Art Adobe Photoshop

[Guest Sean]

Hey people, am starting a thread here about Adobe Photoshop or mainly most graphic programs

But my main problem is that how do you change the extension .psd into say .jpg

-EDIT- oh damnit, erm, could ah mod please move this into PC/MAC section, damnit, sorry about that, clicked on the wrong place

[Syk3]

Well, considering this [i]is[/i] an Art forum, and members are free to share work that they've created in graphic programs such as Photoshop, I think that this thread would do fine here, heh.

If you want to change the extension, just click the down arrow for the dop down menu when saving your piece. Simple as that.

[PiroMunkie]

[size=1]I am assuming most of what you are going to do with Photoshop are web graphics, so I suggest using the [i]Save for Web[/i] option. I believe the keyboard shortcut for that is [i]Alt+Ctrl+Shift+S[/i]. It might seem like a lot to be a shortcut, lol, but I can do it without looking. They are pretty close to each other.

A large window will appear showing a preview of your graphic and customizable settings to the right. From there you can change it to several extensions, JPG and GIF included of course. Usually you do not have to worry about anything that is preset. So do not be too intimidated by it.

The benefit to to the [i]Save for Web[/i] option is that it optimizes your graphic, meaning it is giving you the lowest file it can size while trying to maintain the original quality of the graphic.

For example, if you have it set to be saved as a JPG, you will see the quality probably automatically set to 100. Obviously, you will pretty much have the original quality of the graphic, and the highest file size. However, most of the time you can drop that to 80 and [i]barely[/i] see many differences, while lowering the file size a bit.

With GIFs, usually I do not try to mess much with lowering their file size, but you can use the Lossy. I am not sure what it is actually doing, but too much of it can be a bad thing, lol. Try it out and you will see why. It is as if you were using the Wind filter. However, it can help if you feel like lowering the file size a little.

There are a few other extensions, variations of PNG and BMP I believe, but I have never really messed with them.[/size]

[Guest Sean]

That worked, YAY, lol, thanks i didn't have a clue and i was trying to upload it, and then you had to download it, then you had to have Photoshop to see it, so it was all confuzzled, lol (my new word). Well heres one of my banners i made, its like one of my first ones so constructive critiscm would be nice, lol, not too bad :D

[IMG]http://img24.exs.cx/img24/2827/banner-kyo-kyosean.jpg[/IMG]

So what do people think off that ^^ i know it sucks, lol

[Pawn114]

I like it, and hey... I saw confuzzeled! that is totally my term... Thief! :laugh:

The only problem that hits me is the color, I dont know if its just me or what, but the beige seems to be a little off. That might just be personal preference, or might be something to do with the actual color you selected. Aside from that, nice work!

[Guest ScirosDarkblade]

There's also this way: go to Layer->flatten image (which will prompt you asking if you want to discard all hidden layers--of course you do; just make sure the ones you keep aren't hidden so you know what you're being left with). Then you have a one-layer picture. Then just "Save As" and choose jpg from the drop-down list. Pick a quality from 1 to 12. I usually go with 8 or 9, but it depends on how complex the pic is and how much it would suffer from a lower quality setting.

[PiroMunkie]

[quote name='ScirosDarkblade']There's also this way: go to Layer->flatten image (which will prompt you asking if you want to discard all hidden layers--of course you do; just make sure the ones you keep aren't hidden so you know what you're being left with). Then you have a one-layer picture.[/quote][size=1]This will not work correctly if you want an image with a transparent background, in which you want to "Merge Visible Layers" ( [i]Ctrl+Shift+E[/i] ). This will automatically get rid of any hidden layers, as well as maintain the transparent background.

Flattening the image will fill the transparent area with white.[/size]

[Petie]

[color=blue]To save as a .gif, just click File -> Save for Web. To save as something like .jpg, click File -> Save. Now where it says Photoshop (*.PSD,*.PDD), drop down that menu and you can see the other choices. I'm using Photoshop CS (it's basically Photoshop 8) and I know this works in it. I don't remember if it works in 6 or 7 but if it doesn't, instead of clicking Save, just use Save As and you'll be fine.[/color]

[Semjaza]

I very, very rarely use Photoshop's plain save option for anything that's lossy. Anything I want to compress, I do it in save for web. It's the only way to guarantee nice picture quality and decent file size. Sometimes you don't know what will result just by saving it as a different file extension.

Obviously, for anything other than the internet, save for web is crap. It automatically forces 72dpi. Fine for monitors, not fine for prints. If you're saving stuff you want to print or use in some decent way, 150 or 300 dpi should be your starting standards.