I have a drawing in Intaglio; like a waving TX flag, with blue letters in the white area (white area is a closed shape, filled with white and with white stroke), white letters in the red area (ditto shape/stroke except red), white star in the blue area. I need to send to a printer who requested a jpeg file, 300 dpi minimum.
Under Layout>Resolution, I chose HI. Under File menu, I selected Save As jpeg Maximum. I then opened the saved jpeg with Photoshop Elements to check the resulting quality. The angled and curved lines of the letters and the red and blue fields are obviously jagged. PLUS, the right edge of the image seems to be cropped to the rightmost blue letter, NOT the outside edge of the white field/stroke. I’ve tried different settings and simply cannot get a good crisp image to meet the needs specified by the printer. Suggestions?
What size have you specified for the drawing layout? (Under “Page Setup”)
I’d also save to TIFF as well, then convert to jpeg in PS. You can also up the resolution settings to way over 300dpi if you want to as well.
On 25 May 2012, at 19:49, Susan wrote:
I have a drawing in Intaglio; like a waving TX flag, with blue letters in the white area (white area is a closed shape, filled with white and with white stroke), white letters in the red area (ditto shape/stroke except red), white star in the blue area. I need to send to a printer who requested a jpeg file, 300 dpi minimum.
Under Layout>Resolution, I chose HI. Under File menu, I selected Save As jpeg Maximum. I then opened the saved jpeg with Photoshop Elements to check the resulting quality. The angled and curved lines of the letters and the red and blue fields are obviously jagged. PLUS, the right edge of the image seems to be cropped to the rightmost blue letter, NOT the outside edge of the white field/stroke. I’ve tried different settings and simply cannot get a good crisp image to meet the needs specified by the printer. Suggestions?
Frank, I know. I just grew tired of having to explain why Preview was just as adequate as PS for this kind of work, as most consider PS as the standard.
And yes, PNG is a far better option than jpeg IMO too.
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On 26 May 2012, at 10:07, Frank email@hidden wrote:
@ Susan: Why print a JPG and not PNG for instance?
@ Tom: Ok - you have PS - but for cropping, resizing change of resolution Preview.app can do all this and more for you BTW.
Hi, all. I’m not where I can double check settings right now. But the reason jpg versus png is that is what the printer said he required. When I get home, I can check on size settings and will try to save to alternate file type then convert as suggested. I’ll send an update. I realized my version of Intaglio wasn’t the latest, so have corrected that. Not sure it will make a difference, but certainly can’t hurt. Thanks.
Ha…easy to confuse words sometimes. One time two sister and Mom were discussing thongs on the beach…city had disallowed them. After about 15 minutes of discussion that flowed well, suddenly something didn’t quite “connect” in the conversation and we discovered Mom was talking rubber shoes, daughters were talking skimpy attire. I all fit until it didn’t.
I meant “It all fit until it didn’t” in earlier comment.
Sorry for delay in providing drawing size. Under Page Setup, the choices are minimal: under Settings, used Page Attributes (only other choice is “Default Printer”) and Paper Size US Letter, Scale 100%. Under Layout>Drawing Size, size is set to 10.19" x 8" to print on 8.5x11 paper. It prints correctly on my desktop printer, but the earlier Photoshop made me reluctant to send it to the printshop guy. I am doing some tests…saving to tiff as suggested, redid one part of the drawing and will try jpg again for comparison, etc. Thanks, all.
