Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Hi, I created the attachment (along with many others) for my daughter's birthday party. The attachment is just a screenshot of the PDF. I color matched all of the files in PS so the pinks and blues should be exactly the same as the invite colors - the invites ordered online came out nice. I ordered these prints on cardstock from an office supply store that offers printing services as well. When I picked them up, the pinks and blues look much darker and more brown than what I'm seeing on my computer and even compared to what I printed on my home printer as a test. To create the files for print, I flattened the PSD files and saved as PDF - however, I didn't save with a color profile of CMYK. Do you think that's the reason the colors look more brown and yucky in print and is there anyway to convert my existing PDF in RGB to CMYK? Are there particular CMYK settings that I need to be mindful of? I called the printer and they are going to try and match the colors to be more pink and teal like on the screen but for future reference, I'm wondering if I had something wrong in the color profile settings when I saved the file for print. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Have you read this before? Did the printer ask for CMYK? Was the first print run CMYK as well? 4 hours ago, Blsiegs said: To create the files for print, I flattened the PSD files and saved as PDF NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/05/making-pdfs-from-photoshop.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 I did the same with the first print run as I did with these by flattening and saving as pdf in rgb - maybe I just got lucky with the colors being okay. I just read the article you linked to - never read that before but wish I had. I thought pdfs would be treated the same as jpegs with flattening and never looked into doing anything different. Definitely won't do that again. The printer didn't say anything about CMYK - I even asked about it and they said that shouldn't be the issue. After reading up on it though, I'm not sure how it's at least not part of the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 If they don't ask for CMYK, definitely don't provide it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 I just spoke to someone else at the printing place who says they use cmyk. Can I take my existing pdf files and convert from rgb to cmyk or should I go back to the original layered psd file and save again? Unfortunately there are about 20 pages to print in 4 or 5 layered psd files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 6 minutes ago, Blsiegs said: I just spoke to someone else at the printing place who says they use cmyk. And? Did they tell you exactly which CMYK profile to use? 7 minutes ago, Blsiegs said: Can I take my existing pdf files and convert from rgb to cmyk or should I go back to the original layered psd file and save again? Go back and save them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 No, they weren't very helpful Any tips since they didn't provide specifics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 You have to hassle them and hassle them and hassle them until they DO provide specifics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 Just tried calling again and got no where. She said they were told in training that they accept cmyk but has no specifics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 Are these the settings you'd use when saving the layered file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 or should i use the convert to profile option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 You can't convert to a profile until you know what the profile is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 That was my fear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I don't know what to tell you, sorry. If the printer says CMYK, but can't tell you how to do it, we're stumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blsiegs Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 Thanks for trying. I was able to get a refund on the original print job and will try somewhere else if I can get them to give me their color profile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 How did this turn out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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