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Output / Printing
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For most of us printing out our documents from Photoshop is a straight forward process. So I'm gonna cover the basics and a few of the advanced techniques you might want to be aware of. First of all I'm gonna go to the file menu and I'm gonna choose print, this will open up the printing dialog and as you see here it's pretty large and we have some options available to us. First of all we can choose the orientation of our document so we can go to portrait or landscape and as you can see the media is not fitting the page. So we can click this button to scale the media to fit and now when we have it in either option we can see that it actually fits the actual page which is very handy of course. If you'd like to move the page around yourself what you can do is uh click on scale media to get rid of the scale to fit and then click center image button and then you can move it yourself and print what parts of the image you'd like to. And this is handy just in case you have a logo like a company logo or something like that. So I'm gonna put center image back on and scale media back on as well. I can also choose the printer that I am going to print to from this list. I can also print as an Adobe pdf which is like a little virtual printer and it will print you're image in a pdf file format. I can choose how many copies I want to print and what I can also do is choose some of the other options over here such as colored management and color handling. I can choose to have the printer manage my colors for me or I can have Photoshop manage my colors and if I choose Photoshop what I can do is print a, choose a profile and of course you would have to talk to your art director or whom ever you are dealing with to find out what profile they may wish you to work with. So any of these are good although this category seems to be the best one to print from so you can choose any of these here. But once again that's depending on your client and what the specifications of the job are. So make sure you find out what they want you to do if you're working for a client. We have an intent here, an intent will pretty much look at you're image and give you the option to print in several ways. For example, for example we have this option here, perceptual, with perceptual if you have any tonal qualities such as gradations from light to darks, this is the grey. If you're printing flat colors such as regular uh say you were doing Charlie Brown as, as a regular comic strip with no tonality, no gradient, just flat colors. You might want to choose one of the flatter ones here so you can use saturation or any of these other guys here and perceptual once again is good for an image like this where we have a lot of tonality going on. What we can also do is we can choose output settings and you can put in your image, you can have calibration marks, you can have registration marks, and what you can also do, its a little easier to see if, if I zoom this out a little tiny bit. So let me just knock this down a little bit so you can see the marks in the image. Ok. So we have the uh registration marks, we have calibration marks, we have crop marks and all kinds of other marks in here that you can use when you trying to precisely align something or print something out. You can also put any description that you have in there in your meta data there labeled as well. And you can do other stuff such as put a background behind your image. So let me turn these off real fast so we can just see what that looks like. You can print a color background so we have Charlie Brown there, I can choose a color from the background, I'll go ahead and grab a blue, like this. And I can have a blue page back there and I can change the color at random if I want to or I can go back to no color at all. I can also put a border around Charlie Brown so I can say uh, you know five points and put a border around the image and what these categories are for are for act post script or printers. Post script is a language written by Adobe that works with pretty high end printers so unless you have one of those and your really good at that I would not even uh mess with these and me personally I don't have a post script printer so I'm not going to even touch these. But what we can touch and work with is this one here, bleed. Let me explain what a bleed is. When you have a magazine color for example, normally the picture, let me put that to scale, is gonna be pretty big, its gonna be bigger then the actual size of your magazine because the uh the uh grippers and all the things that cut the page are gonna have to have something to grab onto to move the page to the press. So normally you would put a bleed on your image so that the printer and the registration marks can be a little bit inside of the area so the page can be cut and still have color going from end to end. And that's really what a bleed is, so you can put a bleed on your image if you need to do that and once again check with your art director or whom ever you're dealing with to make sure that if your gonna have bleed and your working with a high end printer you can do that. Not all home printers or consumer quality printers allow you to have a bleed in the first place. So those are some of the printing options available to you and you have also another choice you can print right away from this dialog box or on the bottom which you can't see right here because this box is so large you can choose done and done will pretty much set the settings for you and keep them in memory so that when your ready to print you can come back to the printing dialog box and then if you need to make any other adjustments you can do that or if not you can print from there.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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