Photoshop CS5 / Bridge CS5 PDF

Slide Show

Instructions for Photoshop CS5 (PC or Mac), though most applies also to CS4
The PDF Slide Show component of Photoshop was moved from Photoshop CS5 into Bridge CS5
This Slide Show preserves Adobe RGB (1998) color space, whereas PowerPoint mangles color
Photoshop is NOT needed to view the slideshow, instead just a PDF reader such as Adobe Reader

1) Create a folder of resized & compressed JPEGs (1024x768 pixels for projection, 1680x1050
pixels for higher res monitors; images need not be named in numerical order as in past
2) PDF Slideshow NO LONGER is listed under FILE menu Automate PDF Presentation
INSTEAD: File Menu Browse in Bridge
OR: open BRIDGE CS5 on your own initiative
3) BRIDGE CS5 window at center on bottom
CONTENT window locate your folder of images open your folder
thumbnails of your images distribute across Content window
you may redistribute images by clicking & dragging into new positions
you must select individually (Command/Control + click each), or highlight, or select All
(Command/Control + A) of the images you wish for the slide show, which then will appear in
the PREVIEW window
4) BRIDGE CS4 window on right
OUTPUT tab at upper right corner scroll down to Output (Command/Control + F4)
select PDF icon on left (not WEB GALLERY icon on right)
Template: scroll to Maximum size or to Custom
to Save Custom template, Click Save icon between Template pull-down menu & Trash icon
Save Template, name it 1024x768 (or: 1680x1050, etc) Save
5) Document section
Page Preset: Custom
Size: Custom
Width: 1024 pixels
Height: 768 pixels
Quality: 72 ppi or 96 ppi
Quality Slider: 60 (or 70 or 80)
Background: Black
6) Layout section
Columns:1; Rows: 1
un-checkmark: Rotate for Best Fit
checkmark: Repeat One Photo per Page
7) Overlays & Header & Footer sections
leave un-checkmarked & blank
8) Playback section
checkmark: Open in Full Screen Mode
un-checkmark: Automatic advance to the next page
checkmark: Loop after Last Page
Transition: Box
Direction: Out
Speed: Medium
continued on next page

9) Watermark section
leave blank

10) checkmark: View PDF After Save

11) click Save
12) Save As dialog box
File name (Mac: Save As): Whatever.pdf
Save in (Mac: Where): scroll to Desktop
click Save
13) images are processed; then PDF folder loads to desktop; after long pause, slideshow opens
if does not open in Slide Show mode, in ADOBE READER: Window menu (or View menu)
Full Screen View
14) (Mac only) Full Screen dialog box checkmark Remember my choice, then choose Yes
15) to navigate while viewing in ADOBE READER:
FORWARD: Left-Click mouse or Right Arrow key
REVERSE: Right-Click mouse or Left Arrow key
EXIT slide show: ESC (escape) key
RETURN to slide show: Window menu (or View menu) Full Screen View
16) or return to BRIDGE CS5 to view in BRIDGE:
View menu Slideshow Options for further tweaking
Slideshow Options dialog box opens
select your options, then click Play

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Copyfright? [ Not] Permission granted for reproduction with attribution:
Mark M. Braunstein -- Connecticut College mark.braunstein@conncoll.edu