Print designers and production artists depend on accurate measurements. That’s why Photoshop lets you set the default ruler units to whatever measurement system you’re most comfortable working with.
Rulers Photoshop uses inches as the default measurement for displaying document dimensions, but you can change this in the Units & Rulers panel of the Preferences dialog box. Select your preferred unit of measurement from the Rulers menu. Options include inches, centimeters, millimeters, pixels, points, picas, or percentages.
New Document Preset Resolutions You can also set the default settings for new preset print resolution and screen resolution documents. The values entered in these fields are the settings used for print and screen document size presets chosen from the File -->New dialog box Preset menu. Although the default suggested print resolution is 300ppi, modern studies prove that an image really needs to be only 220ppi at 100% of its intended print size to produce a high-quality print. If you are creating an image to be displayed on the Web or exclusively onscreen, the image resolution should be set to 72ppi at 100% of its intended viewing size.
Guides, Grid, Slices, & Count
The Extended version of Photoshop CS3 has added a new Count tool to the Guides, Grid, Slices & Count preference panel. This is where you can change the default colors used by these tools. Although the Count tool is really intended for use by medical professionals and not print/production designers, it uses a guide color to count with, and that’s why it’s included here.
Guides: Color Sometimes the default cyan guides can conflict with the colors of the image you’re working with. When this happens, choose a different guide color from the menu. If the color you’d like to apply is not featured in the preset menu list, choose Custom to access Photoshop’s Color Picker dialog box and select that color.
Plug-Ins
Plug-Ins now has its very own preference panel in CS3 and no longer has to share with Scratch Disks. Its former roommate has moved to the new Performance panel.
Additional Plug-Ins Folder If you have previous versions of Photoshop on your system and third-party plug-ins installed, you can load the plug-ins into Photoshop CS3 without having to reinstall them. Click the Choose button and navigate to the Photoshop X/Plug-Ins folder. If a plug-in requires the serial number of the installed legacy version of Photoshop, enter it in the field below. You can also load compatible third-party plug-ins located in different directories, or in the plug-ins folder of other applications such as Corel Painter.
Type
When designing for print, it is recommended that you set the bulk of your type in a layout application such as Adobe’s InDesign or Quark’s QuarkXPress. Type always outputs sharper when set in a layout application, or in a vector drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator or FreeHand. Ultimately, Photoshop rasterizes type, or converts it to pixels, which makes it appear overly soft on the printed page—a very undesirable effect. However, there are certain instances when you may need to work with type in Photoshop. For example, you can use Photoshop to create transparent type effects, or use type with Layer Comps to develop a series of initial designs to present to a client. Here are the preferences that matter most when working with type in Photoshop.
Use Smart Quotes You should keep this option enabled so that quotes will always display as typographer’s quotes (curled), as opposed to displaying as inch marks (straight).
Enable Missing Glyph Protection This new preference is intended for typography experts who work predominantly with large character set languages and who sometimes run into problems with missing glyph characters. This option (on by default) tells Photoshop to automatically substitute a font if a document containing text encounters a missing glyph. If you’re working with large character sets, it’s a good idea to keep this new preference turned on.
Font Preview Size Enabling this option allows you to preview fonts at the size you choose in the available font menus. Choose Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, or Huge. By disabling this option, fonts are displayed at the last chosen size. You must re-enable the preference to change the font preview size. Viewing the fonts at larger sizes can make it a lot easier to identify which ones you’d like to work with. Viewing fonts at smaller sizes preserves more space in the font menu and results in less scrolling.
Rulers Photoshop uses inches as the default measurement for displaying document dimensions, but you can change this in the Units & Rulers panel of the Preferences dialog box. Select your preferred unit of measurement from the Rulers menu. Options include inches, centimeters, millimeters, pixels, points, picas, or percentages.
New Document Preset Resolutions You can also set the default settings for new preset print resolution and screen resolution documents. The values entered in these fields are the settings used for print and screen document size presets chosen from the File -->New dialog box Preset menu. Although the default suggested print resolution is 300ppi, modern studies prove that an image really needs to be only 220ppi at 100% of its intended print size to produce a high-quality print. If you are creating an image to be displayed on the Web or exclusively onscreen, the image resolution should be set to 72ppi at 100% of its intended viewing size.
Guides, Grid, Slices, & Count
The Extended version of Photoshop CS3 has added a new Count tool to the Guides, Grid, Slices & Count preference panel. This is where you can change the default colors used by these tools. Although the Count tool is really intended for use by medical professionals and not print/production designers, it uses a guide color to count with, and that’s why it’s included here.
Guides: Color Sometimes the default cyan guides can conflict with the colors of the image you’re working with. When this happens, choose a different guide color from the menu. If the color you’d like to apply is not featured in the preset menu list, choose Custom to access Photoshop’s Color Picker dialog box and select that color.
Plug-Ins
Plug-Ins now has its very own preference panel in CS3 and no longer has to share with Scratch Disks. Its former roommate has moved to the new Performance panel.
Additional Plug-Ins Folder If you have previous versions of Photoshop on your system and third-party plug-ins installed, you can load the plug-ins into Photoshop CS3 without having to reinstall them. Click the Choose button and navigate to the Photoshop X/Plug-Ins folder. If a plug-in requires the serial number of the installed legacy version of Photoshop, enter it in the field below. You can also load compatible third-party plug-ins located in different directories, or in the plug-ins folder of other applications such as Corel Painter.
Type
When designing for print, it is recommended that you set the bulk of your type in a layout application such as Adobe’s InDesign or Quark’s QuarkXPress. Type always outputs sharper when set in a layout application, or in a vector drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator or FreeHand. Ultimately, Photoshop rasterizes type, or converts it to pixels, which makes it appear overly soft on the printed page—a very undesirable effect. However, there are certain instances when you may need to work with type in Photoshop. For example, you can use Photoshop to create transparent type effects, or use type with Layer Comps to develop a series of initial designs to present to a client. Here are the preferences that matter most when working with type in Photoshop.
Use Smart Quotes You should keep this option enabled so that quotes will always display as typographer’s quotes (curled), as opposed to displaying as inch marks (straight).
Enable Missing Glyph Protection This new preference is intended for typography experts who work predominantly with large character set languages and who sometimes run into problems with missing glyph characters. This option (on by default) tells Photoshop to automatically substitute a font if a document containing text encounters a missing glyph. If you’re working with large character sets, it’s a good idea to keep this new preference turned on.
Font Preview Size Enabling this option allows you to preview fonts at the size you choose in the available font menus. Choose Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, or Huge. By disabling this option, fonts are displayed at the last chosen size. You must re-enable the preference to change the font preview size. Viewing the fonts at larger sizes can make it a lot easier to identify which ones you’d like to work with. Viewing fonts at smaller sizes preserves more space in the font menu and results in less scrolling.
Units and Rulers in Photoshop for Printing
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