PS : je suis curieux de savoir comment Claude donnera son avis sur l'utilisation de Photoshop pour ce type de boulot, en anglais ou en français ?
The original post is in english, so I'll try to answer in english...
(your help will be welcome!!!)
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@ hakim2410:
Your files are simply pieces of crap... I didn't download the back file, because the front file is enough to see that you don't know how to do the job: sorry, but you made almost* all the mistakes and bullshit that can be done by a non-competent designer in a DTP job...
• beginnig with:
Photoshop is not a layout software... it's a software to work on pictures, and even if it has texts features, the use of these features for a Print-job is not as simple as it seems, and is far beyond your knowledge and competence!
• you forgot the bleeds...
• many non-professionnal "designers" have what I call the "A4 page syndrom"... because their "knowledge" and "experience" are limited to the use of their desktop A4 ink-jet printer, so they do all their "jobs" with A4 size...
OK, A4 is the right size to be used for a letter-head, but for a restaurant menu you can be more creative !!!
• 300 ppi... OK, it's the common résolution for Print-jobs... but A5 is a little bit too small for a menu: all the restaurant I know have menus in A4 size, so your A4 files need to be re-scaled at 141,4% to become A3 flat (A4 folded)... and the output résolution will then dramatically drop to 212 ppi, too low for a good offset printing, especially for a text-as-picture printing!
• all your texts are in CMYK mode... that's a problem with Photoshop :
- either you let Photoshop use is own CMYK black and your texts are unprintable because of many problems to register the 4 colors on a small size text,
- or you make yourself a 100% pure black for the texts, but Photoshop will knock-out everything under the text, making it unprintable without white strokes...
... a perfect handling of texts for a Print-job in Photoshop, with 100% black and overprinting is possible, but needs more competences than simply doing something looking good on the screen... and people who have these competences know that Photoshop is not for this job and use InDesign or Quark to make theirs layout!!!
• the biggest problem of Photoshop, is that it is not (easily) able to mix different pictures modes in the same file... so, as every crap Photoshop layout, all your objects use the CMYK 300 ppi contone mode, regardless of the real correct mode they should have been using...
This mode matches perfectly with the 4 little photos in the middle of page 1 and the background picture...
... but ONLY with these 5 objects, and not with the rest:
- the frames are 100% black lines, and should have been made in vector mode (the frames around the photos, and the frame around the page)
- the corners are black only and should have been in line-art mode at 1200 ppi,
- the "frame" around the 4 little photos, with flowers, lines and dots, is a monochrome colorized picture, and should have been in line-art mode at 1200 dpi or, better, in vector mode.
In fact, as for most Photoshop crap-layout, the only objects that are usable in your "front" file are those that have to be normally in contone color mode: the 4 photos (without their frames) and the background picture...
Nevertheless, they are not "directly" usable in one single file because of the frames around the photos... for a good quality job, these 5 objects have to be split in 5 separate files, to be gathered independently in an InDesign or Quark page, in order to :
- extend the background picture to the bleed limit,
- add a vector-based frame to each of the 4 photos...
... and all the rest (text, frames, corners, flowers, etc.) has to be re-do.
* I said "almost", because the only right choice you made is the use of a 300% ink-coverage color-profile: that's correct for offset-printing.
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As you are not french native language, I'll say nothing about spelling and typography. :siffle:
