Kim Lumpkin ([info]kaylum) wrote,
@ 2009-07-13 09:41:00
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Current mood: busy
Current music:Jerry Reed - "East Bound and Down"

Calling all adobe and/or photoshop whizzes
I recently took my “4 of 2” book to Office Max for scanning, and since I’m still not terribly adept at working with image files, I have a couple of issues/questions:

1.The whole book is saved as a series of pictures in a single file in adobe format, which is great for scrolling through the book, but doesn’t allow me to post any of it in livejournal or facebook (as far as I can tell). I will hopefully have my own website someday for my work, but for now I’d like to post it (or at least parts of it) for my friends to see (the ones who haven’t already, hehe). I’m assuming this will involve saving it in .mpg or .jpg format, but I have no clue how to do so…any ideas?

2.To add the typed lyrics to the book where I wanted them, I used the very primitive method of gluing them onto the pictures – with rubber cement. Of course this was extremely foolish since over time the rubber cement darkened and is now very visible in spots, so dark in some places that it makes the text impossible to read. I need to find a way to clean up these areas on the images and replace them with clean type, which should be pretty easy in a file, but again I have no idea how.

Any advice on either of these things would be greatly, greatly appreciated!

Love,

“Kay”




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[info]dbrycegh
2009-07-13 04:18 pm UTC (link)
1. So you mean they gave you a .pdf file, yes? You can capture individual pages as screenshots and save them as .jpg files. Open Adobe Acrobat and scroll to the page you want, so the whole thing is visible. Press Alt+PrntScrn to put an image of the window onto the clipboard. Open Photoshop or another graphics editor, and paste the image into a new document. Crop the Acrobat window trimmings out so that only the page remains, and save the file.

You'll want to keep the .pdf file around too, though, because it's going to have the images at a higher pixel resolution than your screenshots will. The .jpg files will be useful for sharing online, but no substitute for the .pdf when it comes to printing.


2. This might require some doctoring in Photoshop or another graphics editor. Or maybe the full version of Acrobat (i.e. the editor, not the mere Reader) has an easier way to do it, but the editing tools in my version of it are pretty bare-bones. It lets me edit an existing text block, for example, but not create a new one, or whiten the background behind it.

The complication is getting the images into the graphics editor at a sufficient resolution. You could try zooming in on the pages in Acrobat to get hi-rez screenshots, then pasting them together like a puzzle in the graphics editor... but I wonder if you might be better off re-scanning with new posterboard text blocks. Not sure which way would be faster.

If you'd like me to do any of this for you, even just on a single page as an example, I'd be happy to help.

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[info]kaylum
2009-07-15 04:46 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Bryce! That was very helpful, lots of good info. I'll let you know how it goes :)

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[info]sundremer
2009-07-14 09:02 pm UTC (link)
I could probably help you with it. You can send me the file and then I can work on it, or you can come over one day and we can work on it together.

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(Anonymous)
2009-07-15 04:45 pm UTC (link)
That'd be awesome! How does this Friday afternoon sound?

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[info]kaylum
2009-07-15 04:46 pm UTC (link)
Oops, sorry that was me, thought I was logged in!

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