Dissolve Layers Not Showing in Print Set Up- Appears Flat

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February 7, 2022
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I am trying to print an image where I used several dissolve layers on PS that appear to have gold speckles, but when I go to print them the speckles don't really show up on the image in the Professional Print & Layout for my canon pro 2100 printer. I don't want to waste ink and paper unless I think they will appear on the image. How can I make sure, since the image looks rather flat, even though I didn't flatten or merge the image, and when I did it was even worse. Any suggestions? Thanks! Diane

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Michael Bullo

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Hi Diane. Do the gold speckles sit on top of a dark background? Perhaps the ink is expanding slightly on the page and covering up the speckles.

Try making the speckles larger and more obvious on screen. They may better survive the printing process this way.

Are you printing on high quality paper designed for images? If not, you might want to explore this.

To save ink you might also want to do test prints where you print just a portion of your entire image. One quick method to do this would be to duplicate your image and then heavily crop it.

D

Diane Epstein ArtAuthor

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Hi Michael,

I am just seeing your kind response now after finding it in my spam folder. Thanks for reaching out. I will try to make the glitter a bit bigger, or more prominent, if I don't want to lose the other more blue tone colors in the image.

I always use the highest quality paper. Mostly hannemuhl German Etching fine art paper, and a new toll just arrived on my doorstep this evening. The gold sparkles are a top layer, but as soon as I flatten the image for printing then I don't see them, and if I don't flatten then once I see it in the Professional Print and Layput as the sample print on the screen, it also looks flat, with no sparkle, so I'm concerned the golden glitter won't show at all. I know I should try to print a sample but being that it's 24" wide paper I will end up wasting a lot of my precious roll.

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

24" wide, fine art paper!? That's awesome.

As for printing a test, could you try printing on lower quality paper while you tinker with the size of the gold sparkles?

Could you please elaborate on how/why are you losing the gold sparkles? It sounds like you are saying that when you flatten the layers within the image it looks different. In case it helps, this video of mine may help...

Create a Merged Copy of all Photoshop Layers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L70IZeRtDo

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