Making a Brochure Using Photoshop? - Simple method

Brochures are a great marketing tool. They help promote your business, pack a lot of information into a relatively small space, and can be mailed, placed in brochure racks or left on storefront counter tops. These versatile marketing pieces can be do-it-yourself projects, too, provided you have the right tools and a little bit of patience. Adobe Photoshop, while not necessarily desktop publishing software, can certainly be one of the tools used to create professional-looking brochures.

1. Fold a letter-size (8 1/2-by-11-inch) piece of paper into thirds. This will give you an idea of where each panel will be on your finished document. You'll need to create two Photoshop documents, one for the outside panel and one for the inside. You'll focus on the outer panel first.
2. Mark the panels on the folded paper, so you can unfold it and see how it will be laid out. Write "cover" on the front panel, "back" on the back and "inside front" on the inside-front panel. Do the same on the inside pages, although this is a bit easier: "Inside 1," "Inside 2" and "Inside 3."
3. Open a new document in Photoshop. Make it 11 inches wide and 8.5 inches tall, 300 dpi and CMYK color (ideal for printing).
4. Place guides at 3.6 inches, 3.85 inches, 7.15 inches and 7.4 inches. This will give you the template for a tri-fold brochure with 1/4-inch gutters.
5. Place your images and text on the brochure's panels, using the paper you folded and labeled as a template for where to put the cover, back and inside-front information.
6. Create another document with the same settings as the first. This will be the inside of the brochure. You can create a tri-panel layout for the inside, or you can simply stretch your information across the entire document/
7. Print out the first page of the brochure. Place it back into your printer so the back side is aligned correctly to print on the back of the page. Print the second page.

Concentrate on:

• It may take a little bit of tweaking to align the front and back correctly.
• Some sites offer downloadable templates for brochures.

Changing a Picture Into Gray Scale?

It is easy to convert a color image into gray scale using standard photo editing applications that come pre-installed on both Windows and Mac computers. Windows users can use the Microsoft Office Picture Manager software to perform the color to gray scale conversion. Mac users can use the iPhoto application to complete the same task. Both applications, Picture Manager and iPhoto, are equipped with a color “saturation” adjustment tool that you can use to remove all of the color saturation from a photo. The result is a black and white -- or gray scale -- image.

Using Microsoft Office Picture Manager (For Windows Computers)

1. Import or scan the picture you want to change to gray scale into your computer. Refer to applicable user guides for instructions on how to import or scan.
2. Navigate to the directory on your computer where the image you want to modify is stored. Right click on the image file. Point to “Open With” in the shortcut menu. Select “Microsoft Office Picture Manager.”
3. Go to the “Picture” menu. Select “Color.”
4. Slide the “Saturation” slider all the way to the left. Or type “-100” in the saturation box. Your image now appears in gray scale.

Using iPhoto (For Mac Computers)

1. Import or scan the picture you want to change to gray scale into your computer. Refer to applicable user guides for instructions on how to import or scan.
2. Launch the iPhoto application. Go to the “File” menu. Select “Import from Library.” Navigate to the directory on your computer where the image you want to modify is stored. Click on the image file. Click “Import” to import the image into your iPhoto album.
3. Browse through your iPhoto album to locate the photo you want to modify. Click on the photo to select it. Click the “Edit” button in the toolbar to view the photo in edit view.
4. Go to the “Adjust” tab at the top of the edit pane. Slide the “Saturation” slider all the way to the left. Your image now appears in gray scale.

Image Processing

In electrical engineering and computer science, image processing is any form of signal processing for which the input is an image, such as a photograph or video frame; the output of image processing may be either an image or, a set of characteristics or parameters related to the image. Most image-processing techniques involve treating the image as a two-dimensional signal and applying standard signal-processing techniques to it.

Image processing usually refers to digital image processing, but optical and analog image processing also are possible. This article is about general techniques that apply to all of them. The acquisition of images (producing the input image in the first place) is referred to as imaging.