# Photoshop file conversion question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 16, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156 "2005-05-16T23:37:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156/1 "2005-05-16T23:37:05Z")

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In setting up an egroup, I’d like to have a picture on the entry page of our corporate logo, with a chapter line beneath. The corporate logo is in .pdf, and I successfully imported it to Photoshop and created a line of text for our chapter. Photoshop won’t let me save it as a .jpg anymore. If I scan the printed output .pds, I can save that as a .jpg, but it isn’t as crisp. The final product needs to be uploaded to the egroup host, which doesn’t accept .pds Ideas?

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156/2 "2005-05-16T23:38:53Z")

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That should have read “Corporate logo is in .jpg” :smack::smack:

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156/3 "2005-05-16T23:41:06Z")

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    - If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can open the PDF in that and then extract the logo image as a separate file, either as its original source or as an EPS that you can then run right back into PS and work with.  
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**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156/4 "2005-05-17T00:04:43Z")

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My guess is that Photoshop is treating it as a layered image, which won’t save as a jpeg. It often does this with PDFs. Go to Layer \> Flatten image, and see if you can save it as a jpeg then.

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**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156/5 "2005-05-17T00:11:01Z")

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Sorry, misread your OP, ignore the reason for my first response. But the solution is the same. Photoshop creates text as vector art, so it can’t be saved as a jpeg straight through. You do have to flatten the image first.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photoshop-file-conversion-question/304156/6 "2005-05-21T01:18:08Z")

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Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, but I followed your instructions **FlyingDragonFan** , and that worked out very nicely. I was able to upload the picture that I had modified, once it saved as a .jpg Thank you very much.