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PAINTING
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| Saving your Painting |
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| To many of you this may all sound very obvious, but from experience
I know some people do have their difficulties with this. |
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| 1. You have three saving options, marked white in the
graphic below: |
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SAVE - is just that, to save an image as it is.
SAVE AS - if you have saved your painting before and are now working
on it again, and are unsure whether you prefer it as it was before, or as
it is now. You can now choose to "Save As", which gives you a
chance to rename your picture to something different than the original name.
With "Save", it would just save over the previously saved version.
SAVE FOR WEB - Compresses an image for web use. This is best for small
or resized images. |
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| 2. If you are working with layers, be sure you save
(or save as) your painting in the correct format! - When layers are present
in an image, Photoshop usually selects the correct format for saving by
default: the PSD file format. |
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Also, make sure that the box next to "Layers" is
ticked when you want to save an image with layers intact. - Usually PS will
warn you when you are about to save an image with layers in a format that
doesn't support layers. This may sound silly, but pay attention when
you save your work. Once something is saved and closed, it cannot be undone.
The PSD file format saves pictures at a very high quality, whereas formats
like JPG or GIF compress images (good for the Web) - that is when you often
get some pixelisation. So, even if your painting doesn't contain layers,
do save it in the PSD format. |
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| 3. When you want to "Save for Web", make
sure you flatten your image first if you have used layers, and also resize
it - the "Save for Web" option only works with images up to a
certain size. |
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You can choose the format - JPEG, GIF, PNG and WBMP. For paintings
I would suggest either JPEG or PNG, since GIFs only use 256 colours, and
that will most likely make your painting look very pixellated. GIFs are
good for small graphics with not too many colours.
You can see the byte size of your image at the bottom of the preview window,
on the left. Images used on the Web usually are no larger than 200kb, to
keep down loading times.
Play around with the settings on the right - it's better to see it for yourself
what it looks like than have me explain it all. |
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4. Last but not least a small tip for when you resize
images to something small.
You will notice that when you reduce a painting from (i.e.) 10.000 pixels
down to 800 pixels in size, it will most likely lose some of its sharpness.
To fix that, go into Filter in the main menu of Photoshop, select "Sharpen",
and then "Unsharp Mask": |
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| This palette should pop up: |
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| You can change the settings, and the preview will show you
what it looks like. Once you are happy with it, click OK. - Make sure though
it's not too much, or else it will look as though the outlines of your objects
in the painting are "flaring". |
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