Gobo Artwork Guidelines

Artwork Guidelines

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Artwork Guidelines for Custom Gobos

Artwork Quality

Artwork Quality for Glass Gobos
Our gobos can only be as good as your artwork. We make our glass gobos in ultra high optical resolution. However, the quality of the gobo is limited by the quality of your artwork. Please help us achieving the best results by providing us clean, crisp images by following our artwork guidelines.

Artwork Quality for Metal Gobos
While we prefer professional vector artwork, we can work from pretty much any artwork you provide as metal gobo designs don’t require high resolution art.

If it looks good on your screen, it’s probably ok for us.
Ideally we’d like to get your art in one of the professional formats described below but we are quite flexible. Try this: zoom your artwork so it fills about half the screen. If it looks clean, then it should be ok for gobo production.

Poor Artwork
We do smaller adjustments and redraws at no charge. For larger jobs, we charge a small fee and will quote this before producing the gobo.

Artwork Dimensions
The artwork does not need to be sized to the gobo dimensions. We automatically adjust it to the correct gobo image diameter suitable for the fixture. Let us know if you have special requirements.

Color Reference
We usually match the colors of your artwork with the colors of our Standard Color Palette. If you require us to match your colors exactly, please state this in the order sheet. This may incur additional costs. We are able to match virtually any color, but we cannot guarantee the exact match of your colors in the resulting projection due to variations in the fixtures and projection surface. Please let us know if you have special requirements.

Electronic Format
Artwork is automatically transferred to our servers when the order is placed at our website. Or you can email us with the file attached to artwork@gobosource.com . Further details below.

Vector Format
For line art designs or typical illustrations, we require vector format. Please convert text to outlines or vector art. This prevents possible problems with font substitutions and interpretations. The file format should preferably be

.eps (Encapsulated Postscript)
.ai (Adobe Illustrator)
.wmf (Windows Meta File)

If you can only provide bitmap format, such as .jpg or .gif for our line art gobos, we may need to rework your artwork at an additional charge of $49.00. Please save the design in the highest possible quality (lowest compression).

Bitmap Format
For halftone, raster, gradients or photographic oriented designs, we require bitmap format. The file format should preferably be

.eps (Encapsulated Postscript)
.psd (Photoshop)
.tif
.bmp
jpg (uncompressed if possible)
gif (uncompressed if possible)

For professional art, please provide a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and a size of minimum 4 x 4” but not larger than 8 1/2 x 11”.

Winword
Good quality images embedded in a .doc or .docx file can be faithfully reproduced. However, text provided in a doc file may look different on our screen than on yours because we may not have the same font installed. The resulting gobo would turn out wrong. Please rather convert your doc file to a more reliable format such as JPG.

How to Submit your Gobo Artwork
Your artwork can be submitted electronically in PC or Macintosh format.

Automatically when you place your order online.
You can email your files to artwork@gobosource.com (max size 99MBytes).
We can email you an upload link for unlimited file size.
If you wish, you can send a CD or DVD with your files to:
Gobo Source
Artwork Dpt.
3457 Outlook Ct.
San Jose, CA 95132

Alternatives
If you cannot provide your artwork in electronic format, here are some alternatives. Please note that such artworks may have longer turnaround times and add additional cost because we need to convert your artwork. You may submit:

Actual photograph
35mm slide
As a last resort: Good quality fax (use fine resolution). Please provide a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and a size of minimum 4 x 4” but no larger than 8 1/2 x 11” to

Gobo Source
3457 Outlook Ct.
San Jose, CA 95132
Fax: 408.519.6661

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