Adobe Photoshop CS4 is the leading image editing software among professional graphic designers and photographers. This powerful program allows you to create and edit multi-layered documents, apply a wide range of effects and filters, and adjust curves, transparency, color models and more. Photoshop CS4 also allows users to save images to a wide range of formats, including Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).
 Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
 
Begin the Export Process
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Open Photoshop CS4. The program is most commonly accessed by clicking the Windows Start button and selecting the following: "Programs" > "Adobe" > "Adobe Photoshop CS4."

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Create a new document or open an existing one. From the "File" menu, select "New" to create a new document or "Open" to select and open an existing image file. After you've finished editing the file, you can proceed with exporting.

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Click the "File" menu and select "Save As."

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Change the file name if needed, and select a save location for the PDF.

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Click the "Format" drop-down menu and select the "Photoshop PDF" option. Click "Save."

 
Choose PDF Options
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Select your general settings from the dialog box that follows.

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Choose specific settings for compression, output, and security by using the sub-menu on the left-hand side of the dialog box.

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Click "Save PDF" after confirming your choices to finalize the PDF export process. Your newly created PDF file is now ready to use.