Preparing your files for a Viovio Book.

Once I had all my working files (apd, psd, pspimages) ready to go and PROOFED, I need to create JPG’s. I never make JPG’s until I am ready to print or share on the web.

How to Convert all your files to JPGs in one step:

1. I open up ACDSee Photo Manager and select all my working files. (I selected all my apds but if you use Adobe products (psds) or Corel products (pspimages).)
2. I choose File | Batch Convert
   1. Choose JPG
   2. Select Format Settings and make sure it is setting to Best Quality
   3. Choose Next
   4. Usually I choose to place files in the same folder, but when I am getting ready to print a book, I place them in new folder for easier ordering of pages and uploading. So choose Place modified images in the following folder and select a folder below that option.
   5. Choose Next
   6. I leave the defaults which is Input: All Images (this doesn’t apply since I only have one file per image) & Output: Split (I want to create separate jpgs of all the files I chose.)
   7. Choose Start Convert
   8. When it finishes, choose Finish

Batch Resize

Next step, is resize them for you book size. I am printing a 10 x 10 inch book. The official specifications say they want a 10.25 x 10.25 image. So I am going to use ACDSee Photo Manager to resize all of them.

1. in ACDSee Photo Manager, I select all the jpg’s of pages. (Mine are convenient because I placed them in a separate folder.)
2. Go to Tools | Batch Resize
3. Check Actual Print Size
4. In the boxes, set the following: Units: inches, Width & Height: 10.25, Resolution: 300 in. check Preserve original aspect ratio
5. 
6. Click Options
7. Choose Rename modified images & place in source folders
8. Click on JPEG compress options,
   1. Choose 90% Image quality to reduce the size slightly.
9. Click OK, OK, and Start Resize

You should now have all your images in jpg format and resize to the expected size. I would just like to comment that the Viovio software would resize the images themselves. But since resizing the images is easy and then it takes less time to upload the images to Viovio, you might as well do it yourself.

In the next blog entry, we will talk about ordering your pages and making a cover. Unless that is too much.. We’ll see.

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