Montage - Colour in between the pics?

[swag72]

I am thinking of doing a montage of my favourite places in Bucks ready for when I leave UK (A couple of years yet!!). Would I be better for eventual printing purposes having a white background in between the pics, or leaving it blank so that when it comes to printing there is just the colour of the paper?

 

[CT]

Not sure what you mean there Sara - how can you leave it blank?

Unless you do gifs with a transparent bg.

 

[swag72]

When I have done triptych, the first layer is the original canvas that the pics then go on. What I mean is, if I want a white background (maybe that's not a true montage?) in between the laid out pics, am I better colouting the layer white, or just let the layer be the colour of the printing paper?

Does that make more sense?

 

[Jayst84]

Assuming you're using PS. Anything that is pure white (255,255,255) won't be printed on. ie it will just be the paper showing through.

Printers generally don't like transparency from my experience.

 

[swag72]

Excellent, thanks

I can now think about my masterpiece

 

[Jayst84]

Excellent, thanks

I can now think about my masterpiece

No worries.