Hour23.Printing and Publishing

Hour 23. Printing and Publishing

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

• Choosing a Printer

• Preparing to Print

• Printing the Page

• Preparing the Image

• Picking the Paper

• Placing Photoshop Images in Other Programs

We're almost done You've created some wonderful Photoshop art, and you would like to hang it on the walls and send copies to your friends . You want to use your pictures in newsletters and PowerPoint presentations, maybe even in databases. (You would probably also like to add these masterpieces to your web page, but you'll learn that in the next hour.) Even in this brave new world of the Web-enabled camera phone, the inexcusably cool iPod Photo, and other electronic media, printing isn't going away, and it never will. Getting your image to output correctly is as important as any other step in the process of image creation, and that's why it deserves its own hour.

Printing should be easy, right? Choose the Print command and watch your image emerge on paper. Unfortunately, getting Photoshop images to print well can involve quite a few variables and decisions. In this hour, we'll look at what those are, from choosing a printer through setting up inks, separations, halftones , and other issues.

Be warned . Some of this stuff gets into detail and gets very technical, and some of it is irrelevant if you print to only one kind of printer. Feel free to ignore the sections that don't relate to the kind(s) of printing you do. If none of it makes sense, stick with the default settings. Your pages will be, at the very least, adequately printed.