avatar, free, image size command, Output, photoshop elements 8, resample, resize, resolution, save, signature, Web Design, Tips & Tricks
There are stacks of tutorials on the web that guide you through the process of making signatures and avatars. Most of them focus on the design side of things - how to pull off that effect? How to add this face? How to blend the colours? Considerably fewer detail what I consider to be the technical side of the creation - how to work out the right dimensions? Achieve the right file size? Keep it active and visible on a community? And the mysteries of saving to the right format? In this tutorial I'm going to provide answers to all those technical questions, and others along the way.
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archive, back up, beginner's guide to photoshop elements, catalogue, colour settings, Commands / Tools, flatten image, free, gif, image size command, JPEG, Output, photoshop elements 6, print, PSD, quality settings, resolution, save, send via email, version sets, video tutorial
Once you have the perfect image, chances are you’re going to want to show other people your work. Photoshop Elements allows you to do this in a number of ways, whether by printing the image using a local inkjet printer, sending via email or placing on a web site or image hosting service. How you decide to ‘output’ the image will determine how you save it, what format, what quality settings, what size! You’ll need to know how to balance out the quality of the final image and achieve manageable file sizes for your output criteria all at the same time.
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A quick look at Photoshop's native file format - the awesome PSD file! Capable of saving all the elements of a Photoshop document, including layers, colour settings, alpha channels, live text and much, much more, the PSD format is the ultimate safety net in Photoshop's high flying world!
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compression, free, gif, guide to file formats, JPEG, lossless, optimize, Output, photoshop cs2, PNG, save, web, video tutorial
The PNG-8 and PNG-24 formats are ofter compared to the GIF and JPEG formats respectively, in this tutorial we'll look at where this is a fair comparison - and where it's not!
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aldus, archive, compression, free, guide to file formats, lossless, lossy, lzw compression, Output, photoshop cs2, save, tiff, video tutorial
The Tagged Image File Format is a great way to apply loseless compression to an image. Thanks to it's popularity within the world of graphic design and image editing, the TIFF file has become a common format for achiving and even short term storage. In this tutorial we'll look at how a TIFF file can be used along side Adobe Photoshop.
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Ever created a complex selection outline and then needed it long after you'd deselected it? In this tutorial you'll see how to save a selection as a channel, leaving it available to reselect at any time.
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