Comments on: Why PSDs are Better Than Layered TIFFs

By: 11 Habits New (and Seasoned) Print Designers Should Pick Up | Chrome47

11 Habits New (and Seasoned) Print Designers Should Pick Up | Chrome47 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:02:55 +0000

[...] are for PSDs, not TIFs. There’s some debate over this, but I stick with flat TIFs and layered PSDs for a number of reasons. Sure, TIF is a more open format than PSD, but not everything can read a [...]

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:22:33 +0000

PSD stands for Photoshop Document

By: jArthur Bogut`

jArthur Bogut` — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:16:01 +0000

What does PSD abbreviation stand for?

By: Donald

Donald — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:39:47 +0000

Thank you Claudia!

By: Claudia McCue

Claudia McCue — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:47:22 +0000

Donald,

Export to PDF/X-1a, then view in Acrobat. View Separations in Acrobat. If it looks okey-dokey, your content is healthy. If your printer is reasonably up to date, there should be no problem. Have a conversation with the printer if you’re concerned that they’ll munge your job, and insist on contract proofs.

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:20:51 +0000

Great conversation! I have a related question. I want part of an image that is cmyk to blend into a spot color version of the same image. The following looks like it works, but I want to make sure there won’t be production problems w/ the printer. My cmyk image has a layer mask applied and the image goes to transparent. I then bring it into InDesign and postition it on top of a grayscale version of the same image (the grayscale image has my spot color applied in InDesign). It appears to blend seamlessly.

By: Claudia McCue

Claudia McCue — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:34:41 +0000

Somazza,

Your printer shouldn’t object to duotone PSDs (should image fine), but clearly he’s superstitious

Primitive beliefs aside, check the options when you save an EPS: make sure that the preview is set to “TIFF 8 bits,” and I bet you’ll like what you see in InDesign, even without turning on High Resolution Preview.

By: somazza

somazza — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:11:54 +0000

This is related to a problem I am having. I am making dutone photos in Photoshop and then saving them, and then placing them in InDesign. But I am having problems. If I save as an EPS, then when it is placed in InDesign, it is spotty and doesn’t look like a photo. When I save it as a PSD then it looks fine when placed in InDesign.

So, thinking that the PSD was the way to go, I sent it to the printer to see if it was ok to use PSD in the InDesign file and if it would print ok. He told me to save it as an EPS in future. This makes no sense to me.

What am I missing?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:30:11 +0000

Brian – to answer your question, packaging design, for one, but there are several other applications where you’d use placed images in Illustrator. John, check your transparency settings when you save. You must be opting to flatten transparency.

By: Brian Cupp

Brian Cupp — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:06:04 +0000

I have always wanted to know. Besides jobs that are for billboards. Why do people place Photos into Illustrator? Illustrator is for Illustrations not Page Layout.

Brian Cupp