 Tracy Reehal |
Layers in Photoshop CS2 Can anyone tell me how to save a file with layers? I'm new to PS CS2 and every time I use layers and save it ... my image is a bit distorted when uploaded on better photo. saving with layers increases the size and then I cant even upload it on this site. Can anyone tell me what format I should be saving this in so I can upload it to my gallery? Thanks!
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Melissa L. Zavadil |
Tracy, your master file (the one with all the layers) should be saved in PSD. After you are finished tinkering with that file, duplicate the file. Close out of the PSD file and go to the copied one. Save the copy to JPEG. It will flatten the file for you but, you still have your master so you could go back and make changes. JPEG is much smaller of a file, you should not have any problems uploading a JPEG file.
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Melissa L. Zavadil |
Great gallery by the way!!! :o)
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A C |
If you want to save as a TIFF instead of a JPEG, you can go about it this way: After saving the PSD file, go to the layers palatte. On the upper right side there should be a little arrow button. Click that and go down to "flatten image." Then do a "file" "save as" to save as a tiff. Make sure you do a "save as" and not just a "save" so you don't accidentally save over your PSD file.
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Dan Fogelberg |
For online galleries and email, I generally use the "Save for Web" option. After saving the original RAW or JPEG image as a TIFF file (with layers), the "Save for Web" provides a convenient way to prepare an image that will be seen on a computer screen at 72 dpi (screen resolution is much courser than what you'd want for prints). Click on the image size tab, and select a size compatible with the gallery requirements. For BetterPhoto.com I've used about 600 pixels as the larger dimension along with maximum JPEG quality, and the images seem to upload and display just fine. If you have a slower internet connection, you might have to experiment with more JPEG compression to reduce upload time. Photoshop "Save for Web" estimates upload time for various degrees of compression based on standard dialup speeds, so if you have broadband it will be much faster.
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