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How to manage a multipage file?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 19, 2017
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Hi guys,

I'm working on a comic with many pages. I have to switching from one page to the other because I don't start with a script but I draw directly.

In my previous project I worked with an animation software where each frame was a page, and I was able to switch from one page to the other by using the timeline.

Now I'm using Photoshop. What is the best way to manage a multipage file? There are artboards, but I don't know if I can handle a 200 pages (600dpi) comic with them.

Maybe I can work with pages as single files but I need a quick way do switch from one page to the other. Shall I use Lightroom? If so, how?

I'm a Photoshop beginner so any help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance .

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Trevor.Dennis

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If you don't have InDesign, maybe Bridge would be the way to go.

You wouldn't necessarily need InDesign CC. I'm not entirely sure what the procedure is for transferring a license to a new owner, but there must be thousands of people who have pre CC licenses sitting unused.

Trevor.Dennis

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CP beat me to it there, but a couple more points come to mind. Bridge lets you sort documents by dragging, as well as the usual name, date parameters. If you were to collapse each page's layers into a Smart Object, you could use this Bridge script to load those pages into a single Photoshop document as layers.

You could even turn those SO layers into a Frame Animation, and browse them page by page. This is all very rough and ready, and not a method to compile a finished product of course.

Speaking of which, what is the final product? Your mention of 600DPI suggests print, and 200 pages would be a huge PITA working from Photoshop. I'd even prefer to use MS Publisher (spit) which you might already have as part of Office. Blimey!!! I've just checked and _I_ have Publisher installed on this system, and I didn't even know it. That is as part of Office 365

InDesign is obviously streets ahead though, and would add the option to produce cool online versions of the comics, but you would probably need InDesign CC to fully up to speed with HTML5 etc. You should go ask them on the InDesign forum to see what the possibilities are.

Daniele87Author

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Thanks Dennis,

I didn't know about Bridge.

I'll think about InDesign once it's time to print the comic. Now I'm only looking for a method for creating the story and the drawings.

Thanks anyway .

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

First of all: Photoshop is not originally oriented toward multi-page layouts.

Artboards might be useful to you but I would rather simply use Layer Groups with each Group representing one page.

alt-clicking on a Group’s or Layer’s visibility icon in the Layers Panel hides the others.

If you create one file per page you can use Adobe Bridge to organise, view and open them.

Lightroom does not seem remotely useful to you as it is no painting tool.

Daniele87Author

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Thanks cp,

so I can create a Group per page. But once I'm done with the drawings, how can I tell Photoshop to export each Group as a single file?

I mentioned Lightroom as a file manager, not as a painting tool...

cinziamarotta

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Select the artboards (or the layers) you want to save and choose: FILE > EXPORT > ARTBOARDS TO FILES (or LAYERS TO FILES)

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