Invitation Design for Events

How to prepare files for printing

A course by María Design (The Visual Romance) , Graphic Designer and Art Director

Graphic Designer and Art Director. Madrid, Spain.
Joined November 2009
99% positive reviews (176)
5,404 students
Audio: Spanish, English
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About the video: How to prepare files for printing

Overview

“In this lesson, I will explain to you how we should prepare the document to send it to the press. We will do a print test to check legibility, sizes, and possible folds, and we will prepare the final artwork. Later, I will show you how you should ask the printer for the budget since it is very important that you have good communication. ”

In this video lesson María Design (The Visual Romance) addresses the topic: How to prepare files for printing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Invitation Design for Events. Learn how to design eye-catching event invitations that your guests will love.

Partial transcription of the video

“How to prepare files for printing When the client has given you the OK, we can send the files to the printer. Now we will see how we have to ask for the budget and how to prepare the final arts to print correctly. Let's see it. I will first check that all images and the illustrations are ready to print. To do this I go to Photoshop and check in Image the color mode is CMYK and if not, I would change it. And I check that the image size is three hundred pixels. I did it with all the illustrations. Then I hit Save As. I created a folder called Final Arts, where I put the files to print. In Lin...”

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Course summary for: Invitation Design for Events

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (176)
  • 5404 students
  • 5 units
  • 16 lessons (2h 39m)
  • 12 downloads
  • Category

    Design
  • Software

    Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Branding & Identity, Events, Graphic Design, Stationery Design

María Design (The Visual Romance)

María Design (The Visual Romance)
A course by María Design (The Visual Romance)

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Graphic Designer and Art Director

María Design is a graphic designer, art director, and founder of The Visual Romance, a design studio specialized in stationery, wedding websites, and other types of graphic design work.

In her projects, she enjoys caring for every detail and believes that a good concept is the foundation of great design. Her work has been published in editorials like Vogue, étapes, and AIGA, and in design books from Gestalten, Counter-Print, and others.


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Invitation Design for Events. Design course by María Design (The Visual Romance)

Invitation Design for Events

A course by María Design (The Visual Romance)
Graphic Designer and Art Director. Madrid, Spain.
Joined November 2009
  • 99% positive reviews (176)
  • 5,404 students