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Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorials
Saving and Exporting / Save Documents
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Of all the lessons on this tutorial this is perhaps the most important, this will prevent you from going into a fetal position and crying for days and that is saving documents. When I was 19 years old I was working on one of my first books and my uh computer crashed because a light bulb blew out and so it shorted my computer out and I lost like forty or fifty pages that I was writing. And I woke up about four or five days later, I remember nothing from that time, so let's never speak of it again. Now saving documents is so important I'm gonna show you a couple of ways to do it. And I suggest that you press command or control S every ten or fifteen minutes when you are working on a file so you can save it. Now to save a document you have to go to file and choose of course save. Now save is already ghosted out because I saved this once before. So the first time you save it this will be illuminated and you can choose save then you can name your document. Now in the future what I highly suggest you do is save iterations of your file. So you would go to file, save as, and this would give you an opportunity to incrementally save your files. Why would you want to do this? Why would you want to choose save as? Well I'm gonna do it right now, I'm gonna go to file save as, I'm gonna go to my desktop and I'm gonna name this earth fever2. Or you can choose B or O2 or whatever you like and I'm gonna save that. So what happens is if I'm working on this one here and my computer crashed and let's say I worked on earth fever1 30 minutes ago, well this one might be lost to me so I only have to go backwards in time 30 minutes instead of going back hours and hours. So every half an hour or every, every session at the end of your working session just go to file, save as and then save that as version c, d, and so on. So you can always go back a little bit instead of going back all the way. So once again save your documents it's very important, don't trust your computer to not crash because there is no guarantee on hard drive technology. Let me say that again, there is no guarantee. You can buy a new computer today and your hard drive could crash today and that's very important to understand that. So they could last for five years, ten years, or they can crash today. So save all the time and if you're working on a file for a client definitely back it up to a cd or a DVD at least on a weekly basis so that you can always go backwards. You know what you don't ever want to start from scratch. So once again choose file save, the very first time you save your file, give it a name, give it the file type, like such as tif, or psd or whatever and then every once in awhile, incrementally save by choosing save as and as you work every once in while, every ten, fifteen minutes just get into the habit of pressing command or control S to save your file.
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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