Advice on printing watercolor art

[generalbatzorig]

I am a young designer with little experience in book publishing. Currently I am working on a catalog of an artist. It consists of oil paintings and water colors. I took the photos myself. But preparing the CMYK images for watercolors is a bit tricky for me. There are many watercolors with very subtle tints of color wash, and from my previous experience these light watercolors tend to lose their luminosity after printed. So, I wanted to get a little extra advice on how to prepare the best images for printing watercolors in book.
There are several different adjustment tools in Photoshop such as Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Exposure, and Vibrance etc. But I don’t know which one is more suitable to make the punch the colors a little more and add a little more contrast.
If you know any other links in this topic, I will be happy to read more.

 

[yoemei]

Hi Generalbatzorig, we are a professional printing company, about the catalog printing artwork demand, please feel free to contact us.

 

[longlivemedia]

How are the paintings getting onto the computer? Are they being photographed or scanned up? What kind of scanner is being used? Some paintings photograph better than scanned and vice versa, but usually how the image is uploaded to the computer is a big factor in how it looks on the computer. Other than that all you can really do is adjust the settings in Photoshop. If you had an example I might be able to help you out a bit.

 

[printchesco]

Not too familiar with printing out pictures of water color images, but I think that you could try approaching an actual printer and see what information you can get from them. I'm not saying you should print commercially, but I believe that a professional printer would be able to help you with the preparation of your files regarding this.