What Are They and How Can I Get Some? OR: All my backgrounds go to the edge; isn’t that good enough? It seems like it should be just fine. You’re designing a magazine and you’ve got some cool backgrounds you want to use and you’d like them to bleed. So in your page layout document, which you set [...]
Standard Black vs. Rich Black OR: What do you mean, black that’s blacker than black? Huh? There’s no doubt about it, printing can be confusing. Take black ink for instance. What could be easier or more straightforward? You use the default black color swatch and you’re good to go…right? The answer is a definite maybe. Let’s shed some [...]
Understanding the Difference without Using the Nasty Math OR: My Photos are all 300 dpi; why do some look so bad? In a perfect world, we would always scan our photos or take our photos at 300 dpi and use our photos at 100%. In the real world, though, we’re often forced to scale our [...]
