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Saving and opening files in Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial

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Saving and opening files in Photoshop

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- [Instructor] When we're finished making our adjustments in camera raw, we'll have a number of different options to either apply those adjustments and open the document in Photoshop or save and convert the image to another file format. So let's take a look at these options. I'll use command R on Mac, Control R on Windows to open up the basalt columns. Now if we want to open the file in Photoshop after we've made our adjustments in Camera Raw, we'll want to click the workflow hyperlink at the bottom of the camera raw dialogue. Here we can choose the color space that we want to work in. I'm going to leave this at Adobe RGB as well as the bit depth. So I'm going to set this to 16 bits so that we have more headroom. If we need to make additional changes to the image in Photoshop, we can choose to resize our image when we open it. But I'm going to leave that off because I want to edit a full size image so that I have all of the information in Photoshop. We can also add output sharpening. However, I'm not going to add sharpening if I'm going to continue to work on the image in Photoshop, because if I do add my sharpening here, it's going to add contrast along edges. And then when I bring that file into Photoshop, if I do something like add an adjustment layer or I want to make a composite, I might be amplifying those edge artifacts. So I'll leave that off and then we can open these images as smart objects into Photoshop. But by default, Photoshop hands off a pixel based file so that you can continue to edit the images, say by retouching them with the healing brush. If you choose to open the file as a smart object, then Photoshop hands off the entire DNG file with all of the settings to a special type of layer in Photoshop called a smart object. The disadvantage is that you can't edit the pixels in a smart object directly. So you can't use, say, the Healing Brush, or you can't paint directly on the image, but the advantage is that you have access to all the raw information. We'll find out more about smart objects later in this course, but we'll leave it off as the default. Alright, let's close that and then I'll select Open in order to open this file into Photoshop. And for now, I'll just choose file and then save as, and we can see that it defaults to the PSD file format. I'll save it back into the camera raw folder as a Photoshop document and embed the color profile. I'll choose save and then close, and then we can return to Bridge where we can see the original DNG and the PSD file. All right, let's open the DNG file again in camera raw and if I've made changes to this and I don't have to do any further editing in Photoshop, then I can click on this downward pointing arrow to open up these save options. Here we can choose to save this in the same location or in a new location. I'm going to go ahead and save it with the original. It automatically selects the folder that it's in currently, I can rename the file. So in this case, I'm going to imagine that I'm going to save this to email it to someone, and I'm going to email it at a smaller size. So I'll use the underscore 1200 PX to add that to the original file name. For the format, I'll select JPEG. I only want to include my copyright and contact information. And to keep the file size down, I'll leave this set to high. For the color space, I'll choose Adobe RGB. And because JPEGs can only have eight bits per channel, it's not going to allow me to change that here. Then to resize it, I'll actually select the long side option. This makes it very easy, especially if you have multiple images that you are going to save out at once. And some of them are horizontal and some of them are vertical to define the number of pixels or inches or centimeters of the long dimension of the image. So in this case, I'll enter in 1200 and I will add output sharpening because I'm not taking this to Photoshop. So I'll select screen and then leave it set to standard. Now if you're going to use these settings again, you can always save them as a preset. For now, I'll choose save, and then done. And in Bridge we can see the original and the new JPEG file that we just created. So the next time you're finished editing your photos in camera raw, be sure to set the workflow settings before you open your image into Photoshop or use the save options to save off a derivative of your original.

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