Making a PDF Presentation and a Web Photo Gallery in CS3

If you need to send a slick looking slideshow of your work to someone and don't just want to attach jpgs to an email, consider making one of these:

PDF Presentation:

Make a folder of hi-res images that you'd like to be in your slideshow presentation.

Go to FILE>AUTOMATE>PDF Presentation. Browse and add all the photos from the folder you just created. Output Options: Save as presentation. You can include title etc, but you have to have embedded it in the file first by going to File> File Info and typing into the title and author fields. Choose the appropriate font size (10 seems good). Then choose whatever presentation options you prefer at the bottom.


When the "Save Adobe PDF" window comes up, look at the top, and if you want to email this to someone, choose "smallest file size". To print, obviously choose the high quality print option. You can now attach this to an email and show a selection of your work to someone in a clean and finished way.

Web Photo Gallery:

Make a folder of hi-res images that you'd like to be in your photo gallery. Then save them for web. This function under "File">"Save for Web and Devices" automatically saves your images to the right size (about 500x500) and color space (sRGB) to be able to go online.

The images you start with should be anything larger than a JPEG before you save for web, the highest-res version you have of that photo. Go to "File">"Save for Web and Devices" and in the dialogue box choose JPEG, High, Quality 60, Blur 0, and check the Progressive box, but DON'T check the ICC profile.
Then click in Device Central at the bottom of the page. In Scaling just click on "Fit Proportionally"

Then go to File>Automate>Web Photo Gallery. there are several styles to choose from, I like Flash Gallery 1. enter your email address. Choose a source folder (the group of images you've saved for web). Make a new folder for the web gallery to be saved to and make that the "destination". Under Options, choose whatever you like.

When you hit OK, you will have a folder full of dreamweaver/html files that can be zipped and attached to an email. To view in Safari, just double click the "index.htm" file. These files can also essentially be put together in Dreamweaver to create a website.