Photoshop Color Correction

This page will guide you through color correcting Four Souls cards with Photoshop so that you end up with a file that is ready to be sent to makeplayingcards.com.

Disclaimer

There are color variations between different editions and copies of the game, as well as in the prints of MPC's factory. Our target was English Requiem Kickstarter, but our copy could be different from yours!
Sleeving your cards can help them blend together better.

You can find print-ready card files (front & back) in this drive.
They don't need any editing!

Download

Prerequisites

Photoshop CS3 or newer
Four Souls card front images. e.g. from the official site or your custom cards
Our Selective Color preset .asv file
"U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" CMYK color profile (comes pre-installed with Photoshop)

Preparing the image

Open the image file in Photoshop (File > Open...)
Click on: "Edit > Convert to Profile..."
In the pop up window, choose the following settings:

Click OK to confirm

Applying the preset

Click on "Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color..."
Leave the New Layer window with defaults, and click OK
Make sure the new Selective Color adjustment layer is topmost layer in the layers panel

Double-Click the Selective Color adjustment layer's icon to bring up its Properties tab
Skip the next two steps if you've loaded in the .asv preset before.
Click "Menu > Load Selective Color Preset…"

In the new window, navigate to and select the downloaded .asv file. Click: [Load]
Make sure that the default values have changed and that the selected preset is the one you downloaded. You should also see the image change when you hide/show the adjustment layer

Saving the new image

Click: File > Save a Copy…
Select JPEG as file type, and enable ICC Profile: U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2

Click [Save]

Select the maximum available quality in the next window and click [OK]
You're done!