Photoshop tutorial | The Employee by Joshua Schwebel

Justin K <██████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 2:05 PM

Hi Josh,

Farah let me know that you're looking to do a photoshop tutorial. I'm happy to meet

with you and go over photoshop as a whole, or if you'd want to hone in on some specific things

you're looking to do within the program we can get a bit more precise. If the latter is more what

you're looking for, let me know what you'd like to focus on.

My schedule is flexible, so let me know what works for you. That said, Thursday around 1:30

is perfect for me if you'd rather I pick the time.

Hope you're well,

Justin Karas

Illustrator

// house9 design

Montreal, Quebec

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Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Justin K <██████████████████████ > Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 6:40 AM

hi Justin,

thanks for reaching out. I am just trying to edit some email pdfs that have been incorrectly resized during exporting.

The problem is that when I work on them in photoshop, their quality becomes ever so slightly different. I am sure there is a simple solution, but I don't know what that is.

I am attaching some examples below. The first email is directly exported from gmail but incorrectly formatted. The second and third email I have reformatted and you might notice the change in appearance. Even though it is subtle it is still noticeable.

Any tips for how to edit these documents so that there is a seamless continuity between the exported files and the edited files would be greatly appreciated.

thanks so much!

best,

Josh

Justin K <██████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 4:26 PM

Hi Josh,

There are a few possibilities for why you're seeing a decreased quality in your edited images.

Did you enlarge any of the elements while you edited them? That could explain the slight pixelation.

The other possibility is that your photoshop file doesn't match the resolution of your original image.

You might already know this, but if you increase the resolution of an image it will end up looking blurry.

If you're planning on printing this you'll want to have the resolution set at 300 ppi (pixels per inch), if it's only going to appear on a screen 72 or 150 ppi are both ok.

To check your image's resolution, go to Image>image size from the top menu, and you'll find the resolution in the dialogue box that opens.

Either way, I would see if there's a way to export those original emails at 300 dpi.

I'm curious, are you looking to recreate the layout as you see it in your browser, or just generally looking to increase the size of all the elements within the layout?

Justin Karas

Illustrator

// house9 design

Montreal, Quebec

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Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Justin K <██████████████████████ > Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 3:45 AM

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the suggestions, but I did not resize anything. The documents have been printed as pdfs from gmail and I opened these directly into Photoshop. I need to modify these emails because the sizing of the content is disproportionate. What I am doing is copying properly-sized headers from other similar emails and then retyping the content that is not correctly sized.

My sense of what is happening has something to do with the way photoshop works with text (rasterized / unrasterized). When I change the text settings (smooth, bold, etc.) it still doesn’t help. When I flatten all layers before I export then it is a bit better, but still not identical to the files that I didn’t work with in Photoshop.

What can I do to keep the image quality consistent?

Thanks again for your help.

Josh

Justin K <██████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Farah Khan <█████████████████████ >, Mark Ambrose Harris <████████████████████ >

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 10:57 AM

Hey Josh,

I think the most efficient thing to do would be for us to hop on a zoom call, and we can look at your photoshop settings

and the process you're using and we can find a solution - I know you're in Berlin, so I could meet you in the morning for me,

say 10am my time, 4pm your time? I could meet tomorrow or any day next week.

That said, if you're typing new content into a photoshop file, you're right: text that hasn't been flattened isn't yet
rasterized (turned into set pixels), which explains the discrepancy you're seeing until you do flatten your layers.
If you're importing images from elsewhere as you are with your header, then there's a risk the

resolution won't match, this might be what's happening - if you use a higher resolution (300 dpi) image

for your header, and rasterize your text layers, you probably will get it to look more consistent.

I found a PNG online for the logo that looks fairly large (attaching it here), try placing this and scaling it down maybe this will work.

I noticed the word "gmail" is a bit closer to the icon in this PNG so you might have to rework it a bit to get it to match

your layout perfectly.

If this doesn't solve your issue let me know when you'd like to meet and we can investigate it together, and build a template

within photoshop.

Talk soon,

Justin Karas

Illustrator

// house9 design

Montreal, Quebec

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Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 5:40 PM

Hi Justin,

Thanks so much once again.

I would be happy to meet on zoom at some point next week. Tomorrow I am already booked up in the afternoon / morning.

Would wednesday work for you?

I think if we trial and error together we can figure it out. I know it shouldn’t be difficult! I just think that there is a small detail I am missing.

Talk next week?

Best,

Josh

Justin K <██████████████████████ >

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 9:27 AM

sounds good!

I'll send a little invite to meet next Wednesday, 10am EST

Justin Karas

Illustrator

// house9 design

Montreal, Quebec

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Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:37 AM

Great, thanks!