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[stephmaya]

Hi there

Not sure if this is a silly question but, I have a photograph that I want to put a coloured pantone box over part of it, without cutting the photo. Will it effect the printing at all if the image is sitting behind my square or does the printing process ignore that image as it can't be seen?


thanks

 

[signal49]

I have a photograph that I want to put a coloured pantone box over part of it, without cutting the photo.

Do you mean you don't want to physically cut your original photo, or you don't want to lose some of it in Illustrator?

Do you want to put a box with a colored fill over part of the photo, or a colored stroke around the whole photo? You can put a box with a PMS fill over it part of it, but it will cover the photo behind it -- "ignoring" that part, I guess. You can alter this with overprint/knockout settings for your PMS object. Same with a colored stroke. You can also change the settings to create the stroke inside, middle, or outside the box path.

Or do you have something that's already printed with a photo on it and you're going to imprint it with a PMS color?? If this is the case, the ink will NOT cover up the photo -- it'll show through -- unless your printer gets special opaque ink.

Not sure if I answered your question(s) or not… hopefully it helped!

 

[stephmaya]

Sorry I wasn't clear.

I meant that the printer I am dealing with does not want me to cut the photograph. I am using a stock photography photograph and am designing 4 panels. I am stretching the photograph along 3 of the panels but the section I want to cover in the photograph, I wanted to put a plain full colour picture box overtop, and that is what I wanted to know. If by not eleimenationg the photograph in the back ground, will it effect the pantone 540 blue colour box colour? (Not sure if this makes sense either!)

 

[BodesMan]

If I'm understanding you right - - you have a four panel job, the photo stretches out over 3 of the panels, the fourth panel - -no photo just Pantone color. You want to crop the photo so it just fits in the 3 panels.

You don't have to crop the photo - just place your image and shorten the picture box so it fits into the 3 panels and even if you don't and the pantone box is sitting on top of the photo, you are still o.k. -- your printer will make sure that the pantone box knocks out the photo underneath and just traps the photo and the pantone where they meet I would assume along the fold where the panels meet.

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