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BEVEL AND EMBOSS TYPE

To create either beveling or embossing on type:

1 Select the layer containing the text to which you want to apply the effect

2 Click Layer | Layer Style | Bevel And Emboss The Layer Style dialog box appears (You can also click the Add A Layer Style icon on the Layers panel and click

Bevel And Emboss to display the Layer Style dialog box.)

3 The options for controlling the beveling and embossing are displayed in the dialog box, as shown in Figure 11-12 As you select options, you can view the results in the preview box

• Style Displays a menu of styles you can use: Outer Bevel forms the bevel beyond

the edge of the original type; Inner Bevel forms the bevel from the edge of the text inward; Emboss makes the type look as if it were stamped, or standing apart from the background; Pillow Emboss is a more rounded look; Stroke Emboss adds an

edge to the outline

• Technique Displays three options: Smooth blurs the edges; Chisel Hard makes it

look crisp and defined; Chisel Soft is less sharp than Chisel Hard but more defined

than Smooth

FINDING AND USING LAYER STYLES

Preset layer styles can be found in a couple of places in

Photoshop CS4 There is a difference between adding a

layer style (singular) via the Add A Layer Style command

on the Layers Panel and using the presets on the Styles

(plural) panel If you want a single effect for a layer—such

as a Drop Shadow, you can choose it from the Add Layer

Style drop-down list on the Layers panel However, if you

want to apply several effects (styles) at once, you use

the Styles panel, with collections of style “recipes” that

produce more elaborate looks through the use of multiple

styles than a single style alone

USE THE STYLES PANEL

1 Click Window | Styles The Styles

panel is displayed This contains thumbnails showing what the style effects will look like

2 Select the text layer to which the layer style will

be applied

3 Click the style, or drag the style to the selected text

4 Press SHIFT while you drag to add the selected

style to those already applied to the selected text Without pressing SHIFT, the selected style replaces any styles currently applied

USE THE LAYER STYLE DIALOG BOX

1 Select the text layer to which the style will

be applied

2 Click Layer | Layer Style, and click an option to

display the dialog box for layer styles (An example

of the dialog box is shown under “Create Drop

Shadows.”) You can also click Add A Layer Style icon from the bottom of the Layers panel and

click the option you want from the context menu

Figure 11-12: The Bevel and Emboss effects can give your text depth and a more dimensional look.

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• Depth Sets the depth of the bevel or embossing.

• Direction Determines whether the surface of the type is up and rounded or down

and indented

• Size Determines the size of the shading—that is, how deep into the text it is.

• Soften Blurs the shaded part of the bevel or embossing.

• Angle Establishes the degree of the light source and whether all the type has the

same light source

• Altitude Determines how high the light source is.

• Gloss Contour Displays a menu of options for the shape, or contour, of the bevel.

• Anti-Aliased Smoothes the edges of the contour.

• Highlight Mode Applied to the highlights of the bevel or embossing By default,

this is set to Screen, and the default color is white.

• Opacity Connected to Highlight Mode and varies it Drag the sliders to set

the values

• Shadow Mode Applied to the shadows of the bevel or embossing By default, this

is set to Multiply, and the default color is black.

• Opacity Can be varied for the Shadow Mode Drag the slider to set the values.

4 When you are satisfied, click OK.

MAKE TYPE GLOW INSIDE AND OUT

The Inner Glow and Outer Glow effects make your type look as if there were a light source either inside or behind the type You’ll want to experiment with the options to get the effect you want:

1 Select the layer containing the text to which you want to apply the effect

2 Click Layer | Layer Style | Inner Glow The Layer Style dialog box appears (You can also click the Add A Layer Style button on the Layers panel, and then click Inner

Glow to display its options on the Layer Style dialog box.)

3 The options for controlling the inside and outside glows are displayed on the dialog box, as shown in Figure 11-13 As you select options, you can view the results in the preview box You can see that many of the options are the same as with the Drop Shadow or Bevel and Emboss effects The following lists some of the options unique to Inner Glow

TIP

To copy an effect from one layer to another, right-click the

“fx” legend at the right of a layer, and click Copy Layer

Style Then CTRL / CMD+click other layers that you want

to have the style, right-click, and then click Paste Layer

Style off the context menu.

CAUTION

If your text does not conform to the path or if the path

disappears, make sure you are on the right layer

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3 Choose the settings for the option you selected

The choices will vary, depending on which style you

picked See “Add Special Type Effects with Layer

Styles” for specifics on the common styles used

4 Click OK.

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• Noise Makes the glow harsher and is actually a good way to simulate fluorescent

lighting with objects and text and can prevent banding when printing Drag the

Noise slider to add more noise to the glow Specify a value between 0 (no noise)

and 100 (maximum noise)

• Fill Can be solid or you can select a graduated color scheme from the drop-down

list Click the small color swatch to determine the color for the glow and click the down arrow on the larger swatch for the gradient

• Technique Determines whether the effect is blurry or sharp.

• Source Determines whether the light source is coming from the center of the type

or from the inside edges

• Choke Increases or decreases the perimeter of the matte of the glow.

• Size Defines the size of the glow.

