This document discusses different file formats that can be used in Photoshop, including their purposes and characteristics. RAW files store the most image data from the camera sensor but are large in size. PSD files are the standard format for editing images in Photoshop and support layers and transparency. TIFF files can also support layers and are lossless but can be very large. JPEG files are best for web or sharing due to their smaller size but lose image quality each time they are edited and saved. PNG files allow transparency and lossless compression. The document recommends editing RAW files in Photoshop and saving work as PSD or TIFF files before exporting as JPEG for web or printing.
This document discusses different file formats that can be used in Photoshop, including their purposes and characteristics. RAW files store the most image data from the camera sensor but are large in size. PSD files are the standard format for editing images in Photoshop and support layers and transparency. TIFF files can also support layers and are lossless but can be very large. JPEG files are best for web or sharing due to their smaller size but lose image quality each time they are edited and saved. PNG files allow transparency and lossless compression. The document recommends editing RAW files in Photoshop and saving work as PSD or TIFF files before exporting as JPEG for web or printing.
This document discusses different file formats that can be used in Photoshop, including their purposes and characteristics. RAW files store the most image data from the camera sensor but are large in size. PSD files are the standard format for editing images in Photoshop and support layers and transparency. TIFF files can also support layers and are lossless but can be very large. JPEG files are best for web or sharing due to their smaller size but lose image quality each time they are edited and saved. PNG files allow transparency and lossless compression. The document recommends editing RAW files in Photoshop and saving work as PSD or TIFF files before exporting as JPEG for web or printing.
This document discusses different file formats that can be used in Photoshop, including their purposes and characteristics. RAW files store the most image data from the camera sensor but are large in size. PSD files are the standard format for editing images in Photoshop and support layers and transparency. TIFF files can also support layers and are lossless but can be very large. JPEG files are best for web or sharing due to their smaller size but lose image quality each time they are edited and saved. PNG files allow transparency and lossless compression. The document recommends editing RAW files in Photoshop and saving work as PSD or TIFF files before exporting as JPEG for web or printing.
Formats Using different file types in Photoshop Photoshop has lots of different file types for different purposes
What different kinds of file formats
can you think of? You can have different versions of the same file in different file formats RAW File • The camera RAW file is an uncompressed file format • Can have various file extensions such as .nef, .cr2, .RAF • It offers the most flexibility in the editing process as it holds lots of information • RAW files are a large file type in terms of Mb • RAW files give the very best quality images the camera can record PSD File • PSD stands for Photoshop Document. • It is the standard file format for use in Photoshop. • PSD supports the use of Transparency in images and allows the use of Layers in Photoshop. • The PSD format is the ideal format to edit images in before printing out or uploading to the internet. • PSD files can not be printed in their native format. • PSD can only be opened in photoshop TIFF File • TIFF stands for Tagged Image File Format • TIFF used to be the best possible option for saving images as it is a lossless format. • TIFF can save layers • TIFF files can be extremely large and can handle more than 2GB which may slow your system • TIFF can be viewed out of photoshop JPEG File • JPEG uses the extensions .jpg or .jpeg, they do the same thing. • Jpegs compress file information and will lose information (flattens the image) • This makes them small and manageable. • They are ideally suited to use on the internet or for sending digitally. • Repeatedly saving a jpeg will damage the file quality. PNG File • Portable Network Graphics • Users can open PNG images with a large number of free and commercial programs • It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and is compressed with lossless compression • Will allow a cut out image to be saved with no background (transparent) Quick Fire Quiz
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The Digital File Workflow
Save Jpeg files
Shoot images as RAW Edit RAW file in from your PSD or files in your Camera. Photoshop and save a TIFF to print from Always a good idea to working file as a PSD or or upload to the shoot to Jpeg also. TIFF document. internet. • What are the advantages and disadvantages of the following file types: In groups • JPEG • TIFF • PSD Take screenshots as we move through each step so that you can refer to it later. Adobe Photoshop Make notes to accompany the Workshop screenshots
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