Thanks so much! Stuart
On Jan 27, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Neal Hammon <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan is absolutely correct, and I shall add my two bits. > > Five of my books have been published, all by different publishers, and they > all preferred 400 or 500 dpi. I used Photoshop and Vectorworks, the latter > being a CAD program used by architects and engineers. It is somewhat easier > to use than Photoshop, especially for simple line drawings, but both are very > expensive programs. > > Neal > > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > > Stuart, > > The hardest part of creating something together for print is making sure that > your images are conveyed properly. For almost all color printing on coated > paper stock, you will want your images to be at least 300 dpi (dots per inch, > sometime referred to as "ppi" - pixels per inch) resolution at the size that > they are actually going to print and in CMYK color mode (as opposed to the > RGB mode that is standard for images displayed on computer screens). > > The problem is that most standard word-processing programs, such as Word (and > presumably Pages, although I don't know enough about it to say for sure) > don't give you much control over resolution or color mode. Which is why > serious graphic design for print is usually done in programs like > QuarkXPress, InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop. > > Having said that, most commercial printers are used to converting files from > programs that aren't really meant to output high-res press-ready documents, > so the best bet if you don't have a true page layout program is to ask > whoever is printing the program what their preferred formats are. They may > prefer to have you send them a mockup done in a word-processor, but then to > get the hi-res images and text separately so that they can use their own > processes to put them together in the best way. > > Dan > > >> Hi all, >> >> I want to put together a professional looking ad for a playbill, but I'm not >> a designer! Are there any simple programs out there that can make my text >> and images look wonderful? Perhaps template based. I would, of course, >> prefer a free or inexpensive program. >> >> Any thoughts/help greatly appreciated! >> >> Stuart >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
