I am preparing a document to send to print. I was asked to add bleed. Is it necessary for a no background document?  The image on the design will not go all the way to the edge.  Or should I add a white background layer and add the bleed to that?
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I'm starting to do designs meant for printing, but I'm fairly new to this medium so I don't really understand how bleed works and how much bleed should I specify for:   Business cards Large format prints (42 inches and bigger) Magazines   Should I extend the design into the bleed areas?
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I'd like to add an invisible watermark to each PDF document that I produce so that in case it leaks, I know where it leaked from. Anyone knows what would a good way for an invisible watermark be in a PDF document and how to add one?
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I have read on a number of blogs that the seams that you see in Illustrator from applying a pattern to an object is due to anti-aliasing and that if you print from Illustrator that it will print fine.  My concern is that when I save my work to PDF the seam shows up there as well. I don't want a client to see the seam and think there is something wrong. I also don't want to tell them not to worry about it.  I want it to look correct from the get go.  I am creating invitations for weddings and just started using the pattern tool/feature of Illustrator.  Any ideas or process I should follow?  Update  I am building a simple pattern diagonal line pattern like the one in this tutorial,
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I'm printing a tradeshow flyer and was wondering what type of paper I should print it on. I don't want anything glossy so I'm trying to decide on the following:   100# text weight matte 80# cover 80# matte   What is the difference between the types above? And how can I make a decision?
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I'd like to, first thing before writing anything on a page, add some vertical space.  Minimal (non)working example:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document}  \vspace{250px} I want to be further down on the page :(  \vspace{250px} Haha! Sucker :D \end{document}     How can I get the first \vspace to work, just like the second one?
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I have an existing PDF with a totally black background and all text is white.    Is there a way to get the text to print black and the black background to not print at all?  I have Bluebeam and Adobe PDF.
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I'm having issues with artwork I would like to use for my website. Unfortunately, the artwork I have came included with a white background behind it. I realize I can manually remove the white background using tools like the Magic Wand in Photoshop, but I've found that the edges of the artwork lose their sharpness. Is there anyway in Photoshop to just save an image out where the white background is picked up as the part of the artwork that is suppose to be transparent?
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Okay, this should be super easy to do but I just can't find the way.  I have a background image with a solid colour layer on top of it, and I would like to add text on top of everything in such a way that the filling of the text is the image in the background. I have tried selecting the text shape and deleting that selection shape in the solid colour layer, but it just looks wrong.   Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks in advance.
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One thing I still struggle with is using night photos in advertisements. I tend to avoid it but sometimes its necessary or requested.  I find it difficult on glossy and even worse on a newsprint to work with any sort of night photo.  What kind of prep and/or adjustments can be taken to a night shot to make sure it doesn't come out looking too dark, flat, hard to see, kinda lost on the paper.  Say something like this using a photo from Unsplash for a quick example, no affiliation at all with Milwaukee.    Or again with a photo from Unsplash:    When actually printing these can quickly look overly dark and muddy.
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Recently I've been getting a lot of work with T-shirts and they ask me to distress t-shirts. This is a simple matter if the graphic is only one color, but occasionally I will get a graphic that's 4 or more colors and layered on top of each other. I will then have to apply a distressed texture to each separate shape. This can get tedious and time consuming. Not to mention the texture file is huge because it's distressed and creates a lot of points.   Do you guys know of a way that I can place a distressed texture on top of a vector graphic with multiple colors and shapes and just punch through or knockout all the way to the back of the stack? I hope that makes sense.   Here is an example.     There is white around the letters and the filled in areas on the face are white as well. I want the distressed graphic to punch through all the way, but when I use the minus front, it ends up only punching through some shapes or it all fuses together as one big mess.   If it helps the t-shirts will be screen printed.  Edit - Thanks for the answer, it works. Here is a rundown of how I created it   Copied the graphic, and fused everything together as one solid shape. Placed distressed graphic over solid shape graphic. Create clipping mask of that. Place that over the original with the option clip checked.
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I am making my son's birthday invitation on illustrator. It looks perfectly fine until I save it for web so it will be a .jpeg so I can print it. Once it is a .jpeg it looks blurry. I am planing to print this like a photo. I have made things like this before just never ran in to a problem like this. How do I fix this so when they are printed it, it will be clear?  Just scared they will come out blurry when I print.
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Let's say I'm designing a logo or some other artwork that it's both for printing and screen. How should I set my ai file? CMYK or RGB? Align to grid or not? For instance, when I "save for the web" and my artwork is not align to grid and CMKY, will that affect the result? Do you create separate files for print and screen? Thanks in advance
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I'm using Adobe Photoshop.  I noticed that there are other questions similar to this one.   However, the reason I'm posting my question is, when I followed the instructions in the  about removing the background from a signature, it was not working for me on this document. I needed to select several times for each letter. Many times I was also getting parts of the background with the letters.  Is there some shortcut?  It looks like it will take me a whole day to select all the text, letter by letter.  Perhaps the reason the Magic Wand tool is not working well is because the text is handwritten and the edges are not well defined?  So, here's the picture.  (I thought I uploaded it the first time, I'm trying again now)    Basically, I would like guidance on how to remove the background and put the text on a solid white background. (If possible in an easier more efficient manner than selecting each letter one by one)  P.S. For those curious, this is a handwritten marriage document in the Hebrew language written on parchment with a quill.
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I cannot get background images to show up. From what I understand you add the background image, then set the view it shows up in and then use numpad to set your camera view, yet this does not work for me. I've tried the 'ortho' and 'persp' views, along with the 'front', 'back' and 'sides' angles using the numpad, but cannot see any image. Also, setting which view the image shows in has no effect.   I have also tried dragging and dropping a image in, with no luck. I understand I can also add a image to a empty plane, but even this way does not work.  On the other hand, when it comes to adding materials and textures to objects, everything looks fine in edit mode and the final render, so this is not a problem.
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I have seen such a beautiful preamble (got the PDF from on of my studentfriends and need help to create such a beautiful titlepage. The black bands are to make the picture anonymous, to hide the identity of my friend.  But I just need such a beautiful titlepage for my instructors. No one of us has the preamble anymore :(  Kind regards  and thank you very much in advance.  Is it allowed to ask such a question in this forum?
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When I paste text from another source with "Keep source formatting option" into PowerPoint 2010 I receive a white background, that I don't want.    How can I make this text background transparent, so there would be just red text on purple?
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We get a lot of questions in regards to what should my file spec be, what should I do with X and Y, how should I do my black etc. etc. and a large majority of the time we suggest to ask the printer which is an accurate assumption.  Even though I think this is an accurate answer I think we should have a question that would help educate designers on what questions they should ask the printer.  Knowing the right questions can help determine if the printer is professional and if you can meet the requirements.  So my question is when print designing what questions should I ask to make sure my designs are compatible and high quality for print?