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Saving panoramas for printing

Saving panoramas for printing

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Saving panoramas for printing

- We just covered printing in specialty situations in our previous movie. What I want to talk now is which file formats are ideal. With the panoramic photo, you have a couple of choices. Once you have a file where you'd like it, I suggest saving for printing. Now, most print providers are going to want some additional information with the image. First up, you always want to check your mode. My suggestion is that unless you're doing professional printing, submit to your printer in RGB color. Now, your professional printer may want the CMYK, but usually they'll do the conversion for you. Also, sending a 16 bits per channel image is going to give you a better print. Now, use the save as command. What we can do here is save this out in a format that's printer friendly. Something like tiff is a good idea. And this will allow you to save the file. Now, I've already created one here under panorama for print, so I'll check that and I'll just overwrite my previous file. My suggestion is…

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