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Lightroom & Page background color

Lightroom & Page background color

2016-07-10 by Lew Schwartz

I'm printing a background color in LR to match my mat color. I only need a 1" border around the print, but I don't see a way to prevent my printer from coloring the entire sheet. This wastes a lot of ink. Anyone know a work around?

-Lew Schwartz

Re: Lightroom & Page background color

2016-07-11 by Richard Eskin

If by background color you mean a margin outside the image area to show through the mat, try a wide stroke. If you use Photoshop, enlarge your canvas sufficiently to accommodate the margin, select the image area with the marquee tool (make sure the feather =0), then Edit >; Stroke, select the outside and the width (you may have to experiment depending on your resolution), then OK.

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Re: Lightroom & Page background color

2016-07-11 by rdeloe1@...

Lew, another option if you want to stay in Lightroom is to use mogrify to add a border of whatever size and colour you want. For example, when I publish images to my web site, I don't like to put copyright information within the image, so Lightroom's standard watermarking tools aren't a good solution. I use a plugin to publish to Smugmug (the web hosting service), and that plugin runs the free ImageMagick tool called 'mogrify' to add a small white border outside the image area with the copyright information. (See any image at http://www.robdeloephotography.com to see what I mean.)

The ImageMagick toolkit is incredible and powerful, so it might be that you can add the border during printing directly from Lightroom. I don't know because I only print using Quadtone RIP -- so I export TIF files for printing.

Last tip: if you try the ImageMagick mogrify tool, make sure to install Version 6. The latest version (7) does not include mogrify for some reason.

Re: [Digital BW] Re: Lightroom & Page background color

2016-07-11 by Lew Schwartz

I thought of this. I'm doing both. Stroked border around the image plus the background color.


-Lew Schwartz
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Richard Eskin richard.eskin@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

If by background color you mean a margin outside the image area to show through the mat, try a wide stroke. If you use Photoshop, enlarge your canvas sufficiently to accommodate the margin, select the image area with the marquee tool (make sure the feather =0), then Edit > Stroke, select the outside and the width (you may have to experiment depending on your resolution), then OK.

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