digital images in pagemaker

[franchise01]

Hey

I am having trouble when i place images from my digital camera into pagemaker. They are fine in photoshop, but when i put them into pagemaker they show up pixelated. Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[angler2229]

Franchise,

If you want a little better look at what photos look like in PM, go to File> Preferences> General and click the High Resolution button.

Make sure you are saving your photos from PhotoShop to a folder nearby your PM document, then File> Place from that folder into PM. This is so proper links to the PM document are made.

How do they print or distill to a dpf? Photos usually look somewhat pixelated in PM because it's just a layout program. Are the photos of adequate resolution to start with?

I do digital yearbooks and always make sure the resolution is 300dpi. They print really well when converted over to half tone in the yearbooks.

You can also increase the resolution of a photo in PhotShop by going to Image> Resize> Image Size. Then increase the resolution to at least 300 dpi (this is how I do it in PhotoShop Elements). You'll notice the photo will jump in its overall size. Resave the photo as a Tif with no compression or an EPS. Then File> Place in PM.

Good luck,

Daniel

 

[Eggles]

Franchise01

>>i place images from my digital camera into pagemaker<<

In what file format are the images you are placing into PM? Are you editing/resizing/resampling at all in Photoshop?

Daniel

>>You can also increase the resolution of a photo in PhotShop by going to Image> Resize> Image Size. Then increase the resolution to at least 300 dpi (this is how I do it in PhotoShop Elements). You'll notice the photo will jump in its overall size. <<

I am a little concerned about the final sentence here. Are you saying the photo jumps in file size or dimensions (w x h)?

Because assuming you are starting with a 72 dpi image (as they usually come in from a digital camera) then neither of these should happen.

Let's say you open a max quality digital photo in Photoshop (and it is probably the same in Elements). When you check Image>Image Size, let's say it is 10" x 14" @ 72dpi. If you leave the Resample Image box UNCHECKED and change the resolution to 300 dpi, the dimensions DECREASE (to 2.4" x 3.4" approx) i.e. the image dimensions are reduced - and in the same ratio as the resolution has been increased. The file size does not change - as no pixels have been added or removed - they have just been 'pushed' closer together i.e. pixel 'density' and therefore resolution has increased.

If you change the resolution and leave the Resample Image box CHECKED, then Photoshop interpolates i.e. it adds pixels, but only by 'guessing' what colour they should be, based on an average of the colours of the neighbouring pixels (bicubic sampling). File size in this case WILL increase, because of the pixels that PS has added. However, this is NOT a good way of increasing resolution, as the result is often quite fuzzy/blurry - understandably - as PS has had to guess the colour of the interpolated pixels. This may be OK if the pic has broad areas of same/similar colour, but most photos don't.

So, if you need to increase the resiolution of a pic, you will have to sacrifice its dimensions if you want a good clear image, as resolution and density are inversely proportional - as one increases, the other must decrease.

>>Resave the photo as a Tif with no compression or an EPS.<<

There is absolutely no point in saving a raster image from Photoshop as an EPS, unless you have created a duotone. A Photoshop EPS is just a TIF wrapped in further unnecessary information, that certainly does not give it scalability as a true vector EPS from Illustrator/Coredraw would. In fact, there is another distinct disadvantage to saving raster images as EPS apart from the increased file size - they will not print well to a non-postscript printer (only the TIF preview prints). So you might as well save it as a TIF, which will allow it to print on any printer.

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, Franchies01,

> > They are fine in photoshop, but when i put them into pagemaker they show up pixelated.

Is it just the preview in PM which looks less than perfect?
How do your images print?

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.