So you've got your new digital camera, and you're out and take some pictures ready. But what is the next step? Some form of Adobe Photoshop (preferably elements 3 or CS 2) is good, a great step in the right direction. Once you have installed the program, it would pick up damage, a Photoshop tutorial for it.
The Photoshop tutorial helps you understand what is the program and how, to use your tools to their full capacity. What cannot be answered, however is what format it uses and stores, and which pre-and disadvantages are the different file formats.
Photoshop has to store different kinds of files and open the ability, but more important is why these file types are available and how they used to your advantage should be aware. It is important to know about the different types of files as you learn Photoshop. There are three basic things that concern file format that determines should save your file as you: quality of image, layering and Web usage.
The quality of the image:
When you take your photos, use the highest pixel possible set your camera offers. For example, have a 5.1 megapixel camera, you should use this setting to your picture-the higher the pixilation, the greater the quality to capture. The thing to remember though, is that higher quality, the bigger the file. You have the ability to resize the file directly from the camera, and should consult your manual if this is something you want to do.
It is the best take your photos as a raw recording and convert later into something less, because you have the best way to manipulate the image if it is the largest, which can be it. After the photo taken and import it to your computer, can import as a .JPEG or .jpg or as a raw image. It is advisable, the raw image to save, because you lose some of the quality with the .jpg.
Layering:
Once you have the photo in your computer, the photo will normally open in your default software, so you must open Photoshop and then open the image. You can, all your resizing, layering and manipulation in the program do.
When you save the image directly into Photoshop, it will save it as a .psd, .pdd or .eps file. These formats are file maintain large and retain all layers, so keep that in mind when saving. If you're going, revise the picture later, it is best to store in this mode. If not, you have some other options.
TIF or TIFF was often with early scanners used and most of quality is preserved, but it stores large files and are best used if you are on a Publisher or printer to send.
That.BMP file or a bitmap is a Windows ® file, which creates good photos, but still a large file.
The .pdf is an Adobe Acrobat ® file and lock images and texts you can not continue editing. If you want to create files like this, must likely to buy the full version of Adobe Acrobat.
Web usage:
The best file formats for Web use, of course, would have small file sizes. Takes many times, but the color range and vibrancy of photos some of the compression.
Joint Photographic Experts Group - .jpg or .jpeg is probably the most popular Web form because it compresses the file to a small size, but still allows for displaying millions of colors. Photoshop give you the opportunity to choose the image you want to be as compressed and you want to play the color and the subtleties in the photo Adobe image ready, until you find a small file size, not to lose that.
Portable network graphics .png is a format developed recently that is popular for Web use. It compresses the files differently than does .jpg, but leaves it better quality photos. It the ability to millions of colors and slides but has retained, the size still relatively low. If you are on a PC, but keep in mind that Internet Explorer supports it.
Graphics Interchange format is or.gif other popular Web form but it is not good for photos. It is better for graphics and illustrations because it quickly loads and has the capacity for animation and transparent color.
This should be a useful guideline to get started in digital photography and manipulation world. Take the time to explore all possibilities of current programs and settings on your camera. Learning computer basics, the various photo editing programs can be a lot of hard work. If you want to master, everything immediately able will be frustrated you only at the end.
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