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[♪ Music ♪] [Adobe TV Presents] [The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost] Hi, and welcome to the Complete Picture. My name is Julieanne Kost, and today we're going to try something a little different. We're actually going to create this little folded book, and the way we're going to do it is we're actually going to print eight images on a single sheet of paper, and then simply fold that paper, slice it in the middle and then you'll see that we can go ahead and turn through it like a book. So, the reason that I wanted to do this project was because I found that I'm actually in the middle of a larger project right now, but I was getting a little bit--it's not that I was losing interest, but I really wanted to see my images. It's a long time to put a book together, to put an exhibition together, and I actually wanted to see some of these images in print. So, I thought "You know, I'm just going to go ahead and make one of these little folding books." So, we're going to learn how we can create a template in Lightroom and make sure that we place all of our images in the correct position and save that template, create what's called a print collection, which I'm not sure has been talked very much about, and then we'll actually go ahead and print it, and I'll just show you quickly how to go ahead and fold that. So, let's get started. Obviously, if there's eight images we want to pick eight of our images, but I will say because this book doesn't necessarily close all the way, it will, but I used really thick paper to print this book. And so, this book actually kind of lays open a little bit better than it does closed all the way, so you may or may not want to print actual images on this back side of this, in which case I'll show you, this would be number one, this would be image number one, and this would be image number eight, and you could just put a placeholder in there, or you can make an image. So, for example, I've made just a little image here that kind of has a screened back photograph, so I opened a finished photograph into Photoshop. I actually inverted it, and then I just decreased the opacity to like 10% and put my name on top of it in some type. So, this is a Photoshop file. So, you could use that for the first page or the last page if you weren't planning to make this a book that maybe sat upright, and you didn't want to put images on those back two pages. Okay, so, go back to grid. Now, what I've got here is I've got a bunch of numbers and a bunch of images, and I want to show you why I made the numbers. So, let's scoot over to the print module. You know, you can click the print option up here or you could do command, P. That also takes you to the print module, and let's just select this range of images so we can see how it's laying out. This is not actually how it's finally going to lay out in the end. What we're going to need to do, you can see when I unfold this, is we're going to actually have to put them in a different order, and we're going to have to turn some of them 180 degrees so that they're upside down. But the other thing we need to do is actually create the template, and so I want to start kind of from scratch and go through exactly what it is that I did. So, the first thing you want to do is click on "page setup" because that's going to allow you to pick your printer, to choose the printer that you're going to print to. In this case, I actually want the Epson Stylus Pro, the 4800. That's what I was printing to. It's a large printer, and so I can print the largest book that I could. I did print on a heavy paper though, made it a little bit harder to fold. You might want to think of a lighter weight paper. I used the velvet fine art. Maybe just the enhanced matte would have been a better idea. And then I selected my size here. In this case, let's choose the 17 x 22 inch, and we could try doing the maximum, but I actually am just going to do 17 x 22 and then I'm going to put some borders on either side of that. All right, so once we've got our page set up, I also changed the orientation here so that it would be horizontal. Click "okay," and then we're going to go to our print settings because you want to set this up so that you can save all of these settings as part of your template, because otherwise you're going to have to keep coming back to these dialog boxes, and that's just a waste of time. So, I'll click "print settings." Sorry, one thing. If you are on Windows, there's only one button down there. So, all of the features that I'm going through are going to be accessible through one button instead of two, and of course, depending on your printer and the printer driver, these might appear differently. So, you're going to have to kind of familiarize yourself with your own printer to figure out exactly what you need to set up. For example, when I pick the 4800, right down here under printer settings. Yours might look different, but in this case, I'm going to make sure that I do a manual feed, and I want to pick a fine art paper. I was using that velvet fine art paper, the thick one. The print mode is color, but I'm going to go ahead and turn color management off in the printer driver, and I'm going to use the color management from Lightroom. All right, and super photo, and it's up to you whether high speed or not. I usually turn that off, and then click "save." So now, my page setup and my print settings are all good to go. Let's take a look at our options on the right hand side. So, for image settings, it's up to you whether or not you want to zoom to fill, rotate to fit, or stroke the border of your images. I'm going to go ahead and turn off rotate to fit, although honestly, in this case it doesn't matter because all of my images are square, so they're not going to rotate. And then, let's go down to layout because this is really the important area. Obviously, you want two rows and four columns, so that's easy. But the margins get a little bit tricky because a lot of printers, when you're putting paper through, they have different margins on the left and right side or if you're printing the other way, the top and bottom. So, we can see what those margins are over here, left, right, top and bottom, and we can see what the defaults are, so I can't really take my right margin lower than .56, so what I'm going to do is instead of fighting it, I'm just