How to prepare photos and images for Print // Adobe Photoshop // Print Ready Files Series
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- In this video, we will show you how to prepare your photos and images for print using Photoshop. Then we will show you how to bring them back into Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator. Converting them from RGB to CMYK and adjusting the size to what you need.
This is Part 3 of 5 from our Print Ready Files Series.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:55 InDesign Part 1
04:12 Photoshop
09:34 InDesign part 2
11:15 Illustrator
Part 1: Setting up your Document - • How to set up your des...
Part 2: Cleaning up Swatches + Layers - • Cleaning up your Swatc...
Part 3: Preparing images for print - • How to prepare photos ...
Part 4: Preparing your type for print - • How to prepare your ty...
Part 5: Export your file for print - • How to export your fil...
If you are a Graphic Designer and have thought about print, tried print, or are currently designing for print, you know that having your files print ready is a big part of great print projects. It doesn’t matter if you are working with label design, packaging design, brochure design, book design, poster design, or anything else in print. Using Photoshop we will convert from RGB to CMYK and adjust the size of the photons to what we need. Then we will place them back into both Adobe Illustrator and Indesign. How to This is a great step to learning print design and will be a great lesson for beginners in design but also a great reminder for experienced designers. This is Part 3 of 5 in our Print Ready Files Series. At Print Design Academy, we teach graphic designers to be experts in print and packaging design.
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Shucks, that's really kind of you! Glad you found it helpful!!
This video and series is GOD SENT thank you soo much
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Helpful video. Thank you❤
This is really good! Thank you. You can also create an Adobe PDF Preset in InDesign to save all color print output to CMYK saving you the time to convert to CMYK in Photoshop. Under the PDF Preset/Output/Color/Color Conversion: “Convert to Destination” Destination: “Document CMKY” This will help you keep your RGB workflows. Of course, if you need to edit to make sure it looks good in CMYK if you have a tricky image.
In Photoshop, you can use File/Scripts/Image Processor to batch run your images into the 300 dpi and size you need. Then only edit the ones that might need some color balance/tone/brightness, etc.
Thanks for the comment. For sure! You can set up processes in InDesign to convert for you but it’s in the event that you need to make any adjustments. Then you’d have to bring it into photoshop anyway, so just going there in the first place can sometimes be better. Appreciate you watching!
Amazing tutorial! Helped me a lot
So great to hear! Thanks for your comment.
This is the video I've been searching for! Thanks you so much! I just have one question. If you have to print a huge banner for example with a image on it, do you also resize the image in photoshop to a very large image? And is it true that 72 dpi is enough for a banner because you watch it from a distance? Thanks in advance!
yay! Glad you found this helpful. Yes, it's totally true that for billboards you can use a dpi as low as 72 since it's going to be so far away it doesn't need to be super crisp. It'll keep your file sizes smaller too
Please add one more point in this video, reduce levels of the black and magenta channel, as ink display on the screen, gets print very dark on paper.
Thanks for your comment. Depending on the image, for sure there can me some image manipulation required!
Hello, your videos are huge help for me. I have to prepare photos for print, but I did some other changes to them in different layers. Is it correct to flatten them and then converted to CMYK ? In addition I change to Euroscale Coated v 2.
Hey! So glad to hear that our videos have been helpful for you. Yes, it’s a good idea to flatten your image before converting if you have any adjustment layers in photoshop because you'll lose some of the capabilities since they're tailored to RGB!
Alternatively you can start in CMYK and then do your editing after, but you won’t have access to some of the adjustments. If you’re choosing a CMYK profile the one we recommend actually (based on advice from our color expert friends): Coated GRACOL 2006 (ISO 12647-2:2004)
Me too, but i live in europe and make a lot jobs for printhouses in Europe. they got other inks than US. Next step depends on specific print machines and material (paper, foil, etxc.). I in standard use about ten diiferent profiles.
Flaten image before converted - it depends. Some filters won't be work with CMYK. Then flatten will be necessary (but in this moment i save original psd and make a copy f.e. as a tif.)