Troubleshooting: Help please. Creating a PDF file from a Photoshop-designed project

I wanted to add personal design elements to my resume so I decided to use Photoshop to add in a logo and a footer. The problem is, when I converted the 3 Photoshop .psd files (3 pages) to .pdf files, the combined file came out to be very big in size. The biggest was 2.88 MB and the smallest that I got it to be without compromising the quality of the text and images was 1.48 MB.
What did I do wrong?
I've seen other .pdf files with more images and more color and definitely more pages and text which were only 300KB in size. How can I make my final .pdf file size small but still retain the quality of the original design from Photoshop?
I've tried merging the layers before saving. I've tried turning the files into .gif files before making the pdf. Into jpegs before making the pdf. Changing the canvas and image sizes in Photoshop into super small which made the final pdf file unreadable and super blurry. I'm at my wit's end.
Details:
.psd image size 8.5 by 11 inches (normal resume size)
colors - black, gray, light blue and light yellow
Images are very minimal, 4 lines total and around 5 circles at the header of the first page and footer of the 3rd page.
Help please!
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This is so sad. I read your comments and I said, "Huh?" Haha!
I tried the indexed color option and it did make the final file smaller. Around 600KB. But there's probably another way to make it even smaller like the gazillion-paged pdf file that I mentioned that was only about 300KB.
And by saying a layout program, does that mean like Adobe InDesign? Does that mean that I should just make my graphics in Photoshop and then import using another program and finish the file there?
What other layout programs can I use?
Thank you so much!

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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:20 PM, lrosenth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Re: How to create a pdf file from multiple images ?
>
> created by lrosenth in PDF Language and Specifications - View the full
> discussion
> ________________________________
>
> No clue who Irving is…
>
I was hoping to have your first name so its easy for me to address you.
> I have no clue what OS platform, programming language, etc. you use so
> can’t really narrow things down.
I would gladly mention that I am working on windows platform, preferably XP.
I can also work on linux for free products that come with it.
> Also, as this is an Adobe forum, we only
> recommend Adobe products – so there may be other options that even my list
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> If you read ISO 32000-1:2008 (aka the PDF standard), you will find the
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Well, ascii format or uncompressed format that is human readable. I
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