Trade Show Tips

Adding full color graphics to vinyl banners will give your banner designs with greater impact and a much more professional appearance. Adding a full color photo to your display banner is most often the easiest way to do this.

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First, you should almost always brighten up the colors of your graphics. A good way to do this is to increase the contrast. In Photoshop the easiest way to do this is by “pinching” the levels. Open the levels window and pull the control for the shadows towards the middle (to the right). Then pull the highlights control to the left. This has the effect of brightening your light colors and darkening your shadows while getting rid of some of the “mudiness” of the mid tones.

Second, it is best to work in CMYK mode instead of RGB. Vinyl graphics and other large format graphics are almost always printed on CMYK printers with solvent inks. If you input RGB images you will be relying on your printer to make the conversion to CMYK. This is often not as reliable as converting them yourself before sending the images down to the printer. RGB can be somewhat misleading since it can display more colors than can be printed by CMYK.