advice on pp: In my recent post "My turn to brag" I posted the ad which I designed and wrote for Am. Automobile Club of America" magazine. The artwork will be used for dash plaques for...

ph0t0bug

In my recent post "My turn to brag" I posted the ad which I designed and wrote for Am. Automobile Club of America" magazine. The artwork will be used for dash plaques for entrants, and the person who is making the ad asked for the original ad in the format in which it was created. Well, it is in .png format, which allows you to move, change, resize,etc individual components of the work, which he needs to do for the plaques,but he was unable to open .png files and the program I used won't let me send it in that form. To make matters worse they stopped producing the software several years ago so there is no support. Does anyone know how I can send him the artwork in any other format that can be changed or if there is anything he can download to allow him to open it? Thanks so much for any help.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

There are two PNG formats: PNG-8 and PNG-24. Which is yours?
Read more here: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/web-designers-guide-to-png-image-format

ph0t0bug

I have no idea. In all the years I've used that software I never knew there was more than one. How do you tell?

Nikonian72 wrote:

There are two PNG formats: PNG-8 and PNG-24. Which is yours?
Read more here: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/web-designers-guide-to-png-image-format

ph0t0bug

Thank you Nikonian. I will save that info and talk to him about it, but it seems to me it is more about color and size than the ability to change components around. Maybe I am reading it wrong or misunderstanding some of it. Perhaps when we talk we can work it out together. Appreciate your help very much.

Picdude Loc: Ohio

I frequently save images I'm working on as both .jpg and .tiff. The .tiff format saves all the layers I used to create the image so if I want to alter it again after some thought I don't have to start completely over. Tiff is a pretty universal format to use between software packages and may be an option if your software can save in that format.

ph0t0bug

Thank you for all the info. If I email a tff can the components be moved or changed by the recipient?

ph0t0bug

I emailed the tff to myself and was able to open it, but not to make changes. I don't have photoshop, does it allow changes to tff?

Picdude Loc: Ohio

I do have Photoshop and it does allow me to do changes to my .tiff image, possibly because, as often as possible, I perform each change as a separate layer. I have not tried to e-mail a .tiff file to myself yet.

ph0t0bug

Thank you again. Would you be able to make changes if it was not created in Photoshop?

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

I use Photoshop CS6 and it can save in PNG format and open it as well. I don't know if its PNG is compatible with yours. If you send me a file in PNG I'll try. My email is eicobin@yahoo.com

Picdude Loc: Ohio

ph0t0bug wrote:

Thank you again. Would you be able to make changes if it was not created in Photoshop?

I would have to believe yes. I did try to send a .tiff image I worked on to myself, and was immediately shut down because the file size was too big for the e-mail server. Another option you may want to try, and I know a lot of people go this route, is to start an account with an off-site storage place like dropbox. The account is free for a decent amount of storage, and you use it just like an external hard drive. If you and the magazine editor both have the password you can pass sizable documents back and forth almost as easily as handing a thumb-drive back and forth, probably easier than e-mail. You may even want to try transferring your .png file in this manor to make sure it did not lose something or get corrupted in the e-mail process.

ph0t0bug

Dropbox is a great tool. But wouldn't he have to also have dropbox? I suppose I could ask him to download it for himself. I will be giving him a call in a few minutes, so being in the printing business, surely he can come up with something.Thanks so much to all who've helped. I have learned quite a bit from you all.

Picdude wrote:

I would have to believe yes. I did try to send a .tiff image I worked on to myself, and was immediately shut down because the file size was too big for the e-mail server. Another option you may want to try, and I know a lot of people go this route, is to start an account with an off-site storage place like dropbox. The account is free for a decent amount of storage, and you use it just like an external hard drive.

Picdude Loc: Ohio

ph0t0bug wrote:

Dropbox is a great tool. But wouldn't he have to also have dropbox? I suppose I could ask him to download it for himself. I will be giving him a call in a few minutes, so being in the printing business, surely he can come up with something.Thanks so much to all who've helped. I have learned quite a bit from you all.

I believe you are correct, he would probably have to have it loaded also. Considering his business, there's a good chance he already does.

twowindsbear

See if you have an EXPORT function in addition to the SAVE AS function. The programs that I use at work, have more options for the formats if they are EXPORTed rather than SAVEd AS.

Hope this helps.