Damien Symonds

I'm so sorry, I don't know.

I don't know what PDF settings you chose, so I'm not sure if you're affecting the quality. But you shouldn't be.

It's great. Nobody will give it a glance.

PDFs are so important for commercial printing. But when all that's being printed is just an image, it's completely silly to demand PDF. Because the image will just be a jpeg file inside the added complexity of a PDF file. As you've just found out, it's too much extra that can go wrong. Not yet, sorry.

I guess you just have to copy the leg fur along.

Gee, don't be sad about that. ID is fantastic for this kind of work. But what about the dog photos? You didn't use ID for those, did you?

What about the calendars? Are they CMYK?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/05/making-pdfs-from-photoshop.html

I do have instructions for saving pdfs, but they're specifically for files with text and shapes in them. Files like yours should only ever be saved as jpegs. I'm sorry you've got such a stupid printer I expect you'll find the big files are 16-bit instead of 8-bit.

Bridge is just showing the thumbnail size I guess. It's no big deal.

If your file had any text or vector shapes in it, it would be correct not to flatten. But since it's just an image, you definitely must flatten before saving.

You're dead certain about that?

I'm sure you realise you've done something drastically wrong. Your PDF file size is outrageously large.

Ok, so did they ask for CMYK?

I need more of the backstory here. Did the printer say why they require pdfs rather than jpegs? What kind of printing is it?

All good now?

Ooh ... tricky one. Could you send me one of the file pairs? https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/BellePhotography

@Karlie Kingi?

Any backdrop change is as easy, or as dreadfully difficult, as the frizziness of the subjects' hair. If you're shooting baldies, you're sweet

Can we talk about it in the Raw Class first please?

Is this the SOOR?

I can't help you unless you POST those images!

If you calibrated to V2 the first time, maybe try V4? https://ask.damiensymonds.net/topic/32032-xelite-07/

It should be enough to ensure that the viewer's eyes don't get drawn there, so that's good.

How odd. How many files have you tried? Do they all show the same problem?