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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 8:41 pm
<don't want to lose this thread>
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 9:00 pm
Anyone have any tips for making a brochure in 2 color? Like with photos, I can use not only 2 monotones, I can also make a 3rd choice using the 2 colors together, right??? (Assuming the two colors blend nicely together--not like purple and yellow...but maybe like a blue and green or a blue and red????)
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, August 19, 2005 - 11:14 pm
What application are you using Julieboo? Quark Xpress or Adobe InDesign?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, August 20, 2005 - 6:47 am
Quark and photoshop...
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 4:03 am
Ok, which versions of Quark and Photoshop are you using?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 7:47 am
Photoshop 7.0 and Quark 6.1
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, August 22, 2005 - 8:32 am
And illustrator 10. Another question: I am doing a 2 color project (PMS 285 and 375) and I am working on some type (text). I am using eye candy 4000 (bevel boss) in p-shop. It seems to be using black for the shadowing--that will screw things up for keeping the piece 2-color. Right? So I better not use that Eye Candy? Is there something else I can do to make the letters 3-D, using different shades of one or two of the 2 colors? boy I hope this makes sense to someone out there! Wendo, does it make sense to you? I could use either p-shop 7 or Illustrator 10.
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 9:01 pm
Ok Julie, sorry it's taking me a few days to get back to you. And yes, I you do make sense! I gather you know how to set up a two color project in Quark. It sounds like the issue is a Photoshop related problem. You want to create a two color piece of artwork in Photoshop and then import it into your Quark document. The thing about Photoshop is that it's color space is four color process. There's no easy way to create a two color piece of artwork in Photoshop. There is a way to do it that's described in one of the WOW! series of Photoshop books. It's a complicated process honestly. If you use Illustrator, then you can import the PMS colors you're using to create the 3-D letters. I would say that if you can create what you want in Illustrator, then do it there because it will be a lot easier to do.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 1:19 am
Thanks Wendo! ...off to illustrator then!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 10:42 am
What is the lowest dpi that a high resolution picture can be at 100%? (for print). I want to say 300, but I think it can be lower than that. Anyone know? (hope this question makes sense)
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 11:46 am
DPI is only relevant when you consider print size. Otherwise it is meaningless. It's largely dependent on how big you want to print it and how it will be viewed once it is printed. So I need more details to help you with this.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:24 pm
Okay, specifically the image I want to use is 8" and 200 dpi. I really need it to be 11 1/2". Width in this case doesn't matter--as it is wide enough. Can I use it??? (I am fearing not...)
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:29 pm
So you want to print it at 11 1/2 by something? How far away will it be viewed? Is someone going to hang it on a wall or are they going to look at it up close in an album? Go into Image Size in PhotoShop and make sure that the Resample Image box is not checked. Then change your height to 11 1/2 inches and see what Resolution it gives you. How will you be printing it?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:39 pm
It is for a piece (brochure) that is going to be 11x17 folded in half--so it will be 8.5 x 11. It will be viewed close up by a bunch of older surgeons. 139.13 is what I get when the height is 11.5. A printer will be printing it in 2 color (if that makes any diff.)
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:48 pm
LOL - Sorry, it's just that your description of it being viewed close-up by a bunch of old surgeons isn't exactly the criteria that you want for a low resolution print. Generally speaking you can print at a lot lower DPI than most people realize and get fairly good results (don't tell anyone ) especially if you are doing it for a large wall portrait that will be viewed from a distance (think of how low the DPI is on a large billboard!). Given what it will be used for you are pushing your luck with this one. If you were printing it yourself, I'd suggest experimenting a bit at resampling it up in PhotoShop using bicubic and then sharpening it afterward before printing.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:49 pm
Well, I guess I will see what i can find at istock. I want a hawaiian waterfall. The one I want to use at istock is not very big and is not available at a bigger resolution. Which really ticks me off...
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 12:51 pm
This is the one I got, but dangit, is only: 4.0" x 5.3" @ 300 DPI http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/nature/landscapes/lakes_and_rivers/102440_hawaiian_falls.php?id=102440
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 1:00 pm
Well IMO, if it's just a waterfall type picture on a brochure it doesn't have to be crystal clear. I thought it might be some sort of surgical equipment they were looking at. So if it's just for artistic effect, you can probably get away with just about anything. If anyone asks, just say "I did this for artistic effect and don't you think it is wonderful?!?!" 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 1:03 pm
Good idea Jimmer!!! That is a wonderful solution!!!
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 1:04 pm
Oh, and by the way, THANKS!!!! And you rock!!!!   
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 05, 2005 - 1:11 pm
You're welcome Julie. As you know, I love this stuff. 
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 10:55 pm
Julieboo, my email address is in my profile. Please feel free to email me anytime when you have questions etc. I'm more than happy to help. Unfortunately, I miss this thread often because I don't see it or I've been stuck in the BB area and forget to check over here. So, again, yeah, please email me anytime! 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - 5:16 am
Thanks Wendo!!! I appreciate that! 
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 11:14 am
Finqwik asked a question in another thread about how to get the right colors displayed on a monitor. There are thick books on this subject and there are various instruments that you can buy to do this, but I doubt anyone here wants to spend a lot of time and money on this. I’m almost embarrassed to suggest the following approach, but here goes. As a very simple starting point, if you have a digital camera, take a picture of a color chart. If you don’t have a color chart, then take a picture of something that you know well with a number of colors. Then display the image on your monitor and see how closely the colors match and adjust accordingly. Now of course there are a huge number of variables involved, not the least of which being how your camera interprets the lighting, but at least this is a start. As I said, we could write pages on this subject.
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Finqwik
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 9:00 am
Thanks Jimmer. Yesterday I thought it would be really good if someone came out with a program that would help duffers like me to set the colour profiles to match cameras and scanners to monitors. Then today I just happened upon an article and it looks like MS are going to release something like that for XP. http://www.nikondigital.org/news/ms_color_cpl/index.htm
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 10:28 am
That is interesting. Color management is one reason that a lot people use Macs for graphics work, so something more from MS is long overdue.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 8:45 pm
This was Kim Komando's Cool Site of the Day: http://www.lunacore.com/photoshop/tutorials/tut018.htm How to beautify a photograph of a face in Photoshop.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 8:48 pm
Thanks JUJU!!! That is a great site!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, September 30, 2005 - 6:08 am
That is an astonishingly good tutorial.
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