Creating a PDF Presentation is a great way to get your work in front of clients, friends, or family. What's nice about sending your work this way is you have total control over the presentation of your images. You can set up the PDF to open as a slide show presentation with transitions and everything, or just open as a regular PDF. Even better is the fact that you can control security settings, so if want to send a high-quality PDF but don't want anyone printing your work without paying for it first, that's no problem. Step OneIn Bridge, select the images that you want to include in the PDF Presentation. From the Tools menu, choose Photoshop>PDF Presentation. Photoshop will open, along with the PDF Presentation dialog. Here, you'll be able to add, duplicate, or remove any images, if you'd like. The presentation will show the images as they are listed, from top to bottom in this dialog. You can change the order in which the images appear by clicking-and-dragging the names up or down in the Source Files section.
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Step TwoIn the Output Options section, you can choose your regular Multi-Page Document PDF or you can select Presentation. Since the whole point of this is to present images to someone, let's choose Presentation here. Once you do this, the Presentation Options below will become enabled and you can choose how many seconds between each slide, whether or not to start over again after the presentation is done, and what type of transition you want between each slide. After you make these choices, click Save.
Step ThreeThe next step is to pick where you want to save this PDF. Most of the time, I'll just save it to the Desktop and name the file based on the photo shoot.
Step FourThe last dialog you'll see is the Save Adobe PDF dialog. Here's where you make all of your choices about the PDF itself. Now, at first it may seem like there are a lot of choices here and, well, there are. Don't worry, thoughthere are only a few key ones that you'll need to worry about. First, you'll need to choose a quality setting from the Adobe PDF Preset pop-up menu. If you're emailing this presentation to someone, then it's usually best to choose Smallest File Size. However, if you want a high-quality PDF, suitable for printing, then choose High Quality Print. Also, if you're going to put this onto a webpage, then turn on the Optimize for Fast Web Preview checkbox in the Options section. Finally, I usually turn on the View PDF After Saving checkbox as well, so I can see the final result when I'm done. Step FiveThe only other option that you'll really need to worry about if you want to get through this quickly is Security. Click on Security in the list on the left side of the dialog. On the right side, you'll see the options change. If you're posting this to a webpage and don't want anyone other than the person it's intended for to view it, then turn on the Require a Password to Open the Document checkbox in the Document Open Password section. Then, enter a password in the Document Open Password field. Don't forget to remember the password so you can give it to your client.
Step SixThe next section is actually very useful. Let's say you created a high-quality PDF so your images look their best. However, you don't want people printing these images until they've paid for them. You can turn on the Use a Password to Restrict Printing, Editing, and Other Tasks checkbox in the Permissions section. Then create another password and enter it in the Permissions Password field. (Have a second password in mind for this option because you can't use the same one for both security settings.) Once you've set the security settings, just click the Save PDF button and Photoshop will create the PDF wherever you saved it. If you selected View PDF After Saving in Step Four, then the PDF should open, as well.
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