I often work with stock photos, and they are never in the correct orientation for the front of the books I work on. Generally, my procedure has been to drop the stock photo into a 300 ppi photoshop doc that is the exact size that I need for the front of the book. I then convert the stock photo to a smart object and size it up or down as needed. (This way I won't lose any data by sizing the image down.) Then if necessary, I do any color correction or photoshop work that might be needed. I then import the Layered tif into InDesign and when I have finalized the design, I usually flatten the tif and update it in InDesign. Is this a good way to work? |
