Image Tips

Getting a specific color from an image is often very challenging. While our rational mind tells us the motorcycle is a uniform color, because we know it is, your camera does not.

A photo is made up a millions of colored dots, each with their own independent color. They blend together to make a realistic image.

When we select a color from an image it has to be just 1 of those dots. Which one is Yamaha blue? No way to tell for sure.

Also the printer then interprets the color choice and prints it the best it can out of the 4 ink colors it has to create every color.

Colors are tricky.

The color you see on your screen is not always the same as the color of the image. Even two identical monitors often show an image differently.

Without getting too deep into color theory, the way your monitor creates colors is the opposite of how printers create color. This can result in it being difficult or even impossible to get an exact color match.


We will do our best to match colors but we can't guarantee a perfect match.

It's just not possible to scale up a low-resolution web image for high-quality printing. Screens and printers require vastly different amounts of image data.

A screen looks sharp with low-resolution files (around 96 dots per inch or DPI), while our printer needs high-resolution files (e.g., 600 DPI) to produce a crisp image.

We always prefer to work with Vector images for logos, but we can often recreate a logo from an image. If you have any questions please reach out.