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Photo Shop Editing

Jan 12, 2006 6:25AM PST

Hello All,
I am very new to photoshop and need some help. I own a small company and I have about 30 employess. I want my employees to wear ID badges. I have bought avery ID
software kit but cannot seem to get it to do what i want and i have called there tech support and it is now good. How can i copy and ID into photoshop and edit it?? Add text or take text away??
Thanks in advance

Boomer

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That is something that Photoshop can do quite easily,
Jan 12, 2006 7:48AM PST

but there are two problems:

1. You haven't told us what the specs for the IDs are, or what equipment is available to do the job.
2. While the job is simple, understanding how to do it requires some familiarity with Photoshop. You would be well served by finding some tutorials on the web. You could also check your library for back issues of the Photoshop magazine.

Assuming you want photo IDs, the procedure would be something like:

1. Open an employee's photo if its coming from a camera, or use your scanner to scan it in.
2. Adjust the image to the desired size (resize it).
3. Increase the canvas size to the size of the ID.
4. Using the text tool, add the desired text.
5. Put the appropriately sized paper into your printer.
6. Print the ID.

Use Google to find tutorials. One tutorial about making ID cards is here.

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Photo shop question
Jan 13, 2006 6:17AM PST

Thanks for your advice...2 questions 1 if i scan it from my scanner into photoshop my scanner software only gives me 3 options to save as..jpeg tiff and bmp...should i get an OCR Software..?? Or how do i scan it into photoshop and make it a psd file???

Thanks Boomer

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Photoshop can usually get images directly from the
Jan 13, 2006 6:51AM PST

scanner by using the File -> Import command. Import will start the scanner software, and the resultant image will be passed back to Photoshop. When you're done scanning, just close the scanner software. If your scanner's driver is not listed in Photoshop, you can operate the scanner in stand alone mode. If you do that, save the image as a tif file. Photoshop can read that file and work with the image. It can also read jpegs, etc., but I think tif is always the best format. If you need to save the image after working with it, I would save it as a tif file.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. It converts a scanned image to text. I don't think that will help you.