From the course: Designing a Poster
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Finessing and printing
- [Instructor] Continuing with our newspaper blackout theater poster, what I want to do next is work on the type. My type is just looking a little bit too crisp, and a little bit too black. So I'm going to come to the layer group that contains my type, and then convert this to a smart object. So I'm right clicking to the right of the layer name, Convert to Smart Object. And I'm going to change the blending mode to Multiply and then we'll take the opacity down to somewhere around 80%. I'm also going to come to the Filter menu and to Blur, Gaussian Blur. And I'm just going to ever so slightly blur the type. Okay, so we're now ready to print this. Photoshop does not make it easy to output a file with print marks. So for that reason I'm going to come to InDesign. And in InDesign I'm going to make a new document that is at the size of my poster which is A3, or maybe you're using tabloid. I'll turn off Facing Pages, I will add a Bleed of three millimeters or 1/8 of an inch. And then I'm…
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