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

Free-range images - Photoshop Tutorial

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

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Free-range images

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- As things stand now, there really aren't any rules to the internet, at least not in this country, not as I record this at any rate, but there are a few rules to creating images for the web. Your images can't contain layers, not the kind that Photoshop can read anyway. They generally have to be physically small, barely larger than a couple thousand pixels in either direction. Print size and resolution, by the way, are irrelevant. For pixel-based images, you are permitted three file format, JPEG, GIF, and everyone's favorite, PNG, the last of which permits you to include transparent or translucent pixels. For vectors including text, we have a format that we haven't seen so for, SVG. And finally, if you want your colors to survive with any degree of accuracy, you need to convert them to the lowest common denominator color space which is known as SRGB. Fortunately, Photoshop's various export commands take care of these issues. They flatten your files, allow you to adjust the images size, direct you to the proper file formats, and convert your images to SRGB. There's just one more rule that isn't so much a rule as a bit of advice, and that advice is to include copyright, credit, and a URL so a person who downloads your image can find out who you are, and maybe even contact you. In fact, I am so adamant that this is something you should do with every image you put out there that I'm going to lead with this information right up front. So don't be like everyone else and post terrible-looking cat photos. Watch this chapter and learn how to create the best-looking cat photos there are.

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