How can I make one high-resolution PDF from multiple photos and a text page on a Mac using Lightroom or Photoshop?
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I need to submit 10 photos for a magazine as a single high-resolution PDF, plus one page with wardrobe and team credits. I use a Mac and have Lightroom and Photoshop, but I’m not very familiar with Photoshop. What’s a simple way to combine multiple images and a text page into one PDF? Also, is Lightroom/Preview good enough, or should I use Photoshop for better PDF export quality?
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You can use Mac OS X's built-in Preview application to combine PDFs into a single PDF file. Also built-in to Mac OS X is the ability to export any file as PDF (either in the File > Export As... menu if available, or in the Print to PDF exporter in the Print dialog).
For each of the 10 photos that you want to submit, in Lightroom, Print them. The system's Print dialog will open. In the bottom left of the Print dialog, select Save as PDF... in the drop-down. Select the folder to save the images as PDFs.
Open the Finder in the folder where the exported PDFs are located, and select the 10 PDF files, then in the menu bar select File > Open With > Preview.
In Preview, in the upper left of the toolbar, click the View Menu button, > Thumbnails. You can drag the thumbnails of each of the PDFs into one of the PDFs to create a combined PDF file containing all of your images.
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On a Mac, the simplest workflow is to first make each page a PDF, then combine them.
A straightforward method is:
- In Lightroom, print/export each photo page and use the Mac print dialog’s Save as PDF option.
- Create your credits page as a document you can also export to PDF.
- Open all the PDFs in Preview, show Thumbnails, and drag pages into the order you want.
- Save the combined file as one PDF.
That said, if the magazine cares about quality and production standards, Photoshop is the safer choice for final PDF export, since its PDF creation is generally better than Preview’s.
Also, the submission instructions sound incomplete. Before sending, confirm whether they want:
- just a simple multipage PDF, or a designed layout
- RGB or CMYK images
- any required color profile or template
If they need a specific layout, they should ideally provide guidelines or a template. If not, a clean multipage PDF with one image per page plus a final credits page should usually satisfy the request.
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