: A way to Tone down/ fix an image to prevent darkening/ bluring if shrinked I am trying to make a customized keychain using shrink plastic (anyone familiar with shrinky dinks? ) I use an inkjet

@Jessie844

You must have in mind that by thermically shrinking something printed, you will get a much bigger dot gain issue, the darker is the color (more K / black ink) more prone to dot gain it is. So there's some things you could do to avoid color distortion:

Photoshop has Proof Settings that can let you preview a possible color distortion due to printing / color blindness whilst you edit the picture looking at its desired values onscreen.

Being aware of this, this is what you can base yourself on the miscolored print, open your image and adjust proof settings so the proof colors match the colors of the darker shrinked print, once they match, you can then distort colors the original in a way it will look correct on the proof view. You can alternate between proof and standard with CTRL + Y or creating a new view for your document.

Blurring may be an issue from the melting process, for that i guess that applying multiple sharpen filters to it may soothen the effects of the melting, for this is a bit of trial and error.

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