Chapter 3. Creating and Saving Image Files

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What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

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How to open existing images and create new ones

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How to save image files in different formats

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Ways to save images that are optimized for the World Wide Web

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How to go back and undo your mistakes

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Any time you want to create artwork from scratch—a new logo for your business, signs for your garage sale, or whatever—you need to create a new file in which to save that artwork. In the last hour, you created an empty file so that you could experiment with the Editor’s tools. Now we’ll take you back to that process and examine your options more closely. We’ll ...

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