going to match that and say "Fine, I want my left margin to also be .56." So, if my left margin and my right margin are .56, we're talking right here, these margins right here at the top and the bottom or the left and the right if I hold it this way, if those are .56, what I need is I need double that amount in between each one of the photos, right? So, I'm going to go ahead and double that, or at least come close to that when I come down to my cell spacing, but first, let's go ahead and change the top and bottom, and I'm going to guess here right now. Let's say probably it's going to be more than one inch. I'm going to say 2 inches by 2 inches because remember, if my images are square, which I can click on this little option to keep square, what I've set is the 2 inches here and the 2 inches here. I can always go in and raise this a little bit more, but what I want to look at is the distance here. Basically, now I have the distance between 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. So, I have 4 inches right here, a little less than 4 inches, because remember, we're talking .56 here. But if I wanted to make them up a little bit, like I didn't want the same spacing here and here, then I could go ahead and change my margins at the bottom and the top, so I could go ahead and say "You know what, let's put the top to maybe 2.39, 2.394 each." So, what that does is it just gives me a little bit more area at the bottom of the image than it would at the top, because remember, this is folded in half here, right? Okay, so that's all looking good. What else do I need to do here? Well, we mentioned that the left and right margins were .56, so I need a little bit more space here between them, otherwise I'm never going to get this to fold. This margin will be small, and this margin will be bigger, and it will just look really, really silly. So, for my horizontal here, watch what happens as I start moving this over to the right. You can see that I'm getting a bigger space right here, and I need that space to be twice this size, right? So, what is that going to be? That's going to be 1, 1, 2, so 1.12 is what I need that to be. Right, I hope that makes sense. This margin right here, there's no fold here. So, this margin between these two images needs to be twice as big as this because there's going to be a fold right down here. All right, that looks good. We still have the bottom offset a little bit more. That look about right? Okay. Again, this is just the starting place. You can always change these to adapt to your printer, and in fact, you'll need to because you might not be printing on the same paper size. Okay, so we've got out layout down. The other thing that's super important, of course, would be the print job. I'm going to print to my printer. I'm going to make sure that draft mode printing is off. I want a high quality print here. The resolution, I'm going to leave that off. I want Lightroom to calculate that for me. My print sharpening I'm going to go ahead and kick up to standard and put in my media type, which is matte paper, and I need to select my profile. So, here's my 4800 velvet fine art matte paper. Excellent, now, there's still something wrong, and that is number 1, 2, 3, and 4. These images I actually want to print down here, and then 5, 6, 7, 8 are going to go along the top, and they actually need to be rotated. So, let's go take a look at what that might look like. I think it's easier if we go to the library module, although you don't have to, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to select right here 5 through 8, and I'm going to rotate them using command, left bracket. Rotate them once and then again. Rotate them twice, so they'll be upside down. And now, I need to move them to the beginning, but that's not all I need to do. I also need to reverse the order of just these four. So, let's grab 8, it's going to come first, and then 7, 6, 5, and then 1, 2, 3, 4. And I know it sounds crazy, but let's go over to the print module and see what we've done. We'll select this range of images, and here we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, right? So, if we open up our book for a minute, right here, we would have 1, 2, 3, 4, and on the other side, which are going to print upside down, 5, 6, 7, 8, and they're printing upside down because it's all on one sheet of paper. Okay, with that in mind, let's go back to the grid mode for a moment. I just find it easier to lay out things in the grid. Here are the images that I want, and I just need to put them in this sequence. So, my first and second image I'm going to wait to do those. I'm going to do my seventh and eighth first, right? So, these are going to be my last two images, but they need to be rotated. So, we'll rotate them. These two images are going to be 5 and 6. So, I'll scoot them over, and then I'll rotate them. And then, I want these two images to be 1, 2, and then 3 and 4. Okay, one other thing I'll just point out. The reason that these are all virtual copies is because I wasn't really sure which ones I was going to rotate at first, so I wanted to make sure that-- remember, if you rotate an image and it's in like three collections, it's going to rotate in all the collections, and I didn't want that. So, before I made this collection to do this demo, I made sure that the images that I was working on were virtual copies. That way they didn't get rotated in any other collections that I have them in, like I have a bunch of slideshows that I go to often and play. Well, wouldn't that be embarrassing if it's playing through my slideshow and one of them is upside down. Okay, going back to print. Let's select this range of images now. There it is, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Fantastic, before I actually hit print, it'd probably be a smart time to come up here to my template browser. Go ahead and click on the plus icon, and this would be my 8, up, and I tend to get very specific, like I would put the printer that I'm going to and that it's velvet fine art and all those things, but for this, I'm just going to do demo, but try to be descriptive, all right? And I'm going to put it in my small books folder, so we'll hit "create" there, come down. There's my small books, and you can see here on these other ones I was being much more descriptive, but here's my 8, up demo. And then, all I need to do at this point is hit "print one." Why print