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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.

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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.

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Photoshop File

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

Introduction
Make notes of the shortcuts that
we use.
Collate Collate Notes from today's session

Add Add your notes to your website

Tasks
Write an introduction summarising your
Write knowledge of File types.

Write up notes from the Photoshop workshop


Write and illustrate with your screenshots

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