Domestic charms I’ve ordered are high quality with communicative staff, but they don’t come with accessories (like jump rings and keychain rings), and also require some setup time to use the companies’ special templates. With domestic producers, you trade time and money for personal connection. These domestic producers manufacture charms in-house with their own sets of printers, laser cutters, etc. You can still export in layered PSDs, and their CMYK color space is much better than CSP. I often sing the praises of the Affinity series, and I usually use Affinity Designer-a one time $50 cost, much cheaper than Photoshop. You’ll have to export as an RGB file (PNG), then do the CMYK conversion in another program. I don’t know what they did to their algorithm, but something about the way CSP interprets CMYK color space destroys pieces faster than a rhino in a china shop. Time to turn your images into CMYK so that they’re ready to print!ĭo not export CMYK with Clip Studio Paint. Many programs like Clip Studio Paint have poor CMYK conversion, but thankfully, there are still some programs that have great CMYK PSD conversion, like Affinity Designer.Īs a result, you’ll probably want to stick with CMYK TIFF or CMYK PSD to send to your manufacturer. But as we all know, Adobe went off their rocker and jacked up the price beyond what lowly artists could afford. PSDs, or Photoshop files, were once the standard of sending acrylic charm files because they are lossless, can hold multiple layers, CMYK information, and transparency information. Manus may be unfamiliar with this format. It’s generally the best option for printed work even though few people have heard of it. TIFF is a relatively new image format that was made to solve all problems by creating a lossless, transparency-compatible, CMYK-compatible format. Unfortunately, it was developed specifically for computers, and can only be in RGB, not allowing CMYK. PNG is an image format that is lossless, or max-quality, and also can be transparent. However, it has some downsides it can’t be transparent and it is lossy, meaning it always compresses some information and is not max-quality. JPG is an image format that can hold CMYK information, which is good for printers. Want the tl dr? Export your file as a CMYK PSD, max quality. Here’s a quick breakdown of them so you know what to use for your acrylic charms!
JPG? PNG? TIFF? There’s a lot of image types out there, and they can make your head swim. Add any gradients or transparent printing to that layer. If you’d like to have a gradient effect or transparent printing on your acrylic (see below), then add a layer beneath your charm art.Add an x where you’d like the manu to add the charm hole.
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