Monday, February 21, 2011

Photoshop Formats

 This project is for making a post card where we can show the client different options. We first picked a copyright free image from istock photo.  Then I brought it into Photoshop and changed the size and the resolution to 300.  I made sure it was sized proportionally and not skewed.  I changed the color mode to CMYK and saved it as a flattened tiff.
 Everything is the same for this one except I changed the color mode to grayscale.
 This one is called a duotone.  They are always saved as a EPS file.  To do this is a few more steps than the past two.  Fist you convert the image to grayscale, then to duotone.  We are printing in CMYK so i had to choose a color from the pantone process book.  I chose like a blue-ish color.  The other color will be black because if you use two different colors such as red and blue, they will mix and make purple.  After that i just adjusted the colors as i saw fit.  I then saved the file as an EPS.
This one is called a clipping path.  I chose to do this with the CMYK version of the post card.  First, you draw a selection around the area you want with the pen tool.  Then you save that path as path 1.  Select clipping mask for path 1 under the drop down menu.  You should see the text of path 1 change to outlined type.  Then you save as a flattened EPS.

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