How To Choose The Best File Format When Saving Images

By Jan Kabili · Issue: V3N4 (2006)

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PSD, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, oh my! How’s a person to know which file format to use when saving an image in Photoshop Elements?

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1 Reply to How To Choose The Best File Format When Saving Images:

Jerry
July 1, 2011 at 6:44 pm

good article and furnishes me with the credibility to back up what I have been advising for years — don’t archive in JPG format!!

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