Yikes on USA Today front - 10/30

Not surprised, considering the paper doesn't want its designers to have actual Macs on their desk. Can't imagine being a designer there. No freedom, no creativity, no photoshop. Spare me.

 

How do you design without Photoshop?

 

Why did the Newseum take the link down?

 

Here's the page, for those who haven't seen it:

 

Geez, you'd think they would have time to notice that late and just use the actual photo instead.

 

Obvisouly, it looks like someone knocked it out with a chainsaw.
But, it's got to be a Photoshop path or clipping path error.

 

That's my thought. There is no way it looked like that on the designer's screen. Unless someone didn't care that it looked like that and was trying to prove some sort of point.

 

Here's what I bet happened: Someone finished the cutout but forgot to save it, either because Photoshop crashed before they could save it, or because they plum forgot to save it.

Same person probably plopped it on the page without realizing the issue. Then, by the time it got to the press, it was too late.

 

I'm also guessing that the cutout was done on a Mac, the pagination system PC-based.
Reading and cross-platform translation lost. Nonetheless, ouch.

 

But I'd think a paper of USA Today's size would have a late-check person (people) and the poorly-cut out cutout could have been corrected?

 

Also, with USA Today, they're printing at oodles of plants around the country, so I doubt they have a paper-rolls-off-the-press check person. I'm sure pre-press folks caught it at some plants, but then at that point, I'm presuming you have to screw it, since the people in Springfield are responsible.

 

Welllll