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Exporting multiple images to a single document - Photoshop Tutorial

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Exporting multiple images to a single document

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- [Instructor] Often when I'm collaborating with others and I need to hand off images to a client, I either need to hand off a series of small image thumbnails or create a more formal multi-page presentation. Let's take a look at how easy Photoshop makes these two tasks. Under the file menu, I'll choose automate and then PDF presentation. We can browse to select our images. In this case, I will select all six of the images from Australia and open those. Then on the right hand side, we can choose between a multi-page document or a presentation. If I select presentation, we have a number of presentation options. For example, we can change the timing for the auto advancement as well as enable the loop after last page and add any transitions. For now, I'm going to set it back to a multi-page document. I'll set the background to black and the font size to 12, and I'll just include the file name and the extension, but you can also add a number of additional metadata fields. Alright, I'll choose save. We'll give this a name and save it back to our sharing images folder. One of the nice things about saving this as a PDF is that under the security area you can require a password to open the document and you can also require a password to restrict printing, editing, and other tasks. So I'll go ahead and enable this first one and then type in a password. When I choose to save this, it's going to ask me to confirm the password and then it will open each one of those images and save them as a PDF. If we return to Bridge, we can see that presentation. I'll just double click to open it. It's going to ask me for that password, and once I enter it in, now we can see the multi-page PDF. Now it's opened it in Acrobat for me. If you don't have Acrobat, you can open it in the Acrobat Reader. Alright, let's close that, return to Photoshop. Now if I only need say, thumbnails instead of an individual image per page, we can create a contact sheet. I can go to file and then automate and then contact sheet. But Photoshop doesn't actually have a lot of options for the contact sheet, and Bridge has far more. So I'll select cancel, we'll go to Bridge, and then I'll select the images that I want to include and choose the output workspace. Now we have an output preview area and a number of different options on the right hand side. So we can choose our document size. We can customize the background color, the resolution and the quality, as well as how the thumbnails are placed and whether or not we show their file name and file extension. Under grids and margins, We can increase or decrease the columns and rows as well as the cell spacing. And under header and footer, we could add a header. Here I've got Australia. Let's go ahead and center align that and we'll just make it a little bit larger. We could also include a footer if we wanted to as well as page numbers. If we needed to add a watermark on top of our image, we could choose from the text watermark or from the image watermark, and then upload an image and determine the placement of it. For PDF properties, again we have the ability for security, so we have password protection to open the document as well as additional permissions. Okay, for now, I'm going to select those images in the film strip and drag them to the canvas in order to add them. If I wanted to make a little bit better use of this space, I could choose to rotate the thumbnails for best fit. That would just make these a little bit larger. And after setting all of this up, if I thought I was going to use it again and again, I could click on the plus icon in order to save a template. For now, I'll choose to export to PDF. I'll give it a name, CS for contact sheet, saving it to that sharing images folder as a PDF document, and here we can see all six of those thumbnails with their file names in Acrobat. So there you go, two easy ways to hand off multiple images to a client, either as a secure multi-page PDF, or as a contact sheet filled with multiple image thumbnails.

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