Converting a Photoshop File to a PDF to attatch to an email?

Question

Hello I have designed some graphics in photoshop to go on the back of a bus, and the document size very large im trying to send it to the people who will print it by email. but its to big to send as a JAPEG iv been trying to save as a pdf but i still cant get it small enough to send by email does anyone know how i can do this without making my design go pixelated and messing it up. Any help would be great.

Answer 1

If you are sending your large format work to a service provider, DO NOT lower your resolution to compress the file! You need all the resolution you can get for press. Save it as PDF, and use the "Press Quality" setting.

Call or email the provider and find out where to either FTP your file, or burn to CD and MAIL it in if necessary.

Answer 2

When you click SAVE AS in Photoshop, select PDF.

Then uncheck the "Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities" checkbox.

On the left-hand side of the dialog box, you'll see a link for compression. Click it. Then change the color images to jpeg -> average downsampling -> and 100 dpi should be good enough. ( go 72 if it is still too big )

Then click Save -> and Confirm the Save Without Editing Capabilites dialog.

That's it. You'll have a MUCH MUCH smaller file.

Answer 3

1. You can compress your image to smaller file (but will reduce the quality of its) - when saving as jpg change the quality %

2. Converting to pdf may be the same thing as you compress image (smaller size, less quality). You can do this with adobe acrobat standard or pro version .

Answer 4

Ask the people your sending it to if the they have an FTP server that you can put it on. Email servers typically limit email attachments to 3Mbp.

Another option might be to upload to a sight like flickr where they download the original. I routinely put 3+Mb pictures up on Flickr.

Answer 5

use a pdf print driver (listed below) this will allow you to print it but instead of printing the file you will save it as a pdf that will be (hopefully) small enough to e-mail. plus you can print anything as a pdf with this. (essentially the same thing you can do with acrobat but free)

Answer 6

Just knock off the pdf extention and put it back on at the other end. If you convert it to any other type of file the vector graphics will have be rasterized. (Flattened)

Answer 7

Find some program to change the resolution to under 100. I suggest photoshop.