I just started working for a contracting company, and one of the things I've been tasked with doing is color coding some of the layout plan's symbols. Here is a small cutout of what I'm dealing with to give you an idea.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/Adobe.png
I tried the highlighting tool Acrobat 9 has, but it's not doing anything. I can't seem to get that tool to work at all actually, even with just text. I guess this is because it's just an image and not actual text. One of my bosses suggested a PDF program called BlueBeam, and said it was more layout friendly, but I do not have a copy of that. I'd expect Adobe to be able to do everything I need, I just don't know how at the moment =p
So what's the best way to do this? If you look at the picture I included, it's just those symbols there that I need to be a certain color, like red for fire alarm pull stations and such, etc. Any thoughts on how I can best accomplish this? Thank you ahead of time!
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Extract the image for that page into a graphics program, recolor it there as appropriate, re-insert the image into that page.
Seems easy enough.
Seems easy enough.
I suppose Photoshop could do the job then? I'm clearly a novice with what I'm doing here, I basically got handed this job by a family friend and trying to learn quickly and not disappoint.
Jeraziah wrote:
I suppose Photoshop could do the job then? I'm clearly a novice with what I'm doing here, I basically got handed this job by a family friend and trying to learn quickly and not disappoint.
What tools in Photoshop would make this look most professional and high quality? Thank you for your help so far by the way, I really appreciate it. I'm installing Photoshop at the moment to play around with so when I go into work tomorrow I'm a little more comfortable with what I'm doing.
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 3:36pm by Jeraziah
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 3:36pm by Jeraziah
Jeraziah wrote:
What tools in Photoshop would make this look most professional and high quality?
I can't seem to get the color replacement tool to work. I am an extreme Photoshop novice, but I suspect it has something to do with this only being a single layer? This is what it looks like...
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS.png
The red colored in square was used with the simple 'Paint Bucket Tool'. I suppose the bucket tool is all I need, but I do have one other little issue and I wonder if there is a faster way to do it. In the back of a layout it'll occasionally have the room name. In the picture here you can see in the back it says "STORE ROOM". The lettering interferes with my bucket tool filling in the area I need to, so I'd have to spend time zooming in getting the little pieces. Any thoughts on how to best handle this?
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS2.png
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 7:19pm by Jeraziah
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS.png
The red colored in square was used with the simple 'Paint Bucket Tool'. I suppose the bucket tool is all I need, but I do have one other little issue and I wonder if there is a faster way to do it. In the back of a layout it'll occasionally have the room name. In the picture here you can see in the back it says "STORE ROOM". The lettering interferes with my bucket tool filling in the area I need to, so I'd have to spend time zooming in getting the little pieces. Any thoughts on how to best handle this?
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS2.png
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 7:19pm by Jeraziah
Jeraziah wrote:
I can't seem to get the color replacement tool to work. I am an extreme Photoshop novice, but I suspect it has something to do with this only being a single layer? This is what it looks like...
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS.png
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS.png
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The red colored in square was used with the simple 'Paint Bucket Tool'. I suppose the bucket tool is all I need, but I do have one other little issue and I wonder if there is a faster way to do it. In the back of a layout it'll occasionally have the room name. In the picture here you can see in the back it says "STORE ROOM". The lettering interferes with my bucket tool filling in the area I need to, so I'd have to spend time zooming in getting the little pieces. Any thoughts on how to best handle this?
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS2.png
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 7:19pm by Jeraziah
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS2.png
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 7:19pm by Jeraziah
I apologize for my stupidity but I'm still having problems with the tool =/ I added the white layer and flattened it as you said. When I try to use the color replacement tool now with a Teal color, you can see what is happening in this picture...
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS3.png
What am I doing wrong? I'd like all the white turned into the color of my choice. As I said in my previous post, I'd use the bucket tool but there are times on the layout where text is in the background and makes it a lot of work where I have to zoom in to bucket the little spaces created by the lettering.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h204/OrbitzXT/AdobePS3.png
What am I doing wrong? I'd like all the white turned into the color of my choice. As I said in my previous post, I'd use the bucket tool but there are times on the layout where text is in the background and makes it a lot of work where I have to zoom in to bucket the little spaces created by the lettering.
To be honest, I'm not sure what's going on there other than that it doesn't look like the color replacement tool likes to work with white.
I see, so should I just deal with the bucket tool and have to fill in the spaces that lettering in the background may create? Or is there an easier way to do what I need?
Jeraziah wrote:
I see, so should I just deal with the bucket tool and have to fill in the spaces that lettering in the background may create? Or is there an easier way to do what I need?
Create a new layer over the background one, set it to Multiply, color over it to your heart's desire.
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 10:19pm by Sweetums
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 10:19pm by Sweetums
Yeah.... Never having done anything with Photoshop you're going to be lost.
Same, I guess, with acrobat.
Are you going to have to do stuff like this all the time?
Same, I guess, with acrobat.
Are you going to have to do stuff like this all the time?
Sweetums wrote:
Create a new layer over the background one, set it to Multiply, color over it to your heart's desire.
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 10:19pm by Sweetums
Edited, Sep 6th 2010 10:19pm by Sweetums
This worked pretty good for my needs, thanks a lot. Off to work now, I'll see if I run into any road bumps.
Greetings extremely knowledgeable and helpful people. I come back with new requests of information. The tips you all offered worked great, but a coworker said that the highlighting done in the other PDF program, Bluebeam, can also act as a counter as well which would be extremely helpful to me.
Basically what I do is take an electrical drawing/layout, and highlight certain symbols a certain color, and I also have to do a count of that particular item as well. So for example, if I have 10 fire alarms spread across a drawing, I want to color code them as red, and it would be nice if as I'm doing that it kept count as well. With Bluebeam, you can also select 1 of the 10 fire alarms, and it'll highlight the other 9 to show where they are.
If you're wondering why I don't just use this software, it's only on one of the PCs at work and they can't seem to find the disk they use to install it. I even attempted to find it through other means (Hint: Yarrrr....'ing) and had no success.
Anyway, 10 fire alarms might not sound like a lot, but occasionally there can be a hundred light fixtures and color coding them takes long enough, going back to count can be quite the hassle.
Any thoughts on how to make my life easier? =/ Thank you all for the help you've given me thus far.
Basically what I do is take an electrical drawing/layout, and highlight certain symbols a certain color, and I also have to do a count of that particular item as well. So for example, if I have 10 fire alarms spread across a drawing, I want to color code them as red, and it would be nice if as I'm doing that it kept count as well. With Bluebeam, you can also select 1 of the 10 fire alarms, and it'll highlight the other 9 to show where they are.
If you're wondering why I don't just use this software, it's only on one of the PCs at work and they can't seem to find the disk they use to install it. I even attempted to find it through other means (Hint: Yarrrr....'ing) and had no success.
Anyway, 10 fire alarms might not sound like a lot, but occasionally there can be a hundred light fixtures and color coding them takes long enough, going back to count can be quite the hassle.
Any thoughts on how to make my life easier? =/ Thank you all for the help you've given me thus far.
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