Male Speaker: Now the same scrolling and zooming rules apply here in Photoshop that you have already learned from InDesign, so if we hold down the spacebar, we can scroll this image around anywhere on screen, which is very handy, because you will notice that that f key function removes any of the rulers in Scroll bars around the outside, so lot of people wonder what to do when that happens, simply use the spacebar. It's much more efficient.
Now the first thing we want to do is create a guide that goes straight down the center of this character to define where the center of the spread is going to be. So let's press Command+R or Ctrl+R on the PC, it's not going to open camera rule this time, this is actually the Rulers command, and this is again, the same in Illustrator and in InDesign. Now what we will do is simply drag a vertical guide over from the left hand side towards the center of the image, and what you will notice is, it kind of snaps in. You are trying to get it just to the center of the nose and it keeps snapping to the left hand side, but that's just the default function of Photoshop. Any layer that's currently selected, a guide that you drag in will snap vertically and horizontally to the center point. However, if we zoom in closer, then we will be able to position it more accurately.
So, just like in InDesign, hold down Command+Spacebar or Ctrl+Spaceabr on a PC and let's click-and-drag across the face to zoom that up to fill the screen. Now that we are a little bit closer, it's very easy to pick up that guide to move it as long as we are on the right tool. Now I currently have my Marquee Tool selected, if you are on your Move Tool, which is this one over here, consider that basically like the Selection Tool, and your guide will pick up immediately. Now I mentioned earlier on about the keyboard shortcut in InDesign for that tool was V, it is exactly the same here in Photoshop. So if you are not on the Move Tool, hit the V key, you now are, you can click on the guide, and then drag it into a more central location right between the eyebrows and down the center of the nose. Now we have got vertical alignment here for the spread, but we just want to make sure that the image itself is perfectly straight, so when we bring it in, so it doesn't sort of hang down or were shot at an angle.
For that, we can use another guide at the top, just drag on down and may be check that the ears are aligned, just the very top sitting there, it is close enough, within a few pixels, but I am happy that that will sit very centrally on the page. Now feel free to just Undo that, so that guide disappears. Next thing we want to do now is crop this image to the right dimensions for our spread, which you remember was around 315x150 mm. So if we come up to the Marquee Tool here inside the Tools Palette, we can click-and-drag and draw shape any size that we want to, but it doesn't really give us the overall ratio of the file that we are trying to drop it into. We just click and deselect, and instead, come up to the Control Palette here at the top, again, very similar to InDesign, and where it says Style Normal, let's change that to Fixed Aspect Ratio. What we can do now is in the width, let's key in at 315. Hit the Tab key, go across to the Height, and key in 150. If you now hit Return or Enter, click-and-drag anywhere with that shape, you will see that when you move cursor up or down, it is always locked in to the exact Aspect Ratio for the InDesign file.
So very cool that we took the information from one document, and then now using it inside Photoshop. Now what we are going to do, is just press Command or Control and hit minus (-), so we can zoom the image down, again, exactly the same as we did in InDesign, just scroll over here. The other reason we placed this guide in the center, is that this is where the center of our Marquee wants to be, so we can crop the image down. So it's perfectly centered when we bring it into InDesign. Now as you have already seen, if you click-and-drag with this tool, it always draws on the upper left hand side. Well, we can actually cheat that. Just make sure nothing is selected, instead, hold down your Option key or your Alt key on the PC, let's position the cursor somewhere in the center of the nose, or just between the mouth and the nose on this graphic, and then click-and-drag, and you will notice that the Option key is forcing the frame to draw from its center, which is perfectly aligned on the guide that we drew.
Now let's drag all the way out until we hit the very right hand side, and this is one of the reasons we are doing this entire function. The left hand side has actually more image space than there is on the right. If we were to place this in InDesign, we would have to move everything around to get it into final position. Since as we are working in Photoshop, we may as well do this at this point in time. Now the vertical position of this frame, I want you to just to position it above this dark curve that is down here on the sleeve, so anything above that, just slightly above it will do just fine, just means that we won't see any of those darker pixels when we drop it into InDesign, keeps the edge nice and clean. Now the reason we have drawn this Marquee, is we want to crop the image down, and get rid of all this extra space around the outside, and normally, most people use their Crop Tool to perform such a function. Well, because we have already got the Marquee drawn, we don't have to go back and recreate using that Crop Tool, we can simply come up to the Image menu, and go straight down, and choose the Crop function there, and it will crop down to the size we have selected.
Now just click to deselect that Marquee, the next thing we want to do, is check that the size of this document is perfectly scaled to fit into InDesign at 100%. Remember we scaled up the overall quality of this from within the Ruler dialog. We may have got it twice as big as we actually need, and yes, we can scale it down when we come into InDesign, but then you have got a file that's twice as big in memory than necessary when you printed out, it is going to take longer to print out. So what we will do instead is come up to the Image menu, and you will see the image size command, and finally, after all these years, Photoshop CS2 actually has a keyboard shortcut for Image size, a very welcome, I know by every Photoshop user, so call up Image size, and let's change our values here from inches to millimeters for the Width and Height, and you can see it is just slightly larger, not much, but worth saving a little bit of memory. So the current file size is around 22 megabytes, and this is RGB only. We are going to convert this to CMYK, which will make it slightly bigger.
Let's change the Width here to 315. You will notice the height changes automatically to 150, but the file size is now reduced down just over 3 megabytes. So every little bit saved, is going to make your workflow even faster. So go ahead and click OK. The file will shift down very slightly in size. Let's come back up now to the Image menu, go down to Mode and change it from an RGB file, remember it came from a digital camera, and let's convert it to CMYK color, so it's ready to be output for Print.
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