UDEMY COURSE: EDIT PORTRAIT PHOTOS IN PHOTOSHOP LIKE A PRO, by Chad Neuman, Ph.D.

COMMON FILE FORMATS IN PHOTOSHOP

PSD

JPEG

RAW

TIFF

Pros:

Pros:

Pros:

Pros:

Created specically for

Photoshop

Easily shareable and

transferable to others without
Photoshop

Has more information than

JPEG, since there is no
compression or preset white
balance and sharpening added

Can be saved uncompressed

up to 4GB or be saved using
a compression technology to
have a smaller le size

No image quality loss due to no

compression

Cons:

Can retain layers, adjustments,

styles, and other image edit
information
Works well when inserting into
other Adobe programs such as
InDesign

Smaller le size
Cons:
Compression technology, so
there is loss of data/image
quality

Cons:

Very large size les

JPEGs lack multiple layers and

are attened images

Requires software to open and

view les, such as Photoshop

Cannot be viewed or inserted

into many of the other photo
editing programs

Can lose noticeable quality

if saved below the maximum
setting of 12

Cons:

Does not retain all the

information that PSD format
does

Larger le sizes

OTHER FORMATS
GIF: This format should not be used for portrait photos, since it only has 256 colors available. It is better for raster version of logos. It
can be used to create web animation les or images with transparent areas of pixels.
PNG: Meant as an improvement to GIF, PNG has improved transparency capabilities and is a popular format to use for web images,
since it has lossless compression technology. However, it does not support CMYK mode, so it is not meant for printing high quality
photographic prints.
PSB: Same options as PSD, but for les larger than 2GB