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Hello, i have a image which i will send to a site, to get printed as vinyl stickers. The site want the image to be in CMYK (no specifik profile) and 300 dpi. I tried to convert this file to CMYK and 300dpi the last days, but it's really hard for me, since i have no knowledge/experience in this.
I believe i won't be able to fix this by myself, since i don't have adobe InDesign which seem to be the tool for this.
Here's the image: http://m.imgur.com/l7E3DqO
If someone could convert it to CMYK with 300 dpi, that would be great.
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Do you have Photoshop?
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Only "photoshop fix", on ipad.
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What are the dimensions of your image in pixels?
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3072x3072
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Your image is the correct size for printing 10cm x 10cm at 300PPI.
Ask your printer if they can convert it to CMYK.
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Great, but the picture won't be cutted as in your print screen right?
it's a site which i will order from, and they wan't the image to be in cmyk and 300dpi, so i believe i will have to do that job by myself, but it's hard with no expedience.. But if i got the dimensions right, it's "only" the cmyk left..
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3072x3072
You can use InDesign to convert and resample the image.
Make a new document that measures 10cm x 10cm
Add a 10cm x 10cm frame fit to the page
Select the frame and place the image
Choose Object>Fitting>Fit Content Proportionally
Export to PDF using the PDF/X-1a preset
PDF/X-1a forces all color to CMYK and downsamples images to 300ppi. You can use the exported PDF in your design layout
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The OP has stated he doesn't have InDesign or Photoshop.
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Thanks, I missed that.
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Just so you know, the tool is Photoshop not InDesign for images. But this is pointless. You cannot make a better picture by increasing resolution. If you only have 72 dpi this is useless.
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My stickers will be in 10x10cm, i just read that the image should be in 1181x1181px for 300dpi, in thst dimension.
From the beggining i though more pixels = more dpi.
Anyways, here's the picture in 1181x1181px Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
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Is this image/file in CMYK and 300 dpi? Will it work?
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Well the color mode in this is example is CMYK, but it's too large (compared with the previous version) though the printer should be able to reduce the size. By the way, should bleed be added to the image?
I can't say whether it will "work" the printer should decide. By the way, what process is being used – is it litho or screen printing?
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No bleed will be added. I don't know which process they will use..
This is what the site says:
"designs must be set to the correct dimensions and of 300dpi or more and in cmyk"
Do i have to change it to 1181x1181 to get the correct dimensions?
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Try and upload it "as is" and see if it's accepted. If you can't add bleed they'll probably enlarge it a little to allow for bleed which means they'll trim a bit off each edge of the artwork, are you prepared to accept this?
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It is Ppi by the way, ppi=pixels per inch. Just saying 😉