Letterhead Help!!!
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- canoe0
Does that work for print? 8bit PNG?
- Nathan_Adams0
Yeah, as long as you don't get any dithering as a result of being limited to 256 indexed colour, it's looks fine.
- canoe0
Ughfuck, I have to do this for another Binder Cover - I think I will go with the watermark method since the design is the "background" and they will need to type over the cover art. Grrr- just paste it into the header and lock it downmonospaced
- will try this nowcanoe
- trooperbill0
set as a background image and have the content flow over the top.
- nato0
I always place PNGs instead of JPGs, as JPGs tend to bloat up Word documents after being resaved. I also like to do any vector graphics (logos, static type, graphics, etc) at 10x the size. So I'll design in Indesign or Illustrator, save a PDF, open it in Photoshop at size but at 720 dpi. Then flatten, trim, convert to sRGB, and change the dpi to 72dpi. This file will be very large in 'physical dimensions', but not really so big in filesize. Then save as PNG. I'll then optimize it with ImageAlpha ( http://pngmini.com/ ), which will strip out the PS bloat and halve the filesize. Then place the PNG in Word at 10% the size. This will print graphics really sharp every time. This works, I guarantee it.
- canoe0
what if you unclick washout for watermark and it still seems to show up in Lighten mode?
- canoe0
The watermark idea worked fine.They now want it in Header and Footer, two separate images.
This thing is not anchoring and acting crizzy - do I open a 300dpi file in PS and then save it out as PNG24?
- ali0
This has always worked for me:
- Design in Indesign or other at letterhead size
- Export as standard high res PDF, 300 dpi cmyk
- Open PDF in PShop
(Page options: Crop to: Trim box, Res 300dpi, cmyk)
- Crop header (include area from top and side margins to edge of page) or crop/copy into a new window if there is a Header & Footer.
- Convert to RGB, flatten and save as JPG (uncheck 'Embed colour profile), quality 10 (or 9 if smaller file size is required)
- Crop/trim Footer: save as above
- Open new word doc
- VIEW / Header and Footer
- INSERT / Picture from file
- Double-click image: Size to 100%, Wrapping style behind text, Horizontal alignment to centre
- Click ADVANCED button / Picture position / Horizontal Alignment CENTRED relative to page / Vertical alignment TOP relative to page.
- Check all OPTIONS except 'picture placeholder'
- OK, then do the same for footer except align to BOTTOM relative to page.
- Close HEADER/FOOTER view
- FORMAT / Document: Set TOP margin to where you want the copy to start and side margins as required.Note: Word fucking sucks balls and will do everything in it's power to fuck you up at every opportunity.
- comprehensive, and I couldn't agree with your last statement moremonospaced
- nato0
Just place the PNGs in the header.