In this lesson and in this section you're going to learn about the different ways to export or save
your projects.
So pretty self-explanatory.
Like most applications in the File menu you have an option for saving and this file menu is very long
whereas it right in the middle saving.
So if you click save it's just going to save this as a photoshop file.
If you use save as you can save it as a new photoshop file but what you're really looking for is more
of an option for exporting as a j peg image or a PMG image or some other file type so that you can use
this to post online or to print or things like that.
So to do that go to File Export.
There are a lot of options down here too.
You could do a quick export as PMG and that's just going to pick standard PMG file settings and that
pages are great because they're full resolution great quality for uploading or printing but the file
size can be kind of large.
So if you want to have the option to export it as a another file type go to File Export as this will
open up this new window with all kinds of options for format so you can choose PSG j peg gif.
We haven't even gotten into this and we're not really gonna get into this in this course at least right
now.
But you can actually create videos or animated GIFs with this gifs gifs.
However you want to call it s v G which is a vector file so if you're creating graphics or something
like that that you're going to import or use and like Adobe Illustrator as might be good but for 99
percent of us what we want to do is save it as a j peg so we can posted online below this you have a
quality slider.
So this is literally going to decrease the quality of your image.
If I go really far down it should give us a preview of what it's going to look like.
Still looks pretty good actually on this monitor but you can see the background colors see how there's
waves in there.
That's what happens when you decrease the quality of a JPEG.
It actually has fewer colors and so smooth single color objects can start to look a little distorted.
Typically you just want to leave that at 100 percent unless you're trying to save file.
You're trying to decrease the file size you can see sort of an estimate of what this file size is going
to be.
So we can decrease this say like 60 and then you can see that drop to one point five or one point two
megabytes which is a little bit better.
You can also adjust the image size.
So this is a square but maybe you don't need thirty five hundred pixels maybe you just need a 1000 by
1000 pixel image for posting online.
You can do that by typing in 1000.
You could scale it down with these specific scale presets.
You can also do another form of scaling here right here where you say scale and you can scale it by
up to three times.
It's a quick way to save your photo and or whatever project you're doing as a a larger file size.
So say you have created a project at 1000 by 1000 pixels but you realize you want to save it as a two
thousand by two thousand pixel project.
You could actually use this scale all option and it will scale everything so you don't lose quality
when saving it.
This next option for canvas size actually crops the canvas so say you realize you need it to be you
know a hundred pixels tall.
This is like a last minute option for cropping or scaling the actual canvas size so not the size of
your your project your full image but the actual canvas you're working on and then you have options
for saving metadata to the image.
You can include some copyright and contact information or just none.
So if you're a photographer it's probably a good idea to include the copyright in contact information
which will be part of the metadata from your your photos.
If you're editing them already or that can be setup in your preferences and then color space convert
to S R B is what you're going to want to choose.
Then you click export you choose where you want to export to hit that return button and it's gonna save
it.
So if we go to our desktop find this photo of this one thousand by 1000 pixel photo that we can share
online.
However we want and really quickly I just want to show you where you add that metadata option.
If you're curious go to a file file information.
And here's this window where you can add all kinds of information.
So the author information you can add keywords copyright information for if it's copyrighted or not
you can actually create a template if you want.
So that this is applied in the future if you want to to add this to all of your projects.
So all kinds of information here that you can add there's different preset sort of information you might
need or want depending on the file type as well.
And then once you add that click OK save it and you have the option for including the metadata that
will actually save on the file itself.
Cool.
Thanks so much for watching and we'll see.
In another lesson.