Damien Symonds

Ah, bugger. Ok, let's try to figure it out for ourselves. Is it just the photo on the home page you're concerned about? How about the galleries?

Download the PSD Of course do it on your whole image. NEVER crop during editing.

Would this be ok?

As long as you never resized or cropped your PSDs, you're absolutely fine.

Oh yes, great! That's looking very promising.

Ok, super. It'll probably involve Multiply blend mode, but may I see the SOOR, just to check if there's any colour channel cleverness we can pursue?

Have you read this? http://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/02/trash-those-jpegs.html

Generally it's a matter of brightening with Levels in the usual way, then adding warming filter.

Oh Kelly, I'm so sorry, I have no idea. Maybe you actually need three shortcuts in your startup folder (or whatever the Mac equivalent is)?

Yes, they should be able to tell you what pixel dimensions to upload.

No, really. Please follow my instructions.

Actual black? 0/0/0? Or a colour that's matching the sign presently?

Just in time, I'm about to shut down and go to bed. Thanks, I emailed you.

Yep, always Baseline Standard. The other two settings can be a bit flaky occasionally.

Not at all. Take it any time you like. Levels is the only one that needs an application/approval process.

Order the new photobook, do you mean?

Yes ma'am.

First, find out the resolution that the lab requires. Most are 300ppi, but some differ.

I beg you not to wait too long to take the print sharpening class. But for now, the most important step is to accurately crop/resize your files before sending them to print. You can't just send any old file and expect it to turn out ok.

I think you're holding in your hand the photobook that's living proof of how wrong it is.

What did you decide to do?

How did you go, Amy?

Did you resize them appropriately first? What about sharpening?

Yes, 12 is always too big for printing. 10 is the absolute maximum to use, and depending on the situation, much lower can be fine. Can you give me some more information about the photobook? Did you set it up using a template? Or did you design the pages from scratch? Or was there no page design at all - was it just a matter of providing image files for them to print on the pages?

Looks good at this size. Just be careful of repeated cloning patterns in the trees.