Hi, I'm looking for a way of doing the following:
I want to send a pdf of a project containing a vignette to a commercial printer. Here's the challenge:
creating a vignette (I can do this with layers with a gradient from black to transparent)
saving the picture as a pdf
here's the tricky part defining the black as CYMK 40 30 30 100 (not just a straight RGB to CYMK 0 0 0 100 mapping) to give a dark black when printed by a commercial printer
Photoshop express won't export pdfs
Paintshop won't either
Photoshop will, but is very very expensive
Will paint.net??
I attach a rough example to show what I mean.
Any suggestions welcome whether paint.net or other systems.