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The many ways to save

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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 just enter a file name and you're done, but each format responds to you with its own unique dialogue box. Photoshop also saves what it…

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