I did a draft for a brochure in .psd at 150dpi. Apparently it was approved and they want it exactly as it is. Since it is for printing, I need to make it at 300dpi. How am I going to do this? Can I place the psd in illustrator and save it as pdf and open the pdf file in photoshop and specify 300 as my resolution? Will this work? Desperately seeking help.
(a) What versions are you using;
(b) Did you do the text in PS; and
(c) Do you still have the unflattenned file?
(a) What versions are you using;
I used ver 7.0 but I have access to a CS in another machine
(b) Did you do the text in PS; and
All the text are in PS
(c) Do you still have the unflattenned file?
Yes
Need your expert advice.
First, save the file.
Then save it again with a different name. This ensures you don't mess up your original.
Throw away all hidden layers that you won't be using.
Hide text layers.
Merge visible.
Unhide text layers.
Image>Image size. Change the resolution now, making sure you are resampling.
Save the file, close it, and open in illustrator. Check the option to recreate text so it's editable.
Should look correct in illustrator. Select everything and go to Type>create outlines.
Save as EPS.
Hopfully you didn't have any text effects in PS. Those are a little more bothersome.
If it is a brochure that is to have any shelf life at all and the customer was to understand that they were looking at a draft then you should recreate it and do it the right way.
Images at 300 dpi - CMYK w/PS / Illustrations in Illustrator and then everything brought together(including type or creative writing) in either Quark or InDesign (Publisher if that is all you have) if you ever have to make any changes or upgrades in the brochure in 6 months or a year then you are all set to go, otherwise you will be re-creating the whole thing anyway. And my guess is that you will be making changes on this project. Besides all of that your customer is not viewing what they will be getting in the final print and that is risky business.
I am not saying Phil isn't right, I am pointing out that you are making a risky move by just changing the resolution and not doing it the way you should have done it in the beginning.
You are right of course, I was just detailing the way to get it into illustrator.
Just did this for an ad...
Originally posted by Phil_The_Rodent
First, save the file.
Then save it again with a different name. This ensures you don't mess up your original.
Throw away all hidden layers that you won't be using.
Hide text layers.
Merge visible.
Unhide text layers.
Image>Image size. Change the resolution now, making sure you are resampling.
I think
Arriving this one step will notice
It is best to enlarge the sketch with 10% comparison
You can make a photoshop action to attain
My English is not good, I am a Chinese
Hoping you can see to understand
Resampling an image multiple times will blur an image more than resampling once.
TOP: Resampled using 110% increments
MIDDLE: Resampled once
BOTTOM: Resmapled without rasterizing text
Thanks for all the reply. I ended up redoing the whole thing again as they wanted to change colour theme. Thanks for all the help
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