one? Print one sounds funny because it's like print one what? One of each, one of what? Print one just means it's going to print this one, or if I had 16 images, it would print both sheets of paper. But it's better than going to print, because when you go to print, it brings up the printer driver again, and then you have to go through all those options, and we don't want to do that, so you would just hit "print one." And luckily, it just so happens that I already printed these last night. So, let's go ahead and grab them. I'm going to take these two away and show you very quickly what it is that I did. So, what you want to do, and probably you want to make sure that you have white gloves on because you really don't want to smudge any of the ink, and I would wait until the next day to fold this. I wouldn't fold it right after it's printed because the ink might be wet. Let me just move this out of the way here, and you do want to be careful when you're folding this. So, luckily, my mom, well, she was a silk screener, so I've been folding cards ever since I was very small, but nothing really this heavy set as far as stock goes, but you need to make sure that you've got those edges lined up, and then the important thing is to keep weight on this so that they don't split. And it's going to be a little bit tough to do because you've got to keep the weight pressed down so that the edges don't slip, and they're going to want to slip. In fact, I can feel this one slipping over here. It's going to want to slip, so you want to be as careful as you can, and you can see I'm actually pushing down with the palm of my hands here, and then if you have any paper making tools, like one of those-- I forget what they're called, but they're made of bone, and you can just use it to crease those seams. You definitely want to do that. So, you'll fold it one way, and then I think it makes it much easier if you just turn it around, and we're going to fold it the other way as well. So again, this would be a good time to have those gloves. You're going to want to be pretty careful here. This is super stiff paper. So, let's see if we can't just get that to fold. Again, I want my gloves. I know I'm just getting palm prints on my image, especially if you had glossy paper. I can imagine this would be terrible. All right, so you do that, so that's folded both ways and then you're going to need to fold it the opposite direction. So, just fold this over. I'm sure most of you probably already know how to do this because this is one of the most basic templates for creating hand made books. So, we'll just make sure we keep that pressure on there while we're folding. I'm going to go kind of quickly now because otherwise it's going to get boring, and I might have my hands all over the print, but you guys wouldn't want to do that. All right, again, putting pressure down on there. And then, of course, we also need to fold these and crease them as well. All right, and we can do these both at once. Again, take your time when you're doing this because the more accurate you are right now, obviously the better the book is going to fold, and the less accurate you are, the more awkward it's going to be when you try to stand it up and none of the corners match. All right, and one more. I think I just put a dimple in it. I'm just trying to go too fast. All right, there we go, and there we go. Now, the last step that we're going to have to do involves a sharp utensil, a little knife. So, we've got an X-Acto knife here, and we definitely need a straight edge. I'm not sure how sharp this knife is. I'm not sure if I should actually cut on this table either. Wait, I know I have something I can cut on right in here. So, we want to make sure that we don't ruin the table underneath. So, let's just put a little bit of safety there. Please be careful when you're cutting. I'm not using this to measure at all. I just know I need to cut between this and this, right? That's the area that I need to cut, but I need to cut along the center so that those panels will go ahead and open. So, let's see how I did there. And now, just see how I sliced right down there? What that will enable this to do is kind of come open. It's a little tough the first time you try to do it because you've got to get these guys to fold in the right direction, but there you have it. And then once you've got it folded like that, come on in and just kind of reinforce those. We don't need that anymore, but we can see here's our book. And so, I just think this is a great little way to print your images and take a look at them and show them to other people and see them in the printed form and share them, especially when you're in the middle of a big book project and you really don't want to wait until the end to share your images. And a little bit of double-sided tape would also help these just kind of stay together there. Now, there is one thing that I do want to show you on the computer, and that is the ability to save a print collection. Now, what we saved was a template, so I can use this template with different images, which you can obviously tell I did because when I just folded this bunch of images, there are images of China and not the images that we were working with. But regardless, a print collection is a little bit different. If you spent a lot of time laying out specific images in a specific template, then I would come down here to your collections and look, when you click on the plus icon, it says "create print." You can actually create a print collection. So, this would be my 8, up and these would be my digital illustrations. And I'm going to put demo after that just so that I remember, and I'll save it here in this set and click "create." So, the great thing about this is that I can go to any other collection anywhere, and I can come up here and pick any other template and then lay out any of these images, but watch what happens when I come back to collections. If I click on this 8, up digital illustrations, it returns to that template and it swapped out the images, so I'm working with the right images in the right template. So, that's the difference between a print collection versus just saving your template. Excellent, thank you so much for joining me. I hope that you will get started printing out some books. My name's Julieanne Kost. Please join me next time on the Complete Picture. [♪ Music ♪] [Adobe TV Productions]
