Chapter 12. Image Storage and Output: The Right File for the Right Job

We’ve filled the last few hundred pages with techniques for making great-looking images in Photoshop. What we haven’t done yet is look at how to get these images out of Photoshop. Perhaps you’ll be printing your image directly from Photoshop. Or perhaps you’re saving the file to be used in a page-layout application, such as InDesign or QuarkXPress, or on a Web page. How you save your image or how you print it is determined by what you want to do with it next.

In this chapter we’re going to explore two key subjects: how to save your images to disk and how to create printed or online output. Along the way, we’ll also discuss some of the concepts you’ll need to be familiar with ...

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