Reply To: Flattening Transparent Frames

You have no idea the horrors I see!

I’m cleaning up several complicated booklets that have been used by different designers over the years and I get to deal with them for the next 5 years.

1. Example: I have a 5×5 frame with a gradient and 85% transparency. Now the client wants me to place art behind it, but doesn’t want it to show through the gradient frame. If I try to replicate the gradient with screens…the results are hard to match. Maybe you have a better idea to deal with this.

2. Color consistency. 20% transparent Cyan and 20% screen of Cyan don’t always render the same (see JPG), so I am cleaning up documents that use both methods to define the same build in artwork that doesn’t need to be transparent. There’s only so much color management I can control, so the best I can do is maintain consistent CMYK builds. If artwork isn’t meant to be transparent and things get moved around/behind it, that can be a major problem.

https://i.imgur.com/SHFXyB9.jpg

Yes, I am a dinosaur.