I have been charged with taking over a newsletter for our other shop. They print this on a web press. The lady there has told me that the pictures need to compensate for a 30% dot gain. Can I just apply the Dot Gain 30% profile in Photoshop and that takes care of it?
When I do this it darkens the picture on my screen considerably, is that just showing you what it will look like when printed?They also want the pics @ 85lpi and 300dpi, does this sound correct?This is my first foray into the web design world and the newsletter has looked pretty bad in the past and I think this may have something to do with it.
Trying to find ICC Profiles. I am a college student going for my BS in Photography. Our assignment is to take photo paper from three different manufactures and download the ICC Profiles for each of our papers chosen. Let me tell you this is not as easy as it seems! Where I can find the profiles for Adobe PS for different types of photo paper. Each manufacture only gives the ICC profile for their products. No scanned profiles are available.
I am having some issues with surface profiles on a dreffed alignment no updating dynamically.
Currently it requires me to set them to static, then back to dynamic and they update.
I am well aware of the issue of dreffed surface profiles staying static. I am using the work around of dreffing in the surface and sampling in the drawing using the dreffed alignment.
A friend gave me a bunch of newspapers to mock up and put on her site. Some of the articles are quite large, sometimes continuing to three different pages. My first thought was to scan them, mock them up in photoshop and have one LARGE page with the article that I created and people could scroll left and read the massive article.
Now I am thinking this would not be best for printing. Then I thought of the pdf multiple pages idea. Then there is the method of making the text editable and basically recreating the page like a newspaper article online.
I have a bunch of photos I want to watermark for my website.
I know how to build Actions. Made one to resize all the pics to the same width. Then I built an action to create a visible watermark.
The problem is when I use the watermark action in Batch mode, the Emboss command within the action causes it to stop and display the following dialog "This type layer must be rasterized before procedding. Its ext will no longer be editiable. Rasterize the type?
I have Photoshop CS5.1 and a Macbook Pro.Most of my colours are pretty spot on in a picture, it just seems to be blues where they are nice on screen but in reality (when printed in cmyk on a litho press) are much too magenta.
I totally understand my screen is RGB and backlit etc etc but wonder if there is a way, a simple way, and the best way for my screen to emulate what a picture will look like when printed in CMYK on a litho press as near as it can.
As I say its only the lack of magenta in the blues on screen that is the issue.The only way I seem to be able to get near viewing the image on screen so it looks more magenta in the blues and therefore know by how much to remove in photoshop. How to desaturate monitor colours by 20 percent in Photoshop colour settings and tip my screen away!
I'm using Photoshop CS. I want to make a text, and then I press the enter button. But, instead of a second paragraph, the text overlays. How can I solve this problem?
with practice over the last week, I've gotten pretty good at using the pen tool to make selections. I was wondering, when I go to use the direct selection tool to refine my curves…
The pointers sometimes get in the way when I'm trying to be as precise as possible when I want to refine my curve . Is there a shortcut key that I could press to hide the pointers while I am trying to place my curves?
when using the clone stamp tool and press the alt key to set a point it seem to create a new layer and just moves the layer arround. I can not get the clone to now work. what did I do?
1-if i select any selection tools( marquee or lasso or any )and then select or draw on any layer (including image also ) and then right click it wil shows to select linear or radial or path and add to shows no of copies and distance and scale input box in properties bar.
2- if i right click to select invert selection on selected image or layer and then right click it will shows to select linear or radial or path and add to shows no of copies and distance and scale input box in properties bar.and if i create radial copies,it will shows additionally inward and outward direction input box in properties bar.
3- if we select eyedropper tool using alt key and press + ability to select inner and outer ring color with feather value.
4- if we select isolate layer and then press p to shows full preview of all layers.
I'm having the "Arbor Press " as a project..I did everything except the 4 screws that we place in the Cover Plate..i don't know how they look like but i got a description of it that i cant understand "Cover Plate Screw ... (8-32 UNC x .50 cap screw)"I'm using Autocad 2008 & i have to draw it in 2D.
Alright, so I was using this site earlier to create a 3D park where, because of how I cad, was told to use the "press and pull" command on closed objects as they will be pulled or pressed into 3D shapes.
Up to this point it has worked on every structure I can think of but this time around it has not.
I am working on a Whale Slide for the park and, for some reason, I am unable to press/pull the parts out in order to complete the 3D effect.
