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Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Save for Web - Powered by Image Ready
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If
you have been reading my recent articles and tutorials on
Adobe Lightroom you know by now that I would like to see this
very valuable tool for web designers included in Adobe Lightroom.
Not
all photographers are dependent on printing their images or
having their image files reproduced in magazines and books
(at least not all the time). And all current indicators say
that in the future more and more photography will remain digital
throughout it's entire lifespan. In other words I believe
that the Internet and other forms of digital media are just
as important now and probably will be more important than
print production in the future.
Just
as an example go to your local news stand and see how many
Macintosh magazines you can find (there used to be quite a
few), then go online and see how many Macintosh websites there
are.
The beauty of the Save For Web tool is that it allows you
to see up to four images at one time that all have various
degrees of JPEG compression applied to them. Rather than just
guessing that Quality 60 will make an OK image at a reasonable
size, you can actually see that a TIFF image that was 991K
will go down to 83.8K at 60 Quality JPEG and that it will
take 31 sec @ 28.8 Kbps to download on the Internet.
If
the resulting image looks OK but is too large and too slow,
you can try 55 Quality JPEG and see if that still works for
you. Go too far down in the compression and you can see the
image fall apart right on the screen.
In
this variation of the 4-Up screen you can see a comparison
between the same image in TIFF, JPEG, GIF, and PNG-8 formats.
The
Optimized screen lets you see a larger image of one Save variation
(all formats and variations can also be accessed from this
screen.
The 2-Up screen looks an awful lot like the Before and After
screen in the Develop Module of Adobe Lightroom. Only difference
is here we are focused on image format, size and resolution.
Am
I the only one or does anyone else think this feature of Photoshop
CS2 (Powered by ImageReady) belongs in Adobe Lightroom.
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in these articles ...... George
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