Damien Symonds

No, I'm reluctant to pin any "general rules" to any of this. It depends on each printer's requirements.

Let's talk again after you've compared the prints in good light.

Hooray!!!

Ok, can you do this for me?

You mentioned "when I post to social media it looks darker and greyer". May I have a link to one of those?

Winner!! It looks great. And as far as I can tell, it's technically perfect. I can't foresee any problems when you send them this file.

And these are the instructions you're following? Including the troubleshooting section?

Hi Jaimie, which calibrator do you have? It's vitally important to ONLY compare your images in Photoshop, or another Adobe program. You can't trust viewers like Preview to be properly colour-managed.

No, sorry, ditch it. 1/50th was too slow, eh?

Interesting. Were you opening them from Bridge?

Is it ok?

Oh, see how the leading field is blank? That shouldn't be. Try not to vary leadings if you can.

I would try this method first.

I was sitting in the movie theatre (Smurfs, don't bother, it's naff) and I had an epiphany. It's not the leading, it's probably the font size! Somewhere in that paragraph will be an invisible space with a different font size. To check, hit Cmd A to select all the text in the box. Then look at the size field. If there's a number in the box, I'm wrong. But if there's a blank space, I'm right.

Ah, maybe I'm imagining it.

No, the "Celebrate" paragraph still seems to have different spacing to the others. In that case, I don't think there's enough space! Have you printed out the design on your own home printer to test writing on it?

Got it, thanks. Just to check - did you do the text-to-shape thing? I'm not at my regular computer to check at the moment. The colour is absolutely perfect now. Spot on. However, I have to say that the nerd in me is still troubled by the line spacing. The spacing in the "Celebrate your relationships" paragraph looks different from the others. And I think the space is too great between the first line ("This gift voucher ...") and the rest.

Sorry mate, do you mind sending it again? It's not opening for some reason. Saying "Invalid file" or some such.

Gosh, that's pretty good!

Oh, great! I urge you to run CleanMyMac once a month. It's just good housekeeping, you know?

Thanks, fixed.

Gosh, how annoying! Every other tool is ok? You haven't noticed any other problems? Could you open a photo, choose your Crop Tool, (don't attempt to crop with it) and take a screenshot of your whole screen for me?

Yes, click on those little arrow thingies. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2012/10/using-photoshops-gradient-layer.html

Then it must be the gradient colours on the gradient overlay.

Ok, it's better, but not quite safe yet. The text on the blue block had better, for safety, contain 10% cyan and 3% magenta, so it blends seamlessly with the blue block. The "GIFT VOUCHER" text still contains all colours. It needs to be made of K only. The text at the top is perfect.