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bluejays · 10-25-2011, 10:37 PM

So I'm preparing my halloween costume. I took higher resolution screenshots and need to print them and paste on a bristol board. Anyway, I brought it to Staples and asked them to size it but they said they don't offer that service anymore. They said to download free trial Photoshop resize and save the pictures on photoshop, and they'd be able to print it. So I ask for help here because I've never used PS. I've downloaded it but have no idea how to do any of this.

Can somebody inform me how to: take my existing pictures, create a hypothetical 20" x 30" bristol board in photoshop, resize the pictures on this hypothetical bristol board, and once decided upon a specific size, save the multiple individual pictures as jpg's? This thing is frustrating the heck outta me.

surferguy · 10-25-2011, 10:46 PM

Damn!

So much potential....

Mike F · 10-25-2011, 10:47 PM

I know the answer, but I'm not participating in this thread unless you post the pictures so we can all take a stab at fixing them for you. . . .

surferguy · 10-25-2011, 10:49 PM

^^^Potential rising...

photon · 10-25-2011, 10:49 PM

JPGs have no inherent physical size (20" x 30"), just a resolution (3000 x 2000 or whatever).

So I think they don't want them as JPGs they probably want photoshop PSDs.

You should just be able to go File, New Image and then specify the size of the new image in physical dimensions (inches), paste the images and then drag the pasted images to resize.

Keep in mind blowing them up will reduce quality, what resolution are the screenshots?

bluejays · 10-25-2011, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by photon

JPGs have no inherent physical size (20" x 30"), just a resolution (3000 x 2000 or whatever).

So I think they don't want them as JPGs they probably want photoshop PSDs.

You should just be able to go File, New Image and then specify the size of the new image in physical dimensions (inches), paste the images and then drag the pasted images to resize.

Keep in mind blowing them up will reduce quality, what resolution are the screenshots?

Resolutions vary, but more common approximately 1420x200 or so. The guy said the best is to make this "montage" in photoshop to see the size everything needs to be to fit, and suggested JPGs or PDF's of each image sized accordingly.

photon · 10-25-2011, 11:38 PM

The resolution depends entirely on how they were made, cameras range from 640x480 to 4920 x 3264 for 16 megapixel (or more for higher), or in a program they can be any size you want to make them.

If you are making a montage, then do what I said earlier (to create the base image), then just import each of the images you want to put into the montage individually and move them around and resize them.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/332/332336.html

Hanni · 10-26-2011, 07:43 AM

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and say you're going as your Facebook profile for Halloween.

Calgaryflamesgirl34 · 10-26-2011, 07:56 AM

The adobe website has great tutorials on how to use photoshop

bluejays · 10-26-2011, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by photon

The resolution depends entirely on how they were made, cameras range from 640x480 to 4920 x 3264 for 16 megapixel (or more for higher), or in a program they can be any size you want to make them.

If you are making a montage, then do what I said earlier (to create the base image), then just import each of the images you want to put into the montage individually and move them around and resize them.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/332/332336.html

Photon, thanks for the help buddy. So I opened all the individual images, moved them over to the "bristol board", went to Edit>Free Transform to adjust the size of the images (some had to increase, but most decreased), but now want to save each of those individual images that are on the bristol board, into individual files to print them in their new sizes as seen on the board. How do I do that? Keep in mind, I didn't go to Image>Image Size at any point, I just moved over the images to the board as soon as I opened them and manually resized them. Thanks.

photon · 10-26-2011, 11:11 AM

Oh I see, you're not printing the whole thing in one go, but you're printing each of the images individually and then will be manually gluing them to a bristol board?

Are the images all different sizes on the virtual bristol board then? I.e. when you end up with your stack of printed images, they'll all be different sizes from big to small?

If that's the case, then I'm not sure how to get to the next step, other than measuring the size of each image in Photoshop somehow (ruler guidelines I guess) and then creating a new PSD file for each image and setting the physical size to the desired size (i.e. if one image measures 2" x 3" then create a new file and set the physical size to 2" x 3" and then paste the image into that and save it, then give the group of files to be printed).

Or it might be easier (and cheaper) to actually get the bristol board printed as you've designed it in one shot, there's places that should do that (though don't know the cost).

Maritime Q-Scout · 10-26-2011, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Hanni

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and say you're going as your Facebook profile for Halloween.

If this is true, a word of advice from a guy who did this a few years ago:

Leave your wall blank,

Put in your "most recent status" and then an item or two of recent activity, at the top...

THEN LEAVE THE REST BLANK

I can't stress that enough.

Now, and this part is key

Bring a few sharpie markers with you when you go to the bar (or where ever you are going).

Get people to "write on your wall" aka sign your costume with the markers.

This seems like good fun, however there's a bonus, and added bonus I never realized until it happened...

On Halloween girls use the "holiday" to dress skankier and sluttier than usual. Meaning their skirts are shorter and their boobs are hanging out.

Now imagine what view you get when a girl dressed in next to nothing bends down in front of you to sign your wall...

You're welcome!

bluejays · 10-26-2011, 11:21 AM

^ We did it last year exactly like that and it worked magic. Better than any higher end costume. Best time ever, so why mess with a good thing? Anyway, I brought the file to Staple right now and because of the damn trial version, they can't print the whole thing. What a mess. It doesn't even allow you to save the thing to a pdf. I'm gonna see if Word will work. Ahhh...

topfiverecords · 10-26-2011, 11:22 AM

Hope your "bristol board" wasn't set to 72 pixels/inch. (Usually is the default)

Champion · 11-19-2011, 04:19 PM

Quick question for you guys. I've made some posters on photoshop which I thought were quite good for a newbie. i started with a white background and chose the size I wanted.

I'm doing the same thing now, but I'm trying to make a small little price pamphlet with the size 4.5"x5.5"

Here is the thing. I found a nice Christmas wallpaper on google and I want to use that as my background to start off with and I just want to write on top of it. I can't for the life of me figure out how to open a new file and start with this image at 4.5x5.5?

I have googled for the past hour...Seems so simple too.

KTrain · 11-19-2011, 04:34 PM

File > New... Set width and height. Click OK

Right click on the full size image in Google and copy (CTRL C).

Go back to photoshop and paste (CTRL P) into the document you just created.

Use the transform function (CTRL T) to adjust the image to fit your dimensions as best as possible.

Champion · 11-19-2011, 04:35 PM

Thanks a bunch!

KTrain · 11-19-2011, 04:41 PM

Forgot to mention that holding "Shift" while using the transform function will maintain the aspect ratio of the image so it doesn't get stretched.