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Posted on 21/11/11 4:48:21 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Marlo the cat is here!
I have finally finished the website for my children's book character Every page made with the assistance of photoshop Take a look! http://www.marlothecat.co.uk/ _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 21/11/11 10:45:26 PM |
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munchonu
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Nice job! doug |
Posted on 22/11/11 07:36:11 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Very cute. But we don't get any idea of where Marlo appears - a book? An animated film? A TV series? A newspaper cartoon? You might consider including a PDF extract from the book! |
Posted on 22/11/11 12:04:22 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
I will have to learn how to make a PDF first 
What programme do you recommend? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/11/11 1:04:06 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
...interim ... depends on your source document/publication. You can save WORD document as PDF from WORD, but depends on your version. Some version do not provide the option, but there are work around if not. You can of course save from PS as PDF, but don't think that is the suggestion, unless import and then save as PDF. Of course the advantage of PDF is its a flat file and cannot be manipulated. Helps protect your copyrights. ... not much help I guess ...(?) |
Posted on 22/11/11 1:05:32 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
...interim ... depends on your source document/publication. You can save WORD document as PDF from WORD, but depends on your version. Some version do not provide the option, but there are work around if not. You can of course save from PS as PDF, but don't think that is the suggestion, unless import and then save as PDF. Of course the advantage of PDF is its a flat file and cannot be manipulated. Helps protect your copyrights. ... not much help I guess ...(?) Oh and of course like it  |
Posted on 22/11/11 2:18:57 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Cheers! The documents to be saved are all PS images - but I don't know how to string them together in one PDF (I've never saved anything as a PDF) _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/11/11 3:43:56 PM |
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Ben Mills
Luminous Luminary Posts: 570 Reply  |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Josephine, this is an application that might be useful if you save for web. http://www.pdfforge.org/ I used it to make a PDF of several .jpg pics on separate pages. and, best of all, it's open source and free. |
Posted on 22/11/11 5:30:03 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
That is excellent Ben - thank you very much _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/11/11 7:48:09 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply  |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Hello Josephine, Wish you every luck with your book. If you go to print in Photoshop, in the bottom left corner should be a PDF button - select it and it will show Select as PDF. |
Posted on 23/11/11 4:51:14 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
What is the difference between making a pdf of a series of images and importing the series into a word document? _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 23/11/11 5:35:58 PM |
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Deborah Morley
Makeover Magician Posts: 1319 Reply |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
I think that if you make it as a PDF that is exactly how it will be shown in everyone's browser. It also means that whoever is looking at the image, even if they don't have the typeface you used it will still show properly. If you do it as a Word doc the type etc may not show up how you want it to do. Someone shoot me down. |
Posted on 23/11/11 10:08:32 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
I agree Deborah. I've had problems (many) importing into word, but had to do it because that was international working accepted means of contributions and review. The fonts and the styles give problems. Guess depends what you want to do? |
Posted on 24/11/11 08:09:52 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Since you're on a Mac, you can use Automator (it's in your Utilities folder). Make a new Workflow, and in the PDF section there's an option to create a PDF file from multiple JPEG images. I've created a workflow here for you. For web delivery, save all the pages you want to include at 72ppi, then drag the resulting jpeg files onto this application. It will create a new PDF on the desktop, called Marlo. Download it here. |
Posted on 24/11/11 3:11:40 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Thank you Steve you are so kind! Sadly tho I have a pc *hangs head in shame* and windows does not want to open the files you sent  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 24/11/11 3:39:49 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
and photoshop says it is the "wrong kind of file"  _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 24/11/11 7:28:08 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Ah... don't know why I thought you had a Mac. In that case, that file I sent won't work at all. Sorry. |
Posted on 24/11/11 8:39:22 PM |
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Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Well I have Windows as well, because I had to. off topic(I started with a Mac, grey heavy small screen, but was great at the time! Our company forced us to Microsoft and associated HW. But it did not really matter, only for documents, for engineering we used UNIX and SUN ..... a long story ...., and more, perpetuates.. ) I presume you want to create one PDF file with all your PS images in one PDF document. One tool you can use is via Bridge, but needs to be a later versions (CS....?). Its based on creating a contact sheet in PDF format of your images from Bridge. From Bridge select the images you want to include in the PDF file and choose Window > Workspace > Output. Then, click the PDF button at the top of the Output panel. There are loads of options. Select Document size e.g A4. If you want one image per sheet, in Layout chose Rows 1 and Columns 1. You can specify Headers and Footers.... and a lot more I'll ignore, for now. View: Full Page. In Save box, click View after save. Then press Save Button and save to where want it. Hay presto a multi page PDF document. Again, this feature was only introduced in later versions of PS with Bridge. Of course, rather than save as PDF you can save for Web, but you already have that, and works quite well too IMHO..... If you want to create a Word Document I can help with that, the problem there is all the different versions of Word and Styles/fonts, but for a basic document its not too difficult. Hope this helps a bit. Trevor |
Posted on 25/11/11 11:40:21 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2603 Reply |
Re: Marlo the cat is here!
Thank you Trevor (and all others for your kind advice/suggestions) but I have the steam driven edition of PS without bridge capability. Never mind, I shall forge ahead with Bens freeware ... _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |