> Bud,

> To get color separations you need to have
> the photo in a format like 'Tiff-CMYK' which
> is the one many printers use or accept. The
> photo when printed will yield 4 pieces of
> film, 1 for Cyan, 1 for Magenta, 1 for
> Yellow and 1 for Black. Together they are
> your color photograph. Maybe someone with a
> printer's background can elaborate
> more--mybackground is more from the catalog
> production end.

> Black & White printing is of course much
> easier. Some printers are now doing
> documents from pdf files. To use photos from
> a digital camera, you need to make sure you
> have a resolution of 300dpi at least. A jpeg
> photo is only 72dpi so you can imagine the
> resolution of a jpeg as opposed to a tiff at
> say 300dpi, would be much 'fuzzier'. The key
> is to find out what your printer wants and
> then give it to him (or her).

> Take care,

> Mike Winicki

I almost forgot...software.

I use both Adobe Pagemaker and Adobe Illustrator for creating ads. Pagemaker for catalog stuff. Illustrator for space ads.

Take care,

Mike W.