Open Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4. Then open the JPG created from the SketchUp model from within Photoshop. File menu > Open

Open Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4. Then open the JPG created from the SketchUp model from within Photoshop. File menu > Open

Go to View>Rulers to turn them on they should appear on the sides of each open image.

Use Ctrl + and Ctrl - to zoom in and out on your image. Ctrl 0 will zoom out to view the entire canvas.

Zoom in (Ctrl +) and select the Arrow tool. Hover the arrow over a ruler, hold down the left mouse button and drag a blue guide onto your image.

Select the Rectangular Marquee tool. Any tool with a small triangle in the lower right corner has additional tool options: hold the left mouse button down to access these. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, Draw a box around the area of your drawing you wish to keep, then Crop the image: Image menu>crop.

1. EXPAND 1. Expand the tool palettes. 2. Click the History button to review recent steps. 2. HISTORY 2. HISTORY 3. To undo any previous actions, select the action from the History tab and select the garbage can icon in the lower right corner. 3. DELETE ACTION

Select the Magic Wand tool. Then click on the background gray color of the image.

For images with fuzzy borders, adjust the wand tolerance to be more or less selective. This is especially useful on scanned sketches, hand drawings and photographs where boundary lines aren t always crisp.

Hold down the shift key to add to the selection set.

After making a selection with the magic wand tool, fill the background with a new color: Edit menu>fill SWITCH BACKGROUND & FOREGROUND COLORS FOREGROUND COLOR BACKGROUND COLOR

Change foreground and background colors: click the Color menu, your cursor will turn to an eyedropper, and you can sample from the chart or from within the image itself. Note that this will appear in the swatches.

Or click the foreground color button to open the Color Picker window. Slide the circle or use the arrow sliders to adjust the color selection.

Adjust the image size to ensure the proper printing resolution (minimum of 300dpi for photo-quality prints). 1 Image menu>image Size 3 Change the resolution to 300 pixels/inch. Notice that these values are interdependent 2 Select Resample Image from the Image Size menu.

The maximum size this image can be for printed use is 9.297in x 4.277in. To create a larger image, export a 2D image with more pixels from SketchUp. To reduce the dimensions of the image after setting it to 300px/in, recheck Resample Image box. This will keep the resolution at 300px/in, ensuring a high-quality printed image.

Keeping in mind that many printers will not do full edge bleed create a canvas that will fit on a sheet without any info getting cut off. Set up a sheet for printing out a sun study: Image menu>canvas Size will allow you to change the size of the work area.

Switch to the arrow tool, and drag the image to one side of the page. Using the rectangular fence tool, draw a boundary around the first image of the sun study.

Open up the other images of your sun study exported from the model. Copy the info from these images to paste into the original image: Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C

Switch to the main sun study file by clicking the tab. Then, paste the new info in: Ctrl+V Note that this info is pasted onto a new layer. You may only move this info when the layer is selected.

Using the arrow tool, drag guide lines down from the toolbars use these to aid in lining up individual images. Note: Guides are not layer-dependent.

Use the rectangular marquee tool plus the delete button to clear areas of each layer away switch between layers to activate them on the Layers Tab.

After creating an organized presentation, use the text tool to add a title, your name and the date to the page.

Make adjustments to the text characteristics using the menus at the top of the screen.

Create additional text boxes to add the date and time to the sun study images. Note that you may arrange the order of Layers by dragging them within the menu. Turn them on an off by selecting the eye.

The background cannot be adjusted: the lock indicates this. However, by double-clicking the Layer Name you may rename it and it may then be adjusted.

Save this document as a Photoshop or.psd file to preserve the layers. This will allow you to make edits later on.

Do not print.psd files. Instead, flatten them: Layer menu>flatten Image. **Be sure to go to File>Save As or this will replace your.psd file.

Only print and plot from.jpg or.pdf files, never from a.psd file

Note that.pdf files can be created directly from Photoshop