Generally, your images workflow depends on the internal organizing and capabilities of the printer or prepress facility, and of channel publishing (Web and other channels).
You can decide to work entirely in RGB mode, or work in RGB mode until you finish editing your graphics and then convert it to CMYK mode and make any additional color and tonal adjustments, e.g. in Adobe Photoshop. Especially check the highlights and shadows of the image. Use Levels, Curves, or Hue/Saturation adjustment layers to make corrections. These adjustments should be very minor. Flatten the file if necessary.
The editing may include creating of clipping paths and image variants for multiple publishing channels.
To achieve predictable printing results, you have to know the characteristics of the press, you can specify the highlight and shadow output to preserve certain details.
If you use a desktop printer to preview the appearance of the final printed piece, keep in mind that a desktop printer generally cannot faithfully replicate the output.
In GN4, all graphics with 'image' type is considered as raw, thus it needs to be prepared, while the 'editorial image' type is considered as prepared. However, this consideration is arbitrary, as you can decide to convert 'image' type to 'editorial image' on upload and on receiving,
There are at least two variants of the images workflow for the print channel. In the first variant, users crop images when linking them to an article or to a page. In the second variant, a image editor selects the images to be used and crops them before hand, so the editors and page designers work only with editorial images.
The step-by-procedure is
This is a description of a possible workflow steps when user crop images during linking procedure on the Articles main tab in Ted4 or Fred4.
1.User drags a wire image, or a image sent by contributors, or an archived RGB image ('image' type), or an editorial image onto the article tree of an article, opened on the Articles main tab, or onto a dummy image box on a page opened on the Pages main tab. 2.The image crop dialog box appears. Note: by holding CTRL pressed, the image crop dialog is skipped, and you go directly on the step #7. 3.User selects a suitable "crop destination". 4.User drags (optionally) to mark the interesting section of the image. 5.User do other changes (flip, rotate, scale, add notes) if required. 6.User clicks OK. 7.A "temporary" image, converted to 'editorial image' type, appears in the article, or on page. 8.The image gets is copied to the crop destination folder. 9.A Photoshop operator opens the image, applies necessary changes, or an automated process such as Intellitune or Binuscan applies necessary changes. 10.User or automated process saves the image. 11.User or automated process moves the image in a "processed image" hot-folder. 12.The Back4 service polls that folder and processes the image, replacing the temporary image in database with the processed image. 13.The image preview gets automatically refreshed in Ted4 or Fred4 with the processed image. Note
You can apply a watermark on cropped, but not yet processed images. See the Crop workflow with watermark for further instructions (you need a Tera Forum account to access to this content: require it on the support desk).
See also
About cropping and resolution
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1.In a listing, a image editor selects a wire image, or a image sent by contributors, or an archived RGB image. 2.User clicks the crop icon, and the image crop dialog box appears. 3.User selects a suitable "crop destination". 4.User drags (optionally) to mark the interesting section of the image. 5.User do other changes (flip, rotate, scale, add notes) if required. 6.User clicks OK. 7.A "temporary" image, converted to 'editorial image' type, appears in the database. 8.The image gets is copied to the crop destination folder 9.A Photoshop operator opens the image, applies necessary changes, or an automated process such as Intellitune or Binuscan applies necessary changes. 10.User or automated process saves the image. 11.User or automated process moves the image in a "processed image" hot-folder. 12.The Back4 service polls that folder and processes the image, replacing the temporary image in database with the processed image. 13.The 'editorial image' image is ready to be dragged in an article or onto a page. See also
About cropping and resolution
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Images workflow for Web and other channel
This is explained in the Preparing images for Web topic.
