From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

The many ways to save - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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The many ways to save

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- Saving your work may seem like a simple matter of going to the File menu and choosing the Save command, which is usually the way it works in other programs. But if you haven't figured it out yet, Photoshop is not other programs. Granted, Photoshop does in fact offer a native file format known as PSD, short for Photoshop Document. PSD is the standard format for saving layers, which is ultimately why I decided to introduce you to layers before showing you how to save. But Photoshop also supports those formats I introduced back in Chapter One, including TIF, PNG, and JPEG. It does not save to DNG. That is the domain of the Camera Raw plugin, which we'll get to later. But among those formats it does save, each format, including PSD, requires a different approach. Seriously, you'd think you'd just enter a file name and you're done. But each format responds to you with its own unique dialog box. Photoshop also saves what it calls cloud documents, which do not live on a local hard drive, they live in the cloud, in which case, you have no control over the file format. It's always PSDC, in which case, that file is available everywhere, Mac, PC, iPad, maybe one day your phone. And that's not all. Photoshop very subtly tells you when you have unsaved changes. If you save and you don't mean to, Photoshop lets you undo that save. If you revert an image to its saved state on disk, you can undo the revert. You can auto-save without harming the original file, unless it's a PSDC file, in which case it auto-saves automatically. Which is why this chapter is not just about the Save command, it's about making sure that you are always safe. Here, let me show you in almost obsessive detail exactly how to create a network of security cameras around each and every one of your very important pixels.

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