Looking at print production - Always try and export to PDF before printing, Use CMYK (sometimes RGB - mostly for photographs) Colour images - DPI 300 min, 450 max, JPG, Image Quality - high. Crop marks and trim size, always include.
Package your files - it will save all your fonts etc. Info panel - look at the info and make sure the sizes aren't too big. Make sure there is a colour profile with your images.
Use bleed - always use bleed. Creep - the ‘v’ shape at the edge of the page when you fold the booklet.
Never have important stuff over middle spread. Pages always need to be in multiples of 4. Export as pages not spreads when taking to professional printers.
In class critique -
This brochure is looking very resolved now, there is a couple small points that were made to change in my collages, such as changing the lines to make them more clean in the collages, and take out that white space in the unwind spread. The lines also should be extended off the page, and the words on the back page need to be bold.
The clean font looks better than the other rough looking one, and if this was capitalised it would look much stronger than the rest.
The cover definitely needs to be cleaned up and changed, with trying different colours.
Tomorrow for teacher critique I must bring some totally different covers for this, and develop the alignment at the top slightly down so that when printed there is no chance of the text being chopped off.
Fay also strongly recommended to get this work professionally printed, as once printed properly it would look professional apposed to the in class work.
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