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Editing Photos for Print: When to Convert to CMYK? Thank you for the great comments and suggestions on my posts about printing your own  Artist Business Cards  on my painting blog . I hope that some of you will be inspired to have cards printed (and I would love to see your results!). Loredana  asked a really great question this week:  "When you work on your photos to correct levels or balancing or anything else, do you work on RGB and after you modify it, you switch to CMYK to print?; or you switch to CMYK directly and you modify it later? I noticed a big difference from one to another when I watch the folder's preview and find the CMYK quite uncomfortable to watch!" The simple answer (with a few extra details):  For Print: Start with RGB, and do all or most of your editing in RGB. RGB is the native format for most digital files. Some editing procedures are not available in CMYK. Convert to CMYK as the last step  only if the file is being sent...

Program or be Programmed - Book Review This is a quick review of Douglas Rushkoff's book  "Program or be Programmed". Its a pocket guide to how to become a literate participant in the digital age. It's small, quick to read and well worth the effort. Douglas Rushoff's basic premise is that in "the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software.  It's really that simple: Program or be programmed." - a direct quote from his book. I couldn't agree more - is the population going to be controlled by mobile technology,  facebook and it's future derivatives (including  interfaces that blend man and machine  even more) or will you recognise this control, and decide to program your own alternative? As Douglas mentions, we have the capacity to do something about this, but this time round we could  relinquish control not just to other people (as in religion and economi...