Submission to Magazine help needed

[john_aceti]

Thanks for reading this, I could use some help.

 

Finally my first dream came true, I have contract to photograph some

equipment for submission to a magazine. Although I have not

contacted their technical department as of yet I have to assume they

want my digital images in CMYK format for print.

 

I am using a Nikon D70 Shooting in RAW format

Have Photoshop CS

 

Now, I played around with color workspaces before and really messed

things up pretty good so I am worried about conversion to CMYK format.

 

Can someone please assist me on what I need to do exactly for

converting the photos from RAW to CMYK? I assume they will want them

in uncompressed TIF but not sure until I speak with them.

 

Thanks John

[Brad_]

All magazines have submission guidlines. You need to get that first. Could very well be

they expect an RGB file in TIFF/JPEG and they will do the conversion.

[ellis_vener_photography]

They will proabbaly want an RGB file not a CMYK file. They'll do the RGB to CMYK conversio

n to fit their printing process.

[g_w2]

Ask the publication what they want you to submit. Many can

be very flexible. Don't be embarassed . You should not be

expected to know without asking. Any other advice that you

get, unless it comes from someone who has already submitted

to the publication, would just be speculation.

 

Congratulations and good luck.

 

 

gw.

[aricmayer]

You can also check out

 

http://www.disc-info.org/

 

On that site is a set of specifications agreed apon by a ton of magazine publishers and

printers: Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hachett Filipachi, Quad Graphics to name a few. They

spell out exactly what they want and how they want the digital files to be submitted, from

file size to color space to compression to metadata. If you use the DISC (Digital Image

Submission

Criteria) guidelines, you will get a huge boost in delivering the best file for your

magazine's purposes.

[qtluong]

All the images I have

<a href ="http://www.terragalleria.com/client-list.html">

licensed for publication</a>

have been transmitted as RGB files, in jpeg 95% of the time.

[john_aceti]

Thank you very much for you help guys, I have yet to hear back from them but since I am going to shoot both digital RAW and Slide so I expect I will have my bases covered that way.

Regards;

John