Digital BW, The Print

Hello Siobhan,

>As I  now finally have high speed internet I am having a web-site 
>created And need to prepare images for it. I am hoping that some-one 
>could give me some guidelines on the best way to do this.  

I use PS-CS and can share my method.  I would never claim it to be the
best, but it works fine for me. I use a workflow that has good
WYSIWYG, so when I'm done working up an image for printing, the
resulting screen image is also what I want to put on my web site.  So
the following steps are meant to keep the image visually as is.  

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1) flatten all layers, discard all alpha channels, saved selections,
attached memos, etc.  Get rid of all excess baggage.

2) change to 8 bit (all work is done at 16 bit).

3) insert copyright notice.

4) convert image profile to gray gamma 2.2 (I do most work in Dot Gain
18 or 20%, but browsers display with GG2.2 so my images would look too
dark if I didn't do this - so you may or may not need to do this step).

5) resize to desired image size in a single step using Bicubic Sharper.

6) save as a .jpg with desired filename (my work files are .tif).
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That's it.  I hope this is helpful.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm