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Aligning and adjusting images using photoshop: Core scan example

1      About this approach

In this approach we use photoshop to align images and make image brightness, contrast and other adjustments. These instructions are written for photoshop CS6, but they should be applicable to other recent versions of Photoshop.

This approach has these advantages over aligning images in adobe illustrator or other vector package:

  1. Opportunity to automatically align images
  2. Ability to make image brightness, contrast and other adjustments live (and reversibly)
  3. Ability to make granular image adjustments (i.e. at the edges of aligned images to make them match better).

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How to compress powerpoint presentations

These instructions are applicable to Powerpoint 2011 on MacOS and Powerpoint 2013 on PC (and probably versions on either side of these).

The size of your Powerpoint presentation is mostly going to be based to the number of images you have in your presentation, image size (especially if you are using MacOS), and your default compression settings (only applicable if you are using a windows PC).

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Handling images in MS word mac 2011

These are instructions for handling images in MS word 2011 on MacOS, including instructions on outputting final PDF. These instructions probably also apply to versions form 2010-2014. Continue reading

Handling images using MS word PC (2013)

These are detailed instructions for different approaches to handling images in MS word 2013 and producing PDF export at the end. These instructions also apply generally to versions from 2010 onwards… Continue reading

Reducing the size of embedded images in your illustrator document

This post outlines the method for reducing the pixel count (resolution) of images that are embedded in an illustrator document.
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