Creating Images in Adobe Photoshop for Video
If you want your images from Adobe Photoshop to look good in TV land then you need to pay close attention to a few critical steps when setting up your document in Photoshop.
To make them look they way you intended for your NTSC monitor here are a few key steps. There are various version depending if you are making an image for SD or HD these steps are for NTSC SD 4:3.
1.Create a new document.
2.In the New dialog box, choose the appropriate preset from the Preset menu for the video system on which the image will be shown.
3. I like to turn on the Action Safe and Title Safe areas to make sure that my image will be seen they way I want it displayed.
4. (Optional) Choose View > Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction to turn off the scaling correction and view the image as it displays on a computer (square pixel) monitor.
Follow these few steps and your image will turn out just as you inteded.
