Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Saving/Printing / Saving Prefs / File Info
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Well, what do we do when we are ready to save our file? There are several different options say I recommend that you consider before you save your file. First and foremost I recommend saving your file often, and if you are working in layers I recommend saving it in the Photoshop file format. But before we do that, I want to talk about another great feature in Photoshop, and that is the file information option. File info brings up this dialogue box, which allows us to type in some information that is saved as meta-data, or extra information along with your image. Now this collection of various text boxes was developed in association with the NAA, the Newspaper Association of America, and is also an international standard. So you can type in text to identify this in a very precise way. And you see all the various types of information it is asking for. Of course, you don't have to fill this out, but it can be helpful if you are transferring this file around, and somebody wants to get a hold of you or license this picture for use. And I'm going to choose the copyrighted work option here. And if you have a website, you might want to type that in. So you can see that we can actually type in a fair amount of data here, because at the top of my file info dialogue box, I have a pull down menu for various sections of this dialogue box. So we can type in keywords for a database search. And these would be added to certain image databases, allow you to look for that, and will pull this image up. And one cool thing is the EXIF information. This is information that was actually added to the original image from my digital camera. So I'm going to go ahead and say ok to that. And go back to this first viewing mode, the standard viewing mode. And notice that Photoshop has added this little copyright symbol to the title in the title bar. Briefly, I also want to talk about some saving file preferences. So I'm going to go to the preferences option and choose file handling, and talk about some of these items. I always have an image preview saved with my image. It will increase your file size a little bit. But if you are working on high-resolution files, hopefully you have enough room for this additional information. And it could be quite helpful when you are looking at thumbnails on your screen. So you can see that we have the option for icons, which I always choose, and thumbnails for the Mac and Windows platform, which I always choose. I generally do not choose a full size preview because that will start to add to your file size. And for file extension, I have always enabled. I always want my Photoshop files to add the format extension, and of course this was originally designed as a way for the Macintoshes to be compatible with PC, since many windows computers need the file format extension in order to open it. However, I find it is very helpful to look at multiple files and understand exactly what format that file is in, without actually having to open it.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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