Jeff Kelley
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Depends really but the simplest way is make a ps file and run it through Distiller. What is the pdf for? Print, web, press? What program are you creating the pages in?
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I think one would have to see the image in question to give you any answer. It’s like telling a doctor over the phone that you don’t feel well and expecting him to tell you how to cure yourself.
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Just save a copy of your image and them delete all the layers you don’t want in the copy. You’ll have one channel in the image.
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Just copy and Paste the new image into a new layer (or drag and drop it). Size it correctly. In layers pallet, merge down onto the background layer.
This is a simple as I can make it.
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Exactly. I always try to set all type in Illustrator but a nice large font at 300 dpi should look fine.
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The problem is once you set type in Photoshop and and save, lets say a tif, eps, or jpg, you stuck with this resolution. You lose the advantage or using postscript fonts, which is they can be resized without lose of quality. If you wanted to blow up you image, you will probably start losing quality.
For headline fonts, big bold stuff, there is no problem but . . . never ever set regular text in photoshop. Small type will print at whatever resolution you have the image in. If it is going to be professionally printed, your will be very disappointed. Printer print text at 1200 to 3600 dpi. That’s because it’s so fine. If at all possible I always set type in Illustrator, Quark, Indesign. Only large type I want to use Photoshop effects on will do in photoshop.
To let you know what a problems this was, when I was in printing, we wouldn’t except jobs the text fonts were set in photoshop. Why? Because the customer will always be upset when he see’s the final product and he will point his finger at use.
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Do you have more than one HD on you system or is it partitioned? Make sure you scratch disk in your preferences is set up for the right drive.
When you get that error check you hard drive space. If it seems to be all gone, it’s because Photoshop is using all the HD space for memory. Once you recieve that error there is not much you can do. If you can dump some stuff from your HD, that may work. You also can try all the purges. Cropping at this point probably won’t help because it’s the history that’s using a lot of the scratch space. That is why you can save when you first open it up but not after you’ve done some work, because of PS multiple undo’s, it uses a ton of memory. (when you crop it saves the data from before the crop and after the crop so you can undo it if you want)
The best thing to do is get as much RAM as you computer can hold. I use to have that problem and upgraded my computer to a gig of Ram and ever have any problems. That is because the computer now has enough space in RAM so it doesn’t have to use HD space.
You can also get Firewire drive and use that as more scratch space.
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If you know how to use the channel mixer, you could find the channel that has the detail you want as use that to give the other channels some detail. If, lets say the Red channel has the best detail and there is nothing in the blue channel or a flat color go to channel mixer and copy the Red into the blue. You may want to keep a little of what already is one the blue. You may have to add a bit of noise or something to make the blue channel not exactly the same as the red.
This is a trial and error type deal. Without the actual image in front of me it would be impossable to give you a step by step instruction since every picture is different.
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When you make a mask, you must have both the new path and the item you want to mask selected.