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Figure 13-32: Choosing images in Bridge.

Your photos will be viewed on a computer monitor, so all you need here is a resolution of 72ppi; anything more would be a waste. If you have created Web images for all the photos you’ve processed, use those. (They Are Stored in your Web output folder, right? If not, you may want to review the image-management workflow in Chapter 4.)

2. Choose ToolsOPhotoshopO PDF Presentation.

The PDF Presentation window appears, as shown in Figure 13-33. The chosen images are listed in the Source Files area.

Figure 13-33: PDF Presentation window.

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3.  Select the Presentation radio button in the Output Options section.

You can also choose options that set how many seconds you want your slides to appear before moving on to the next slide, and what kind of transition you want to make from one slide to another. There are some really cool transitions to choose from!

4.  Save the presentation.

In the Save window shown in Figure 13-34, choose a place to save the PDF Presentation on your computer. Choose an exist­ing folder (or create a new folder), click the Open button, and then click the Save button.

5.  Choose settings in the Save Adobe PDF window.

The Save Adobe PDF window appears. Click the Adobe PDF Preset selection box and choose Smallest File Size (shown in Figure 13-35) if the presentation is to be viewed on a computer. You may want to choose larger sizes if your pre­sentation is to be printed out at high quality.

6.  Click the Save PDF button.

Your new PDF Presentation is ready for viewing in the Adobe PDF window, as shown in Figure 13-36.

Your presentation should start auto­matically after you’ve saved it to the designated location. You can always restart your presentation by double-clicking its file icon.

Figure 13-34: The Save window.

Figure 13-35: The Save Adobe PDF window.

Figure 13-36: Viewing a presentation in Adobe Reader.

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Do you ever walk into someone’s office, place of business, or home and see those beautiful photographic posters framed and hanging on the wall? Do you see the works of Ansel Adams or other famous photographers, in the form of fine art posters, and ask yourself, Why can’t I do that?Well, you can — using Photoshop!

1.  Choose a photo that you’d be proud to hang in a large poster frame.

Make sure that the image has enough resolution to print clearly at a size of about 11×14 inches. If you shoot with a 6-megapixel digital SLR (or an 8-megapixel compact digi­tal camera), you may have the resolution in your photo needed to achieve good detail at that size — about 300 pixels/inch. I’ve chosen the photo in Figure 13-28 for the poster.

2.  Add a thin black line around the image.

Create a new layer and choose

EditOStroke. Add a 3-pixel

Black line on the inside of the

Figure 13-28: Photo chosen to use for a poster.

Image.

3.  Choose SelectOAll.

Selecting the entire image will let you copy it easily to the new poster canvas you create in Step 4.

4.  Create a new document in Photoshop.

Choose FileONew. In the New

Document window shown in

Figure 13-29, make these settings: Figure 13-29: New document window.

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A.  Set the Width to 20 Inches.

B.  Set the Height to 24 Inches.

C.  Set the Resolution to the same resolution as your chosen photograph. A value of 300 pixels/inch should be sufficient for most printers.

5.  Make the chosen Photo window active by clicking the photo.

6.  Choose EditOCopy to copy the photo into memory.

7.  Make the new document active by clicking the new document window.

This will make the 20×24-inch poster active. Choose EditOPaste to paste your photo into the new document.

8.  Click the Move tool and drag the photo to where you want to place it in the poster.

Figure 13-30 shows how I placed the photo in the poster so I have more space on the bottom. That’s so I can fit my text into that spot.

9.  Using the Type tool, add text to your poster.

Choose your favorite font, click the area of the poster where you want your text to appear, and then type in your text. Make sure the font is large enough to read well and look good on the poster.

Figure 13-31 shows the finished poster.

Figure 13-30: Dragging the photo into position.

Most of us don’t have large-format

Printers in our offices or homes that can print high-quality 20×24-inch posters; send that job out to a printing service bureau. Be sure to use a rep­utable service that can offer ICC profiles you can proof your colors against while you’re tweaking your poster in Photoshop; otherwise, you won’t be sat­isfied with the results. Look for a local photo lab that has experience in print­ing digital files at large-format sizes.

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Figure 13-31: Finished fine art poster.

Sure, I’ve used a lot of tools such as FrontPage to create my own photo Web site (shown in Figure 13-24). But I’ve also used the Photoshop Web Photo

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Gallery to create photo Web sites to display images to clients — and I’m amazed how good a job the Web Photo Gallery does. It’s a built-in Web-site generator within Photoshop — and a quick way to show off your photos on the Web or create custom sites for clients.

Figure 13-24: The author’s Web site.

Web Photo Gallery is part of Photoshop, but it’s also accessible through Bridge, where its easier to browse for images you want to include in your Web site. Here’s how to create a Web site using Web Photo Gallery:

1. Select images in Bridge to include in your Web site.

If you followed the image-management workflow described in Chapter 4, you have a group of images in an Output folder, awaiting their shot at the Web. As a best practice, process your images in Photoshop, and then convert each image in a format that’s Web-friendly Images shown on the Web should be processed in the RGB working space and saved in the JPEG format at 72dpi. Figure 13-25, for example, shows images in an output folder I created for Web images selected in Bridge.

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Figure 13-25: Selecting images in Bridge for your Web site.

2.  Start Web Photo Gallery.

Choose ToolsOPhotoshopOWeb Photo Gallery.

3.  Browse styles by clicking the Styles selection box (shown in Figure 13-26).

Web Photo Gallery offers a vari­ety of templates you can use for your photo Web site. When you browse the styles by selecting them one at a time, you can view the style in the preview area located on the right side of the Web Photo Gallery window.

4.  Select source images and destination.

In the Source Images section of

The Web Photo Gallery window,

Make sure Selected Images from

Bridge is chosen in the Use             Figure 1326: The Web Photo Gallery window

Field. Click the Destination

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5. Click the Options selection box and choose Banner.

Fill in the Site Name, Photographer, Contact Info, and Date fields. Web Photo Gallery uses this information as a header on your Web site.

If you want to change the color scheme of the style you’ve chosen, click the Options selection box and choose Custom Colors to change the fore­ground and background colors of your Web site. Figure 13-27 shows you a sample Web site I created using Web Photo Gallery.

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Uploading your site to a Web provider makes it available to the world. Free Web providers are readily available on the Internet, or your Internet service provider may already offer Web hosting. Many Internet providers such as Comcast offer subscribers free Web space. If you want to get fancier and set up a Web site with your own URL, try services such as Yahoo Small Business or Geocities; both offer low-cost solutions. However you go about it, no excuses — get your images up there on the Web now!

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