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Afli Sam

9 Years Ago

Printable Or Not Printable Colors_ Artrage

I use Artrage for painting and for retouching my images. But sometimes when i bring my work in photoshop i realize that most of colors will not be printed.
Who is experimenting with me the same problem? How can i assure that all my colors will be printed?
Lets talking about colors and the final printed work in general and also with Artrage.
Thanks to all

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

i never paid any attention to it. you can always check to see if the colors are out of gamut, but it is what it is. as long as you use aRGB - the site uses that, all the colors will print. however not everyone will be able to see your colors because screens are set up to sRGB and you'll get less green and blue with that.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Gregory Scott

9 Years Ago

This is a good thing to ponder for a special niche: unprintable original art, where many of he colors used are outside the gamut of what can be printed with ordinary printing methods.
Of course, the tricks would be choosing the right palate, and featuring the unprintable colors in the right place in the image, and making them essential to the color composition. I think abstract painters might benefit from this. I know that metallic paints and gold leaf and things like that could work well in mixed media, with the same result.

On the other hand, not so good for selling on a POD site!

 

Afli Sam

9 Years Ago

Thank you Mike
Really the check for printable color in photoshop annoying me.I usually pay attention to this problem. A friend advice me to unsaturate the image but this idea faded the color.
I read just now a topic about printing artrage works. I find it also helpful :
http://forums.artrage.com/showthread.php?21690-Guide-to-setting-up-a-Artrage-Paining-for-Print

 

Afli Sam

9 Years Ago

Thank you Gregory for your helpful information.

 

Edward Fielding

9 Years Ago

Good point Gregory. Gold leaf is a good way to stand out from the digital world. Holograms are another.

 

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