Life Less Literary

Yay! Got my posters and flyers back from the printers… Boo! They weren’t perfect.

As I mentioned, RCS said the bride image was pixellated> Turns out they were right - they meant that the edge was pixellated. I fixed it before sending it off - couldn’t work out how to do this on the original (the Photoshop file didn’t have a jaggy edge, instead it faded into transparency), it seemed to be InDesign that was imposing the hard edge on it. So I feathered the edge, but this meant that on the poster my hand started appearing behind the bride’s veil. I tried different types and amounts of feather, until I got one which looked relatively OK, as if my hand were just visible through the translucent veil.

I spoke to RCS yesterday, and they said they’d had another problem where half of one of the men disappeared when converting into PDF 4, but they had managed to solve it. When I got them back today… the entire hand is in front of the veil, so it looks as though the two of us tiny men are in the foreground - doh!

It’s not a big fuck-up, but it is enough to be annoying. So Will says… tonight we order more posters. Damn, this is getting expensive.