Lindsay Walden Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Hi. I recently moved from creating albums for my clients in PS to using an album designer. The album designer requires that the images be loaded into the program as jpg. After the album is designed and the client approves it I then have the option of converting the album spreads to psd. From there I have been using my normal sharpening methods that I learned from you that have always worked great. The problem is that ever since I started using the album design software I have been having severe issues with banding and other bizarre printing problems such as magenta printing along the most in focus areas. The banding has been incredibly difficult to eliminate. My question is if I am degrading the quality of the images too much by converting the images to jpg then back to psd to sharpen before print. Could that be causing the issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Is it the same printer you've always used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsay Walden Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Yes. Same printer for these particular products. I had one of the same images also printed as a large print before I submitted the album and it printed just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Yes, the banding would seem very likely to be the fault of the album designer. But the magenta problem you mentioned - I don't see how that can be related. That just sounds like a printing error. Have you discussed these issues with the lab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsay Walden Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Yes. We've been going back and forth for weeks. The magenta only occurred in one album. It was showing up on images similar to this. You can kind of see on the line of focus where the image is sharpened that it looks a little odd. For some reason it was printing with a magenta hue. I was able to fix it by blurring that area. It also happened on the grey image on the wrap in the areas that are most in focus. But not on baby's skin. I had to blur the entire wrap to get it to go away. I've never had that issue before and have used this same blanket and wrap. I'm thinking it must be something to do with the album software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 May I see a 100% crop of the areas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Since I never heard back from you, can I assume you got this sorted out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsay Walden Posted May 3, 2017 Author Share Posted May 3, 2017 My apologies. Yes. I had to blur the areas on the wrap that were causing the problems. It wasn't the cleanest solution but I needed it resolved quickly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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