12-19-2016, 11:04 AM
A bit more, depending on what your printing company says....
I had a look around and very depressing, all the usual suspects are heavy on use-one-of-our-presets or at best send-the-artwork, and we will print whatever you send. Very light on advice.
That might not be all the printers fault, most people have their computer monitor brightness set way too high. Image looks wonderfully bright, until printed. While you can get equipment to calibrate a monitor, for a basic setting see:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutoria...ration.htm if you can get the 3 grey squares set, you are in a better position.
Then there is the colour model, RGB or CMYK Not as important as it used to be. Many printers will now do any conversion for you but CMYK will end up with dull colours. A reasonable article here:
http://logosbynick.com/designing-print-r...-inkscape/
Based on Inkscape but equally applicable to Gimp.
Then bleed and safe areas, above article explains that. Easy enough to add to your existing image by resizing the canvas. example 3.7 MB
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1058...leed.xcfgz
End of the day, depending on what your printing co. says, for the final 'product' Artwork using Gimp, imported into the desktop publishing application Scribus, text added there. Some of your text is very small, and jpeg artifacts do not help.
I had a look around and very depressing, all the usual suspects are heavy on use-one-of-our-presets or at best send-the-artwork, and we will print whatever you send. Very light on advice.
Quote:..The card that they produced was appallingly bad.
His six chosen images were dull and dark, and his text could only be read under studio lighting.
His front facing primary image was just as bad, or worse.
That might not be all the printers fault, most people have their computer monitor brightness set way too high. Image looks wonderfully bright, until printed. While you can get equipment to calibrate a monitor, for a basic setting see:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutoria...ration.htm if you can get the 3 grey squares set, you are in a better position.
Then there is the colour model, RGB or CMYK Not as important as it used to be. Many printers will now do any conversion for you but CMYK will end up with dull colours. A reasonable article here:
http://logosbynick.com/designing-print-r...-inkscape/
Based on Inkscape but equally applicable to Gimp.
Then bleed and safe areas, above article explains that. Easy enough to add to your existing image by resizing the canvas. example 3.7 MB
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1058...leed.xcfgz
End of the day, depending on what your printing co. says, for the final 'product' Artwork using Gimp, imported into the desktop publishing application Scribus, text added there. Some of your text is very small, and jpeg artifacts do not help.