Lots of resources have been uploaded to help you with this course, but basically if you have Adobe Photoshop you already have most of the tools you need to do the work. The exception is the Calibration Test Strip, which was created in Adobe Illustrator. It's incredibly useful, as you'll see!

Try the calibration process for yourself on a grayscale image to begin with, and once you're happy that you've got the hang of it, try doing the same thing to a CMYK image. NOTE: this won't work on an RGB picture, because some of the colors may change when it converts to CMYK. So don't even bother.

Check out the Color Settings window in Photoshop and try making your own CMS. It doesn't matter if you don't have data back from the printer yet – just imagine that the top and bottom 5% of the tone range will burn out, and fill in – and use that as a guide for calibration. It's the process that's important: once you know how to do it, you can apply it to any image, easily.

Finally, try making a PDF. Use Adobe Bridge to put the CMS of your choice in place, and synchronise it. Doing all this is, of course, explained in the videos.

Lídia Takács

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