Preparing pictures for the Web, email, or PowerPoint

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Preparing pictures for the Web, email, or
PowerPoint

• General info
• Photoshops File ? Save for Web screen

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Screen vs print

• Screen resolution
• 72 to 100 ppi
• Not much information
• Small files
• Download time

• Print resolution
• 300 dpi and up
• A lot of detail required
• Large files
• Printing time not a major consideration

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Picture file types Print
Large files Lots of detail

• bmp
• Old but still popular
• tiff
• Generally used
• Available in high-end cameras
• psd
• Photoshop only
• raw
• Available in high-end cameras

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Picture file types Screen
Small files Enough detail to display

• jpg
• Most used for photos
• Compressed
• Adjustable quality
• Often loses information edited and resaved
• gif
• Most used for drawings, logos
• Limited color range (256)
• png
• Newer better but not yet generally used

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Things to do to photos

• Save a copy
• Never work on the original(just in case.)

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Making files smaller

• Why?
• Web download time
• Loading in PowerPoint
• Focusing attention
• How?
• Crop
• Resize
• Change format and resolution

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Cropping

• Cropping in PhotoShop handout
• Crop tool
• Draw rectangle around area to keep
• Start at top left
• Click and Drag to bottom right
• Hit Enter

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Resizing

• In PhotoShopFrom Top menu bar
• Image ? Image Size
• In Word or PowerPoint After using Insert ? Image
  ? from file
• Click image to select and
• Drag a corner anchor point

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Changing format and resolution

• Use the PhotoShopSave for Web Screen
• In PhotoShopFrom the menu bar, click File ?
  Save for Web.
• see your Preparing pictures handout

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Inserting into Office

• For all Microsoft Office programs
• From the menu bar, click Insert ? Picture ?
  From File
• Click picture to pop up the picture toolbar for
  additional processing

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Sample files

• Open Internet Explorer
• Go towww.ccsf.edu/vfascio
• Scroll down and click Preparing Images for the
  Web or for PowerPoint
• Right-click the name of a picture and choose Save
  target as
• Save to Desktop
• Open PhotoShop and open pic