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Saving an interactive image to PNG

Saving an interactive image to PNG - Photoshop Tutorial

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Saving an interactive image to PNG

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- [Instructor] Now, let's take a look at the Portable Network Graphics format, better known as PNG, which is very popular in the world of interactive design, so, when creating our work for mobile devices, iOS, Android, that sort of thing. It's also very popular on the web. And so, like TIFF, it supports full color images, as well as lossless compression. Unlike with TIFF, the compression is applied automatically, so you don't have any control over that part. And, you can assign transparency as well. And so, here we have a couple of gradient layers, and one is contained inside of a layer mask. So, the first gradient looks like that, the one that's called "blueness", and then the horse gradient has shades of red and yellow. What I'm going to do is turn off the blueness layer right here, so that we're setting the horse against a transparent background, which is something that, unlike TIFF, PNG can accommodate. And now, I'll…

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