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Understanding file formats

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Understanding file formats

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- [Instructor] There are a variety of file formats that you need to familiarize yourself with when you're working with images in Photoshop. To simplify the number of file formats, I'm going to divide them into three areas of the workflow. The original source, or capture, files; your working, or master, file formats, which will most likely be like your multi-layered retouched Photoshop files; and your output files, which are created for specific output devices. We'll start with image capture. So when you start with a photograph, the most common formats are JPEG and raw. JPEG is currently the most widely used file format in photography and it's the default format that most mobile devices, such as your phones, capture, and it's almost always an option for digital cameras. It's popularity is based primarily on the fact that JPEG files are really small, so you can store a large number of photos on a single device or card…

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