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Quickly exporting images

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Quickly exporting images

- [Instructor] For the most amount of flexibility, you'll want to keep your layered Photoshop files, but most likely you'll also need to send those files to clients or share them with others in different file formats that are smaller and easier to transfer. And the best way to do this is by exporting them. I'm going to use the file menu and choose export and then export preferences, which are going to set up my preferences so that I can then use quick export. So in the export preferences, the default file format is actually PNG. So I'm going to switch that to JPEG because I often export as JPEGs and I'm going to lower the quality down to 90. I find that there's very little visual difference between 90 and 100. And if I set it to 90, the file size is usually reduced by about a 1/3. But of course, that's up to you as your preference. As far as a quick export location, I'm going to export the files to an assets folder…

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