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Image in business card

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
March 6, 2017
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Hello:

I have an image that I want to place at the back of the business card. I'm using Illustrator.

What I've done is:

- open image in preview, make it into 300 dpi and edit size.

- open in Photoshop CS6, color mode: CMYK. There I get a warning:

"You are about to convert to CMYK using the

“U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2” profile. This may not be what you intend.

To choose a different profile, use Edit > Convert To Profile."
And I go ahead.

- open Illustrator and Place the image there in my business card.

- Print: color management: I see that the profile is sRGB. And in Summary: this document requires flattening.

I'm based in London by the way.

I appreciate your comments. Thanks in advance.

Carolina.

business card with image

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Planeta_AlephAuthor

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And do I flatten the layers when prompted at the end or not?

Thanks.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Is the print vendor located in London as well?

Then ask them about how to set up color management and which profiles to use.

US Web Coated almost certainly is not correct, since it's the U.S. standard, not European.

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Planeta_AlephAuthor

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they only told me what's important is 300 dpi and cmyk. I have to send a pdf.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Carolina,

You have to but the background beneath the other things not to hide them behind it.

I presume the PPI is the (minimum) required resolution of raster images, and that vector artwork is (best)/may be kept as vector, which is quite easy with PDF.

they only told me what's important is 300 dpi and cmyk

You should ask them to tell you some more, including about profile.

You can start on something about colour management here:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/creativesuite/cs/using/WS52323996-D045-437d-BD45-04955E987DFB. html

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/printing-color-management.html

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Carolina,

As I (mis)understand it, why not just create your AI document as you would otherwise (including Color Mode and Color Management), then just File>Place the image (linked) and Ctrl/Cmd+X+B to have it in the background (adjusting size and position, the former without affecting the resolution which will just change by the inverse scaling factor)?

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Planeta_AlephAuthor

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Jacob: thanks. I won't right anything on the image, do I still need to do cmd/X/B?

I still get: the document requires flattening when I'm about to print.

Thanks.

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