Photoshop CS2 - PDF files help

[lashbear]

[to the tune of the Pink Panther]
Pedant, Pedant, Pedant Pedant Pedant, Pedant Pedaaaaaan der der der der dant.

[blueerica]

Hehe, I only referenced CS2 because the version of Photoshop I use is the one that comes in that suite of programs.

What I do with the templates are change out BRM files for mailers with pieces to mail back change out a photo or two, and change some of the copy off of the template. When two of my co-workers do it with Photoshop, the file size remains relatively the same. When I do it, even without making changes, just opening-saving-closing, it blows up in size.

I could understand if it happened to everyone else using photoshop off the same template, but it seems to only be happening with me, and that is where my great concern lies. I think that the co-worker who has done most of the mailers uses a different version of Photoshop (unsure of which), and I don't know what my other co-worker does.

I think I may just help myself to breath easier if I can scrounge up a version of Illustrator to use. I'm totally unhappy using Photoshop, when there are much better programs to be using.

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Nit-picky post:

"CS" is not a program - it is a marketing name (acronym for "Creative Suite") to describe the "Suite" of programs from Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). Their are several programs within the "CS" family and several different groupings (depending on whether you are a print user, a web user, moving images user, etc.).

Photoshop is a raster-based image editing program.
Illustrator is a vector-based image editing/creation program.
(There are several other programs within the "CS" family, but those are the two main ones being discussed.)

Sorry for the pedantic interruption.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I knew what she was talking about and in the interest of not being MORE confusing, unlike some people...