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Saving a flat photograph to JPEG

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Saving a flat photograph to JPEG

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to save an image to the JPEG format, which is ideally suited to archiving continuous-tone digital photographs. And by continuous-tone, I mean that, we have gradual transitions between neighboring pixels, as opposed to the abrupt transitions that are typical of graphic images. Now, JPEG does have its limitations. It is in no way, shape, or form capable of saving layers, nor does it support transparency, and it always relies on lossy compression, meaning that it has to rewrite the colors of pixels when it saves its files. But in return, you get much smaller file sizes. So, as you can see down here in the lower left corner of the window, this image takes up almost 43MB when flat, and then this value after the slash tells us it takes up 166MB in memory with layers. On disk, the native PSD file weighs in at 140MB, so a little smaller than a layered version in memory thanks to the PSD format's lossless compression, whereas the highest quality…

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