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I actually just spent like £100 getting Laserschwert's latest version of the MI2 poster printed on canvas and framed. It looks fucking great. I went to a professional place and the digital art guy there talked it through with me and did a couple of test prints and stuff so I could see how all the digital and physical processes interacted and thereby control exactly how I wanted the colours. If you want that level of precision, either you'll have to get it printed somewhere that you just provide the file to, and factor in the cost of potential repeat requests to get it right, or pay more to go somewhere that you can play about with a lot beforehand but they charge you for the extra care and attention and expertise... Here's a photo I took just now, this is 70cm x 50cm excluding the frame. The lighting's not perfect here, but in person it looks amazing.

Yeah, color reproduction is a very fuzzy subject. I've found an online printing service here in Germany that matches my monitor's calibration quite closely, but it'll be different for everyone. But as much as you'd want a "correct" color on all the posters, I can tell you, it's impossible. A prime example is Monkey Island - here are scans of several different releases: Good luck, telling the correct colors from that.

If you're extremely fussy about colour representation then let me tell you: There's no way your screen representation (which will look different to my screen representation, which will look different to Laserschwert's screen representation) is going to be representative to what anything looks like PRINTED. Not least because LS works in RGB... which means your chosen print shop is going to run their own RGB -> CMYK conversion process on it before printing. That process is not standardised. It's just a best guess, and so each print shop could produce a differently coloured PRINT from same RGB file. Plus those vivid RGB colours can't be represented in CMYK anyway... they'll look far more muted on paper. Basically, if you're extremely concerned about colour representation, trying to make colour modifications based on an RGB file, and then sending that RGB file off to a printer, is folly... Sorry! Your best bet is trying to work in CMYK, but even then it'll take some rounds of printing to fully understand how your screen is going to represent what the printer gives you back. That all said, the good news is that printers these days are pretty good at guessing what you "meant", and... most people aren't going to notice. (When I used to design cinema posters and DVD sleeves, nearly 20 years ago, I'd have been fired -- or at least severely reprimanded -- if I'd sent an RGB file off to a printer. Even working in RGB was a big no, no. When I last worked in an agency (5 years ago) everyone worked in RGB, but did the CMYK conversion as part of their InDesign export process.)

Many hours later… I have finished my complete soundtrack for ReMI! For most of the pieces I worked the same way as before - only this time with the original files from the game. For the LeShip suite I used Jake's version, because it was already very good. The long suites are cut into single sub tracks, so you can jump between them. One after the other they should also be playable as a suite in a player without interruption/pause. For those who prefer to have the whole suite in one file, I've also put them in an extra files - as a "Suites" album. Strangely enough, I noticed a piece that I didn't find in the game. It is the 6th piece of the Monkey Island Suite (I called it "Unknown Area" for now). In the game I could only find 5 different pieces and not this onw... Maybe someone of you knows where it's from? Otherwise it could possibly be a cut version. If you like, you can download all the MP3s here (all in 320 kBit/s): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AE7dUTZGIyvSQ0fLFYmitdxBOKqQKhBd?usp=share_link Have fun!

I just had to Google "stans" 😬 Yep, CMYK conversion seems to be the final step in the process these days. From my limited recent experience even print designers work in RGB, and do the CMYK output with a calibrated colour profile. Makes sense because RGB leaves the door open for working with particular tools, and also stop you having to worry when you're doing adapts for socials/online, etc.

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This is wonderful, @BillyCheers, thank you so much for doing this

Same.

For what it's worth, I'm with Rincewind in this; even if it's not close to the original painting, the dark tones of the first restorations of the Monkey Island 2 cover adds wonderfully to the sinister of the escene.

Apologies for the massive post :')

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