Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials
Output / File Formats
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There are a lot of different files formats each with the appropriate extension but sometimes they are a little confusing to people as to when to use which one for what purpose. So what I want to do is just take a tour of some of the ones that you'll probably find that you use most often or that you receive most often from people to work on. So I'm gonna go to file and I'm gonna choose save as, to show you a dialog box will open, and as you see here we have a format, a drop down list and let's go ahead and talk about some of the formats here and once again I'm gonna cover just a few of them that you probably run into most often. The first one of course is Photoshop and when I choose Photoshop of course the extension will change for me and psd simply stands for Photoshop document. Now why would you want to use a Photoshop document, because when your working on the file and your building your layers and your building your special effects, well it's the Photoshop document file format. So Photoshop knows exactly what's going on in your document, it knows what all the special effects are, it knows everything. It's gonna keep track of your layers and your type faces and all this stuff that you put into this file so you always want to keep this as your master file document and when your ready to give it to your client you gonna then give him a tiff or a JPEG or whatever. I'm gonna talk about those in a, in a moment. So once again you are always gonna have this file format, even if you finish this document, save this so that three months down the road, four months down the road or whenever this client wants you to update that file you can open it up and all of your layers will be intact. Now we have something called a gift file or GIF and the extension is dot gif. You will normally file format for use on the Internet called the world wide web. And what happens is this file format will let you use pretty much flat colors such as the kind of colors you find in a comic strip. You know the Sunday paper, those, those flat colors that they use to paint Hager the Horrible or Charlie Brown, those are the kinds of colors that gif is really good for, although you can use continuous tone. But that brings me to the next guy here which is JPEG and I'm gonna come back to EPS in a second. Jpeg is really good for photographs that have a continuous tone, for example you going from a dark blue to light blue or a photograph of a person or organic elements. So JPEG is what I use pretty much for everything. I don't, I don't use gif at all, ever. Although I could, I use JPEG for everything when I'm doing something for the web or if I want to attach a file to email for a client to look at. So I use JPEG pretty much all day long. Now Photoshop EPS, EPS stands for Encapsulated Post Script and this is a good format to use when you want to take your file into a document editing application or a layout application such as Adobe Indesign so this is what this is for. We also have something here called the Photoshop pdf, portable document format and adobe has created the uh pdf file format which pretty much everybody's familiar with by now and this is like taking a picture of your page, your layouts. And you can even make a magazine in a pdf format. And the cool thing about pdf is that it kind of takes a picture of everything so that person on the other end doesn't have to have the font you have or the font that you use to create it. Its really cool. We have, let's see here, png. The PNG is trying to really become the new web format. It stands for portable network graphic and it retains transparency. I use this quite a bit on my website, it's pretty cool file format. Targa, targa is a great file format when you want to do images for a 3D application such as Lightwave although in Lightwave I still do bring in jpegs time to time targa is also a good file format to use for 3D applications. And last but not least we have tiff, tag image file format and tiff is uh was designed to uh be interchangeable between Macs and pc's so if I'm working on a tiff I can give it to you on a windows machine and you could open it up and work on it. Tiff also retains the layers and other information. So it's a good file format to use as well. Although if you really want to be uh, you know able to use all your layers I still recommend you keep it in the Photoshop psd file format. So that was a quick tour of some of the uh file formats that you'll run into most often in your daily work flow.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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