• Contour Pertains to the pattern of the fading of the glow.

• Range Describes where the contour will be applied to the glow.

• Jitter Increases or decreases the variations around the layer.

4 When you are satisfied, click OK.

Figure 11-13: The Inner Glow effect makes your type look as if there were an inside source of light.

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Create Text Masks

You can use a text mask either to create a selection of type or to fill type with the background from one image or layer that you want to use on another image or layer It is like making a cutout of one image to use in another.

1 In the Layers panel, select the layer that contains the image you want to use

2 Select the Horizontal Mask Type tool or the Vertical Mask Type tool.

3 Set your formatting the way you want, as described previously in this chapter Click the image to set the insertion point The document should immediately turn to Quick Mask tint overlay color, and as you type, your text appears as clear areas in the Quick Mask (see Figure 11-14)

Figure 11-14: Quick Mask indicates

selected areas, while the

text you type reveals

underlying layer content.

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4 Type the words you want to mask, and then click

Commit You will now see a selection marquee

representing your text

5 You can do several tasks, although you cannot edit the type as text at this point (no editing can be done after clicking Commit):

• Copy and paste the contents within the marquee selection to a new layer—put a

selection tool inside the marquee, right-click, and then click Layer Via Copy The

background image is not affected

• Move the selection marquee (with a selection tool inside the marquee); it can be dragged to another position, the underlying content can be copied, the selection can be filled, or it can be treated like any other Photoshop selection

The text shown in Figure 11-15 is a copy of the photo area on the bottom layer and has been repositioned in the document on the top layer.

Figure 11-15: The photo areas of the selected words “Puget Sound Sunset” were copied and then repositioned.

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How to…

• Choose a File Format

Saving to Acrobat PDF Format

• Save to PSD

• Save as a PNG

• Save a GIF

• Use EPS Under Certain

Circumstances

• Prepare Your Images

for Printing

• Print to an Inkjet Printer

Choosing a Rendering Intent

• Preview Print Jobs with Soft

Proofing and Gamut Warning

Using CMYK Inks and

RGB Color Profiles

• Care for Inkjet Prints

• Create a Contact Sheet

• Create a Personal Web Gallery

• Learn the Basics of

Commercial Printing

• Print on Something Other

than Paper

• Use a Service Bureau

for High-End Output

Chapter 12

Printing and Exporting Images

The photos and artwork you create with Photoshop can have

a life of their own outside of Photoshop; this chapter dives into

personal and professional printing of your work, as well as exporting from Photoshop to file formats you can share online with others Tips and techniques for prepping your work for a commercial printer are also covered.

Choose a File Format

Photoshop can save your work to dozens of different file formats, although you and your clients probably will only need PSD, PDF, PNG, JPG, TIF, GIF, and EPS So which one should you use to save your hard work? If you will be working with this file again in Photoshop, you’ll want to be sure to save it in Photoshop’s native format PSD so that all of Photoshop’s specialized layers and other effects are saved But you will also probably want to save a copy of your file in some other file format, such as JPG or PNG for use on the Web or TIF, EPS, or PDF for printing.

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Save to PSD

You should use Photoshop’s native file format, PSD, whenever you think you’ll want to perform future editing to a composition PSD retains layer information, alpha channels, text, paths, and all special effects such as Layer Styles you might have placed in the document When you save to PSD file format, a dialog box is displayed offering only one option: to enable backward compatibility,

or not Maximize Compatibility means that the file will degrade gracefully to successfully open in previous versions of Photoshop—although features specific

to CS4 might be simplified or removed when, for example, a Photoshop 7 user opens the file The data is there; it simply is hidden to prevent previous Photoshop versions from

faulting on data they weren’t designed to handle.

Save as a PNG

A Portable Network Graphic (PNG) file can be created by clicking either File |

Save As or File | Save For Web & Devices It’s usually more error-proof to

save in the Save For Web & Devices feature, particularly if your composition has transparency A PNG file can only have one layer, with or without transparency, and no alpha channels In addition to being great for the Web, it’s also useful for archiving photos that have transparency; PNG’s file format is lossless, and it’s understood by many other graphics applications See Chapter 13 for details on PNG’s use on the Web.

SAVING TO ACROBAT PDF FORMAT

Adobe’s Acrobat PDF file format is useful for e-mailing

to clients, and the quality of text and graphics in a PDF

is generally suitable for sending to a commercial printer

PDFs can retain font information as an embedded subset

of the font you use; text is vector in structure, so it prints

crisp at any resolution, but only the characters used are

embedded, making it difficult for recipients to unlawfully

extract a commercial typeface from the PDF document

A PDF saved from Photoshop can display the text layer

intact when you open it in Photoshop, depending on the

backward compatibility setting you choose when you

save and the version of PDF to which you save Here is

how you can create a PDF file from Photoshop:

1 Click File | Save As and Photoshop displays a

small reminder box that if you could care less about PDF options, a quick way to save a copy

of your file is via the Actions panel, which has a high-quality, press-ready Action all set up for you

in the Default Actions folder

2 Choose the options that best apply to your

intended audience from one of these categories in the Save Adobe PDF dialog box:

