Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Chapter Fourteen Output

I recently came across a weathered wood box in my parent’s attic. The old box caught my eye, so I opened it and discovered hundreds of well-preserved glass plate negatives that were taken in China in 1906. As I carefully looked through these old images, I thought that I absolutely had to make some prints so that others could see these powerful images.

The same can be said about all our images stored on our boxy computers: Viewing them on a computer is wonderful, but there is something more powerful about seeing them in print.

This chapter focuses on the essential skills needed for outputting images from Photoshop to the Web, devices, PDFs, and prints. I like to think of this chapter as the moment the focus ...