"KatWoman" wrote in message
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this page has the website
I need postcard and business cards to match it
www.XXXsheilabarishvoiceXXX.com
remove xxx’s
I cannot get the colors to work for CMYK at all
The magenta/pink on black lettering is not a problem. Just make sure that is CMYK(0,100,0,0), and do the usual trapping, and you’re set for the type.
There are at least three issues with the Logo. Two are easy, and the third one you may need to just punt.
The first problem is the blacks – this is each to fix before the conversion with curves – before the conversion to CMYK, move the black end of the RGB curve until you get a solid, pure black background RGB(0,0,0). Keep a copy of the original RGB image for reference, and convert the logo to Web Coated SWOP v2.
The second problem I see is that after converting to CMYK, everything drifts toward the same dark blue-purple. This makes it hard to tell the magenta from the dark blue in the logo. The blue of the eyes is OK. It’s the magenta that moves toward the blue, being contaminated by cyan during the conversion process. Luckily, this is pretty easy to fix. Convert to CMYK, create an info point on an area that needs to be pure magenta, open up the Hue/Sat dialog, select Magenta in the drop down list, click on something you want to be pure magenta (the upper part of the ‘l’ in Shiela), and move the hue and saturation sliders until you get a visual approximation to the original. I made it a little more saturated than the original, more toward pure magenta. This will make the silver thread in the logo turn purple, which you can fix later with the sponge tool.
The third problem is one you will probably just have to punt. The image is a GIF file, and instead of continuous tones, you’ve got dither patterns for many of the colors. Combine this with the halftoning of the print process, and you may get some very nasty patterns – ragged edges on letters and so forth. So it would be better if you had the original art. If this is a re-do, look at the results with a magnifier to get an idea of how serious a problem this really is. The solution is to re-do the line art and lettering manually, and perpahs use the blur tool on the face, bling bling, and other details. The idea is to get rid of all of the tiny dots from the original gif image, so that they will not degrade the half toning of the final print.
do I need Illustrator for this? I don’t have IN DESIGN
In Design?
No – you don’t need Illy for this. There is some line art, but a lot of this image is continuous tone.
I have seen these colors or closer than dull purple in print so there must be majenta ink and violet. On inkjet I can at least get vivid dark pink.
That’s the problem – the dark pinks are being moved toward blue. You can address this by using a more pure, light pink with magenta and no cyan. I think you can get some good, solid pinks by moving toward pure magenta, with your other main color being dark blue. The trick is to keep the cyan at or close to zero for the pure, bright pinks, and add cyan only as you move toward dark blue. The eyes should probably be as bright and pure a blue as you can manage.
I have to re-do this job
and I have to find out how to do this for the future
I keep getting these print jobs after the websites are designed this is from the printer specs http://www.pkgraphics.com/jobspecs.asp
Job Specs ATTENTION, IF YOUR JOB IS COLOR CRITICAL!
If your job is color critical you "MUST" request a Match print