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How to Use the Photoshop Save for Web Tool

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Web-Ready Graphics

As a graphic designer, you may often be asked to deliver web-ready images, such as photos for a web site or banner ads. The Photoshop “Save for Web” tool is a simple and easy way to prepare your JPEG files for the web, helping with the trade-off between file size and image quality.

NOTE: For this tutorial, we are looking at saving JPEG images. The Save for Web tool is also built to save GIF, PNG, and BMP files.

What Makes a Graphic “Web-Ready?”

  • Resolution is 72 dpi
  • Color mode is RGB
  • Generally reduced in file size for faster loading web pages

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