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Now before we leave Photoshop, I want to talk about some of the basics of Printing. Now, Photoshop's printing capabilities are actually pretty powerful. But when you put it next to other big-wig printing applications like Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat, it doesn't seem quite as robust. But the concepts about printing we are going to discuss in this segment are pretty standard across the board. So, to print we can go to File and then Print, but if I hit that with the keyboard shortcut, which is Ctrl P, so it seems like it would be the best way to print, all it does is just bring up our Printer dialogue box, which gives us access to our Printer Driver and that is pretty much it. What I prefer to do when I'm printing from Photoshop - I'm going to cancel out of this - is go to File, Print with Preview. Now, in other programs like Microsoft Word, Print with Preview is pretty lame. It doesn't really do that much for you. But when you select Print with Preview in Photoshop, it gives you access to a very powerful world here. Now there are some basic options. We can choose to center the image in the middle of the paper as we click and drag, you will find that we can't move it. Uncheck this and we can print this at the top here. I once worked for a company where we printed a lot of very small pieces. So we got in the habit of moving our images to the very edge of the paper, that way we could flip the piece of paper around and reuse this side and save on money a little bit. You can also manually scale up or down, preferably down, your piece, or you can just scale it to fit the media. Now, the real power of this dialogue box comes in this button - More Options. And there are two choices here - Output and Color Management. Both are far beyond the scope of this training series. But just for a brief overview, Output is to get access to more sophisticated printing features. Registration marks, crop marks, borders, bleed, screen information, that type of thing. And for this type of stuff, I really recommend getting in good with your printing bureau. They will know best about what your Photoshop document could benefit from by having these checked or adjusted. Also, we have Color Management. Again, very sophisticated here, but you can set up your color profiles in this area. Once we have got all this stuff the way we like it, we can hit Print and then we get access to our Print Dialogue box. Now, one last thing, I'm going to go back to File, Print with Preview. You can also hit from this menu, Page Setup. And so we can specify the size of paper, whether we want this portrait or landscape or what have you. So, this is a small little button that people often overlook. A lot of the answers to common questions about printing in Photoshop are found under that button. And so now it's time, temporarily at least, to bid goodbye to Photoshop. This amazingly robust and powerful application that is really the heart, as I see it, of the Creative Suite. But do not despair, we are just getting started in our tour of the Creative Suite here, now it's time to move on to Adobe Illustrator, one of the most stimulating applications that I know of.