Set up of pictures!

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Alejandro_Albors
Nov 10, 2006
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Hello All!

How do you set up pictures for posters or signs in photoshop?

At my work we use a 8.0mp camera to take pictures of our products for the purpose of website, posters, banner, etc. After taking the picture,I load them on photoshop, trim it and save it as high res JPEG. After that I place the picture in InDesign to work on the poster, sign or whatever I took the picture for.

My question is: How can I get more of Photoshop and high quality images? Specifically: JPEG VS TIFF or any other format, RGB VS CMYK or any other format, the higher DPI the better????, or any trick you can tell me!

thanks for your help,

Alex
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Heather Bell
Nov 10, 2006
DPI should be 300 DPI at finished size for most output.
You can place PSD files directly in InDesign, jpgs are no good for anything other than web use IMHO.
RGB vs CMYK has been discussed in these forums so much, and in such detail, and with such opposing points of view that a forum search is your best bet.
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Bernie
Nov 10, 2006
Avoid saving as JPEG as this is a lossy file format. Save as PSD instead and place those in ID
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Alejandro_Albors
Nov 10, 2006
Thanks for your answers.

What you mean by "Finished Size".
I try to do a search for RGB VS CMYK!!

Any other tip?

thanks,

Alex
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Bernie
Nov 10, 2006
Fnished size = the size it will be printed at
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Fred_Stewart
Nov 10, 2006
RGB vs. CMYK

Apples VS. Oranges.

RGB is our visual color spectrum. If you are printing to a laser or inkjet type printer leave files as RGB. Smaller files due to one less channel.

CMYK is the printed spectrum. CMYK is a smaller color space and is more limited than the RGB but if you are going to have your files printed at a commercial printer CMYK is what they will use. However most Commercial printers will either give you a CMYK profile to use when converting from RGB or they will ask you not to touch the MODE (RGB or CMYK) and they will handle the file conversions on their own.

Fred J
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Alejandro_Albors
Nov 10, 2006
Hello!

I guess, I will stick with CMYK and then ask the commercial printer what they use.

thanks for your answers,

Alex

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