https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 03:49:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241565 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 08:51:25 +0000 Mrs.Waffles 2241565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: You will want to use the lightest shade as your background color. So that the darker colors will pop out easily. It's hard for me to say which color that would be as there can be variation within a color. Meaning, not sure if the color of mint green for example, is a light shade versus a saturated shade. Just my thoughts. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241433 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:09:55 +0000 regberadaisy 2241433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.line: @Mrs.Waffles: @Mrs.Someone: given these colors: coral, aqua blue and mint green. Which would be the easiest to use as a background to print on so the other two shows the best? I wanted coral paper but am thinking it will be hard to get two lighter colors to print properly on a darker paper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241408 Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:05:57 +0000 Mrs.Waffles 2241408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with @Mrs.Someone: changing the layer's blend mode to multiply against the layer of the color of the paper would work best. I still would printout swatches of the color I would want to reproduce because the monitor color will always look different than the printer output. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241372 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:33:20 +0000 Mrs.Someone 2241372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Changing the colored layer to "multiply" will give you the best representation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241370 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:21:13 +0000 ms.line 2241370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you put it under it won't have any effect on your other layers (since they're opaque) although you could see if you can get a sense by dropping the opacity of all of them to 80% or so.</p> <p>ETA: It's hard to get true blues and greens on reds - good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241369 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:18:55 +0000 regberadaisy 2241369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.line: hmmm I was thinking putting it under all my other layers. But over with a transparency might work. Will have to try tomorrow night. I needed to get these out like last week!! Aaahhh</p> <p>I'm printing in coral paper and the colors I want to pop are a aqua blue and mint green. Hahaha it's so muted when I did a test print. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241367 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:14:23 +0000 ms.line 2241367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Create a new layer, place it on top of your project, and use the paint bucket to fill with a color similar to your paper. Then change the layer properties to reduce the opacity - maybe 30-50%, not sure how saturated your paper is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/photoshop-gurus-help#post-2241365 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 22:09:13 +0000 regberadaisy 2241365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Help! I'm working on DD2's invite and I want to print on colored paper. I forgot to account for the fact that the color will print differently on colored paper. D'oh. Anyhow, is there anyway in Photoshop I can overlay a color and see how it will print? I know I won't get it exact but as long as I'm close, I'm not too picky!<br /> I don't have a ton of the colored paper so I can't trial and error 59 times. My back up is to draw a bunch of boxes and fill it with different shades, print it and see which one I like best and just match it. :silly: </p> <p>Thanks! </p>