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Introducing Photoshop (Part 2)

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Hello Everyone, I'm going to continue the last post " Introducing Photoshop " here. I'm going to cover these following topics : • Documents management • Photoshop preferences • Color Settings • History Hope you will enjoy it. Alright, lets get started. Documents Management By default, when you open images in Photoshop CS6, they open in tabs (as tabbed windows) and all the images are nested in a group, as shown here: 1. Open at least two images and notice how they open in tabs. If you don’t like your images to appear in tabs, you can change it in your Preferences. Here’s how: 2. Open your Photoshop Preferences in Interface category: Edit > Preferences > Interface on Windows, Photoshop > Preferences > Interface on Mac.  3. Check on unchecked  Open Documents as Tabs option: This option allows you to decide whether you want the images to open in tabbed panels or  as floating windows. To switch between the images you just cli

Save Images for the Web

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     Using the Save For Web feature is the best way to save images in a format that  is web friendly and will work with any Internet-related task: social media, websites,  email, texting. What’s more, the feature is designed to make the smallest file  possible, so it will remove any unnecessary data from the image files, including  metadata  (you can select how much metadata to retain).  Saving image for the web can be a little confusing initially because you have to choose  from multiple online-friendly formats. Let’s talk about the three image formats that  are most popular online and when to use each.      JPEG (pronounced “jay-peg”) is the most popular format for photographic images.  You can set image quality when saving in Photoshop to find the best  balance between file size and image quality. JPEG files can end in a .jpg or  .jpeg extension.      GIF (pronounced “jiff” or “ghif”) is a popular image format for images  without a lot of colors. The format is also popular wh