... for your consideration (if you are lacking in art skills). I'm a low volume, single person shop that markets to the 1-3 color customer. I've been intending to purchase some art software that would help minimize my pre-press time, dealing with customer supplied art. I get a fair amount of crappy jpeg, hand-drawn and bitmap stuff that I convert to vector and assign spot colors.
Today, I stumbled across an offering that consider a great value. Being a Coreldraw user (with minimal photoshop skills) I'm attracted to plug-ins that automate functions in Corel. I had decided earlier that I would spend some money (year-end) on SimpleSeps 4.0, but was delighted to find that there is currently "holiday pricing" which is basically 50% off. In this my $133 vs $265. The product is a plug-in for use with Corel X6 & newer.
I apologize, if this appears to be a sales-pitch... it is not. It is intended to be an FYI for those shops (like mine) that don't have full-time art skills readily available. I will not link to the product..... if you are interested you can do your own search for SimpleSeps 4.0
I have not used the product, but here are the features that I hope will benefit my shop:
- automated color separation ( 3 methods)
- automated trap/choke/gutter/spread
- integrated RIP
- interlocking halftone features
- online tutorial assistance
