suitable in my situation? (read but I need to be sure: in afphoto profile grayscale D50, save as afphoto file, insert in publisher CMYK, does not move...)
I will have to produce a PDF/X-1a 2001 file at the end.
How would you do it "simply"?
Thanks for your answers,
Elise
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