Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

7. Choose the desired paper size. If you’re using special photo
   paper, consult the paper’s packaging to find out the physical
   page dimensions. In the case of my Premium Glossy Photo
   Paper, each piece of paper measures 8-by-10 inches, slightly
   smaller than the letter-size format.
   
   
   • Under Windows, click the Advanced button and choose
     your option from the Paper Size pop-up menu. Then click
     OK twice to exit the Advanced and Printer Settings dia-
     log boxes.
   
   
   • On the Mac, choose your printer from the Printer pop-up
     menu. Next, select the page size from the Paper Size pop-
     up menu. Then click the OK or Save button.
     You should end up back in the comprehensive Print dialog box.
   
   
   
   

   8. Change the paper orientation. Since we’re
   
      working with an image that is wider than
   
      it is tall, it makes sense (and saves paper)
   
      to change the paper orientation to match.
   
      Make sure the paper orientation option next
   
      to the Print Settings button is set to land-
   
      scape mode (as it is in Figure 12-7) so that
   
      the image prints horizontally.
   
   9. Scale the print size. Speaking of maximiz-
   
      ing paper real estate, we continue to have too
   
      much white area around the image. Enter a
   
      Scale value of 120 percent, which will ex-
   
      pand the printed dimensions of the image
   
      to 6-by-9 inches. Note that Photoshop does
   
      not re sample the image; it merely lowers the
   
      resolution value so that the pixels print larger.
   
      In Figure 12-7, for example, Photoshop has
   
      automatically reduced the resolution to 250
   
      ppi. (You may need to close and reopen the
   
      Print dialog box to get an updated preview
   
      that reflects this resolution.

   
   

Paper orientation icons

Figure 12-7. Print resolution

10. Choose the Color Management option. The right side of the
    dialog box greets you with one of two groups of options: Out-
    put, which includes a bunch of PostScript printing functions
    applicable to commercial reproduction, or Color Management,
    which is what we want. (If you see buttons marked Background,
    Border, Bleed, and the like, you’re in the wrong area.) Make
    sure the top-right pop-up menu is set to Color Management.

PeaRl Of WISDOm

What you’ll see when you click the Printer
Settings box is one of those context-dependent
scenarios that depends on your particular printer
and operating system. You may find other settings
here that make sense, but I’m going to gloss over
(read: ignore) them intentionally to avoid leading
you astray unintentionally. I’d rather err on the
side of vague than outright misleading or plain
wrong.

426 Lesson 12: Print and Web Output