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Working to restore an old photo can obviously involve quite a bit of time and
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effort, but fortunately it tends to be a labor of love.
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But when that process is finished you want to make sure that all of your work
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is preserved and I highly recommend preserving literally all of the work
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you've done. In other words, if you've taken a
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non-destructive approach, creating a variety of layers in order to apply that
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cleanup effect to improve the appearance of the photo, you should retain those
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layers so that you can come back later and fine-tune anything that you feel is
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less than perfect. Naturally you should be saving your work
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as you go. But you definitely want to make sure that
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the final result is saved with all layers intact.
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If you're working with a non-layered version of the image, in a file format
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that does not support layers, the first time you save an image, when you've added
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some layers, you'll get the save as dialog by default.
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If the original is in a format that supports layers such as TIFF then you
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won't get that save as dialog. But regardless, if you want to be certain
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that you have a version of the image with all layers intact you can use the save as command.
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I'll go ahead and choose File > Save As from the menu in order to bring up the
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save as dialog. I can then specify which folder I'd like
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to save the image in, navigating to a different folder as needed, or simply
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sticking with the existing folder if I want to save the finished image in the
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same location as the original for example.
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I can then also specify a name for the image.
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I'll just go ahead and add final to the end of the name of the file here, in this
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case, to distinguish the final version from the original.
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I'll make sure that I've specified a file format that supports layers and in the
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context of Photoshop, that means saving either as a Photoshop document or as a
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TIFF image. In this case, I've saved as a TIFF image.
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I'll go ahead and keep that option selected, and I'll make sure that the
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layers checkbox is turned on, so that all layers will be retained as part of my
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TIFF image. I'm also going to turn on the embed color
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profile option, so whichever color profile is embedded, either by the
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scanner or based on my working space in Photoshop, will be retained.
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And that will help ensure that when the image is opened later the colors will
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appear accurate. I'll go ahead then and click the save
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button, and because I chose to save as a TIFF image, the TIFF options dialog will appear.
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I'll want to make sure that under layer compression, I choose RLE.
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I don't want to discard layers, because that would result in a flattened version
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of the image, and I want to retain all of my layers so that I can come back to them
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later as needed. But I do want to use image compression.
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And so I'll choose the LZW option. This is a lossless compression option,
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which means it will reduce the file size without causing any loss of detail or
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information within the image. The pixel order and byte order options
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you really don't have to worry about, either setting is perfectly fine.
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It doesn't matter if you are on a Windows based computer or Macintosh for example.
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In all cases, you'll be able to open this image later on either platform.
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So, with those options set, I'll go ahead and click OK.
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And now, this image is saved with all of those layers intact.
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I now have all of the information I need so that I can come back later and refine
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any of my adjustments or corrections and, of course, produce output from this
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master image.