Photoshop to Word (hell) 1

[funkymonk]

Hi,

I have an image in photoshop which is a letter head. It is 21 cm width (@72dpi) which is A4 size.

I place this in word which is (without margins) 21 cm width after saving it as a jpg. Problem is it's showing as 14 cm width @ 100%. I tried using a BMP which did come out at 21cm, 100% in word but is blurry, looks like I resized it larger than it should be but I didn't.

Can anyone help?

If you need more info just ask.

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[SPYDERIX]

Importing pictures into MS Word is a huge pain, I haven't really been able to figure it out, but what does work is: make you picture in PS 5 times bigger or so, and in your case b/c you are making letterhead just use the top part and the bottom part and not the whole page. (Do you know what I mean by that), then in MS Word to import a picture INSERT|PICTURE|FROM FILE, then b/c you have made the picture really big you can just stretch its corner out to the size of the windows in MS Word.

But wait, why are you putting this into MS Word, so that you can type and print it from MS Word. Let me explain a few things about that, first of all if you cover the entire screen with a picture you won't be able to type b/c the picture will be in the way, unless there is some way of making that picture a background image. Secondly why don't you just print from photohsop, that would save you way more hastle, just print your letterhead out from Photoshop and then feed the letterhead through your printer again and print your Word file onto it.

I'm an going to quickly explain bleeding. Bleeding is a tenchique used by publication companies to get ink to "bleed" of the page. Example - most letterheads have a bar at the bottom the looks like it got the edge of the paper and then fell off the edge. There is consistant color right the edges. This only happanes when you make the images width and height just a bit bigger to extent past the printable area. Also, printing companies use larger pieces of paper, and print the image, then cut it down to A4 size or whatever size is needed.

In your case (now I'm not sure what kind of printer you have, but most can't really print absolutely zero margins) there will always be the thinest white space. So make your image bigger than the printable area, then set your margins to be the smallest, then when you goto pront, it will say something like: "Image is too big, clipping will occur" or something along those lines, just agree to that, then see how it prints out using Photoshop. MS Word isn't really the best program for printing things like that, b/c you will have to stretch your image out, and pixalation might occur.

Don't forget about paper quality. If you are using white, I would suggest you get bright white semi-glossy at around 40-50 lbs.

Hope this helps!

¡Buena Suerte!

 

[TFfan]

Like you two, I have the same problems with MS Word and if it has to be MS Word, I do what Spyderix suggests (make it really large). Alternatively, I find Word Perfect a better place to import graphics from PS. It's still not perfect, but it's a definite improvement.

 

[SPYDERIX]

I still think your best option is to print right from PS, Then there is no hastle about importing pictures, then re-sizing, etc.

¡Buena Suerte!

 

[funkymonk]

SPYDERIX

It's a request from my one of my Directors. She wants our company letter head digitally so she can email it to people in her mails. I did it by taking the original graphic (the one we sent to the printers for our batch of head paper etc.), chopping the top logo off and placing it in word. I lowered the res to 72 because it was being used for screen. I then did a 300dpi to see if that worked but to no avail. I will try your method tomorrow when I'm in work.

PS. Still yet to go through your faq on print. I will though, eventually (or the next time I do something for print

TFfan
I don't have Word Perfect, only that darn Word! I shiver when anyone asks me to do something in it LOL

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[fjp476]

I've found that if you set your resolution to 300 dpi and make the psd 8 1/2 X 11 inches (to match a Word doc) then make the graphic as it should appear on the page in Word and then copy and paste it into a new psd (which will default to the size of the graphic) and save the file as a jpg you get a pretty good match for MS Word. Cheers~Frank

 

[funkymonk]

What kind of file sizes do you get using this method?

rod@sameplanet.co.uk
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[Dilyias]

First, resize your image to the correct size in PS. I'm assuming you are using DPI of 150, 300, or 600 or something.

Save your image as a TIFF.

Open word and insert->picture->from file. It will come in smaller.

Format the text wrapping to 'behind text'

Just drag the upper left corner to where you want it positioned on the page, then reset the picture size. (Again in picture formatting)

Presto, it should return to whatever size you specified in PS.

Hope this helps!

-Eric

 

[Chadoe]

The big item you need out of all of these is the 300 dpi @ 100%. This is the default printer resolution for most desktop publishing programs.

Create your image at whatever size you need @ 300 dpi. Then save it in whatever format your version of Word will except JPG ( low compression is perfectly fine) or Tiff is what I use.

Big thing to also remember. You need to know what the minimum printer margins are and create the graphic narrower than the those margins. The reason for this is that whatever printer you send these to will crop the edges of the graphics to its preset margin minimums whenever they print.

Good Luck,
greg b