• General This category offers a number of

presets (click the Adobe PDF Preset down

arrow) that are a good jumping-off point if you want to customize the settings If you or your client has a specific version of Acrobat, click

the Compatibility down arrow and choose the

version of Acrobat Reader as the target Also, there are a number of standards for PDF files for PDF Exchange (PDF/X) you might or might not need to set When you select an Exchange

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Use JPEG

This file format should only be used on a copy of your original Photoshop composition, because it uses lossy compression (data that is judged to be unimportant is discarded, to save on overall file size) Great for the Web and

e-mail attachments, JPEG images can be created via File | Save As and File |

Save For Web & Devices ; Save For Web & Devices is a better route because you can preview how the lossy compressed file looks before you save it Refer to Chapter 13 on how to prepare a JPEG for posting on a web page.

Use TIF

The Tagged Image File (Format) is one of the oldest high-fidelity formats for images, and its current “custodian” (the party who determines its standards and features in the future) is Adobe Systems At present, the TIF file format has almost every capability that PSD does—special effects and text, along with paths in a saved TIF can be successfully reopened in Photoshop However, many other applications cannot parse (understand, decode) the special data, although

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as a preset, the standards are identified in the

Standard drop-down list, and a brief summary

is displayed in the Description text box The

Exchange Standard eliminates discrepancies

in the document that relate to font embedding

and color trapping for commercial output

Therefore, if your press operator can’t handle a

PSD file, you should set an appropriate PDF/X

version; a PDF is not editable by a commercial

press operator without Photoshop, so removing

halftone screen and transfer (brightness)

functions before you send this file to a printer

ensures fewer “show-stoppers.”

• Compression These settings give you the

opportunity to create a custom downsampling

of your PDF file so, for example, a copy you

need to e-mail is 72 pixels per inch (ppi)

instead of the more press-ready image

resolution of 266–300 ppi However, choosing

[Smallest File Size] from the Adobe PDF

Preset drop-down list automatically calculates

the best-quality, smallest file for e-mailing Of

some importance under Compression are the

options to use JPEG, Zip, or No Compression

Zip compression creates larger saved files

than JPEG compression, but Zip is lossless

compression while JPEG is lossy If you’re a

purist about your imaging work, you might want

to choose lossless or no compression (See

Chapter 2 for a discussion of the compression

techniques.)

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they can indeed open the TIF file format The best you might get, for example,

if you try to place a Photoshop TIF with layers in a Microsoft Word document,

is that the layers will be flattened (this is called “gracefully degrading” data) But the worst is that an application might not recognize the special data, or even crash If a client requests a TIF image, it’s probably best to assume they don’t own the latest version of Photoshop—so go ahead and flatten a copy and delete alpha channels unless the client specifically asked for alpha channels.

TIF file types can also be saved using compression; the Layer Compression area

of the dialog box is quite explicit about saving fast or saving small If you work cross platform, you might want to use the Byte Order of the intended recipient

of your file.

Save a GIF

The Graphic Interchange Format (GIF) is a very old and not terribly color-capable file format for high-quality images GIFs are Indexed Color mode, capable of only containing up to 256 unique colors, and as a result files are quite small

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• Output This category gives you the chance to

specify a Color Conversion for when you send

a PDF to a commercial press and the RGB visual data needs to be read as CMYK data If you’re uncertain of what the destination’s color space is, you can choose No Conversion; a good print house should be able to work with Adobe’s native color space for a conversion because Adobe RGB color space is based

on the CIELAB color model, which is device independent

• Security This category enables you to set up

security for your document if it’s very sensitive

in content and you’re e-mailing it to an insecure ftp site However, you shouldn’t be doing this in the first place (password protection is relatively feeble against cracks using supercomputers), and it’s very common to password-protect

yourself or your client from the document!

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GIF images are still used on the Web for small icons and animations; the best way to save a copy of images and the only way to save an animated GIF is

via File | Save For Web & Devices See Chapter 13

for the steps on how to build a GIF animation.

Use EPS Under Certain Circumstances

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) is falling out of favor commercially, giving way to PDF, but it’s still a useful file format for sharing graphics, text, and images with coworkers who don’t own Photoshop Briefly, an EPS file contains printing instructions about the graphical content of the file; if the file contains both vector (such as text) and bitmap data, it will be hard to impossible for anyone to view the file in programs other than Photoshop, although

vector-only contents can often be opened using Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and Xara

Xtreme An EPS file can contain printing plates for CMYK, Duotone, and

two-color print jobs, and when you choose this file format for saving a copy of a

file, you’re given the option to include a small thumbnail that others can see

for the purpose of accurately placing the data file in DTP programs such as

InDesign EPS files will be your least common choice of formats in everyday

imaging and file-sharing work.

When you save to EPS, it’s a fairly standard convention that the file should be in

CMYK color mode, but it’s not a mandate and you can indeed save an RGB image

to EPS If you have layers or alpha channels, you must save the file As A Copy;

however, additional channels are accepted as EPS data—this is how spot color

plates are saved for custom inks used in commercial signage After you choose

a filename and click OK, you will see the options for Preview and Encoding

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