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Dom · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: Greyscales on Lulu

Hi all,

Getting into the layout for Wordplay seriously now, and we've just agreed to change the way we are doing some of the sidebar text. It's now being boxed off.

At the moment, we can either do a white box with a black border, or we also wanted to consider using a greyscale box.

Has anyone done greyscale with Lulu? What settings would you recommend, if so?

Any aesthetic comments?

Cheers,

Dom
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Newt · Avatar Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 1637 Location: Oldham Uk

Hearts uses Greyscale and it is fine. Both for pull out boxes header text and now new as of issue 3 highlighted Quotes!! If you want I've got a spare copy I can send you.

Duty and Honour had that a complex painting as a greyscale page background and that was fine.

If you are really concerned, that's what proofs are for!
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Dom · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:56 am Post subject:

Thanks! What level greyscale did you use?
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Tim Gray · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:21 am Post subject:

I think you can just set whatever tint you want. 10% black makes a very faint watermark-type background image; round about 20% is probably right for a box background.

This is one area where you can tell the difference between POD print and proper offset printing, as the dot patterns can end up with a bit of unevenness and artefacts. It's one of those things that can be slightly annoying as a designer but the majority of users won't even notice.

As Newt said, proofs. And if you're doing a proof, you have the option of trying different boxes different ways and seeing how they come out.