Editing Photographing Natural World Thumbnails (section)

== Photoshop ==

=== Adding panel borders and text ===

* It’s not necessary to erase pencil lines before photographing the thumbnails. The curves adjustments in Photoshop will remove them.
* No corrections in Lightroom.
* Create a Photoshop document with one layer containing the panel borders, and two additional blank layers for the text and shading. * Make a copy to create a file for the new page.
* Edit LR file (using Photoshop)
* Adjust LR prefs so it doesn’t append “-Edit” to the Photoshop filename.
** Adjust LR prefs to edit photo at 500 dpi. With the photos at 500 dpi, the thumbnails will come out  4.75″ wide in InDesign without any further adjustments.
** For files originating from the Nikon D7100, once the file is open in Photoshop, change the DPI to 684, without resampling so the actual raster data is unchanged.
*** With images captured with a Nikon D7100 resampling at 684 dpi yields an image that will be 4.75″ wide when imported into InDesign.
*** Lightroom preference for setting the dpi of an image in the image editor tops out at 600 for some stupid reason. This adjustment must be made in Photoshop.
** Artwork should have at least 3/8″ margins in InDesign, but the top and bottom margins are slightly larger.
* Apply threshold to line art with Threshold Level at ~210.
* Copy this layer into the thumbnail page document and set the new layer’s blend mode to “multiply”.
* Close the NEF file without saving.