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How to turn a PDF into a good quality photoshop web JPG

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November 3, 2017
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Hello everybody, i'm a new muse user and i have a little problem with the picture quality when i turn a PDF into a Photoshop JPG.

The original PDF is A4 Format, i open it with photoshop, RGB, 72 dpi, the quality is nice but after i downsize the picture it is blurred and frayed and i don't know what i'm doing wrong.

I also tryed it with a pdf converter into JPG it is the same. I loss the sharpness of my images.

Anybody an general idea for me how can i get nice, sharp images for my homepages?

Thank you very much for your help.

Maket

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pawan_1042

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26DAD524.pdf

Günter Heißenbüttel

Inspiring

… thats exactly, what I said …

gener7

Community Expert

For information purposes, this is the dialog Photoshop displays when a PDF if opened. Here I simply entered the dimensions in pixels.

Clicking OK rasterizes the image at that size and in crisp detail. So yes, Ps is a great tool for this job.

Gene

Muse_DummyAuthor

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Another question: When you open the PDF in photoshop you just set the height on the Px what you want and leave 300 dpi?

Muse_DummyAuthor

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Pretty cool, works Thank you

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Anonymous

Now you are talking about something that IS in my "wheel house" been doing this for many years (25 plus)...I do this all the time.

You make many assumptions!

No you don't need to buy software and there are many easy and FREE ways to get images from a PDF other that the one way you describe....It's not not just "your way or the highway" this time...now we are talking about something that I am very well versed in. But if they don't want help forget it. ###DELETED###

Günter Heißenbüttel

Inspiring

I really don’t know, why you say: „But if you don’t want to help forget it“ I have not the meanest idea, where you got this idea from. Additionally I don’t know, why you qualify my post as „miss-information“, „assumptions“ and so on. Don’t you think, you can do without this kind of wording? And please, don’t assume, these kind of tasks have been solely "your job". They were mine too!

But to continue answering the initial question: Is a big difference to resize a vektor PDF as a vector PDF (no losses), before converting it to a jpg or afterwards. If you open a PDF in Photoshop,, the recalculation is done on the vector data before the document is converted to an image. Most image enhancers can’t deal with PDFs. You have to convert your PDF to a jpg, before using these tool; some of these tools convert PDFs to images, before resizing them. In both cases, they necessarily cause more data losses as Photoshop does.

It is indispensable, to resize web images to the exact pixel values, which are needed in the web page layout. If you don’t do it, before placing the image, Muse has to do it during output. And as a web design tool Muse isn’t as good in performing such a job as, for example, Photoshop.

Muse_DummyAuthor

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Thank you very much for your help to you all. I will try out your recommended possibilities.

Günter Heißenbüttel

Inspiring

Don’t thinks so. There are many apps out there, which create excellent quality in resizing images. But that is not the question at all. Here the question is to render an image out of a PDF, what is something completely different.

And you really suggest someone, who is obviously not really experienced in converting/resizing assets, to buy additional software? Hmm …

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Anonymous

More miss-information Muse Dummy. There are many ways to get very good or even better results. Fractal Technology lets us do miracle things these days.

Muse_DummyAuthor

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Hello, thank you very much for the hint. I believe therefore i have do to something with the images in photoshop instead muse, some advice what shell i do to get some good quality images?

The PDF is a High Res. X-3 PDF

Here is the link with the PDF Images.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Thx so much for your help

fotoroeder

Inspiring

Of course you have to convert your HigRes pdf to a jpg in PS. Best way, if you convert it to jpg with "save for web and devices" after you have set your image size as you want it to be on the website later. Then the quality of your website shows exactly what you create in PS and you´ll have the best control over the whole process.

Muse tries and mostly does a good job but in your case the intermediate step with PS is recommended.

Best Regards,

Uwe

Mylenium

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Well, there is no such thing as infinitely sharp pixel images. If you go from a few thousand pixels width/ height on a 300 DPI or something A4 page to a few hundred pixels on a web page, you're inevitably throwing away information and stuff will get interpolated. That's a reality you have to come to grips with. That said, seeing the image would help as already suggested. It may be possible to achieve better results, though the answer very likely is in Photoshop, not Muse.

Mylenium

fotoroeder

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I don`t know the quality of the pdf of course, but why don`t you open it with 240 dpi or higher, before you convert it into a jpg?

Show us a pdf, if you need further assistance. Share it via CC library or via dropbox.

Best Regards,

Uwe

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