RETOUCHING

Digital photographic images will invariably need to be colour retouched so that they will print satisfactorily.

This is often difficult for the customer to understand since an image can have excellent colour on screen but then in print, lose much of the vibrancy of the colours. This is due mainly to the differences between the way images are constructed for display on a monitor and printing with inks.

At its most simple, colour retouching would involve taking cyan and magenta out of the areas of the image where there is a tendency for them to 'muddy' the image. Our solution is to replace colour build up with fine tonal detail on the black separation which directly enhances overall quality. In addition, this has the effect of reducing the number of colours in any one area and whilst minimising colour saturation or 'muddiness' also facilitates good register.

Colour retouching on continuous tone images is necessary for each printing process in order to achieve the best possible results on press. However flexographic printing is particularly sensitive and requires careful and extensive retouching to print contone images in a satisfactory manner.

At Corniche we have retouchers with decades of experience in manipulating contone images to print successfully and consistently on press.

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