This is the area I am tryin to press/pull:
Whale Slide Selection.jpg
Now, as you can see the entire slide is not complete yet. The reason being that I don't want to cad it all out only to find that it doesn't work. The "tail" part of it was avle to form pefectly fine but this part will not. I have tried the loft, swipe, etc. commands but they never make a solid object which is what I need. The lines are all connected and I've pressed/pulled angles before so I'm not to sure what is wrong.
Here is the file incase you need it: Whale Slide.dwg
I need information on a couple of issues. I create a newsletter for a public library in CorelDraw on a pc and my printer uses adobe on a mac. I export my work as an ai file, but he tells me that my images that I convert to a grayscale bitmap are rgb, the text that I copy and paste from Microsoft word have random open characters that are filled in (like o's) and are multiple blacks even after I change them to pantone process black u and that my black is not plain Pantone black (there is no plain BLACK in my pantone pallettes). I use process black u and 100% Pantone 300 U.
we do a lot of sheet metal fabricaton, using inventor and autocad to create the drawing for a laser then the pars are formed on a press brake.
My problem is showing necessary diminsions for the press brake when there are 2 or more bends. The first bend is no problem I can show the diminsion from the edge to the bend for the backgauge setting, the second bend needs a diminsion from the flange of the first bend to the bend line of the second bend for a back guage setting. That is the diminsion I am having trouble showing on the drawings.
I would like to give the press operator the backguage settings on the drawings.for each part.
I want to take a simple black and white image (not even grayscale) and use it as a stamp to deform a wood grain image. Basically a footprint in the sand type of thing.
I just completed and saved a book inLR4 and when I press Send Bpook to Blurb absolutely nothig happens? How do I get all this work to Blurb without losing it?
I've installed PDS premium 2012 and when I would like to use a shortcut it doesn't work. I have to push enter after pushing the shortcut. On the other computers of our R&D dept shortcut work properly.
I am using Autocad LT 2011 and when i press the hatch button it shows the comment 'not responding' at the top of the page and it takes about 15-20 seconds to repsond and when it does eventually respond it doesn't allow me to change the scale until after i have chosen an area which in some case proves a problem if the scale is very small.
I am a PS specialist, and former Ai user. My format is mac. I'm saving as EPS and PDF. My work gets imported to a pc running Ai and RIPP software. We are having problems with letters and etc. that don't show up, and also with objects staying as rectangles instead of letters and picts. Also need to know how to make the outline/cutting lines which control the plotter.
Does it hurt my file to design in PS and save as EPS and then import into Ai?
For some days when I press the open button or print button on the toolbar, Autocad LT 2008 does not respond until after two or three minutes and opens the window.
I noticed that this only happens when I have enabled LAN. The "plotter" that I use is shared by a print server and when I hit the open button, the default folder that shows me a folder on the server.
I'm wondering if there is a function in AutoCAD to 'press' (crush, flatten, pinch, crimp not sure the exact or correct term to be applied) the end of a steel tube? I've attached an image of a real piece of equipment where the tube is pressed at the end with a swivelling pin. Tube is 50mm outer diameter with a 3mm wall thickness.
While creating the company logo and branding in Illustrator, I've taken the CMYK values of our color palette and created custom CMYK spot swatches for each of our brand colors. This was for consistency, because a spot's color numbers do not shift as you move between Adobe apps or from CMYK to RGB docs.
My question is — is it OK to hand off a document that contains these CMYK spots to a printer for 4-color offset or digital printing? Will it mess with the colors or will they simply igore the "spot" status of the color and use the CMYK values behind it?
I'm working on the cover and editorial pages of a large publication and used CorelDRAW X6. Converted the pages to PDF and sent to press folks who use Kodak Insite to put the publication to press. They noticed on the CMY channels a white "X" strangely going from corner to corner on the pages. They eliminated it on their end before going to press. Initially, the proofing pages had all content within the bleeds powerclipped to 8.5x11 and then the pages contents were extracted to create bleeds, which left the dreaded "X" behind. I've been in the biz for 30 years and using Corel exclusively since it's inception (10,000's of hours with DRAW) I understand this is the way X6 treats powerclips now and I can select "none" in the context menu to eliminate the "X"... but who da thunk it would show up in a press file!?
I'll go to wireframe mode and proof pages from now on..If I say I don't want a powerclip anymore, I don't want to jump through hoops (or a handful of mouse clicks) to remove it. Any word on this being altered in future updates/versions?
