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Once you've taken the time to really clean up one of your old faded, and
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perhaps damaged images, chances are youre going to want to share that image with others.
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And one of the very common ways to share an image is online.
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When youre sharing an image online, of course, you need to prepare that photo in
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a particular way. Let's take a look at a work flow, for
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preparing an image for online sharing. You can see that I have a variety of
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layers in tact for this particular photo. One of the first things I want to make
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sure to do, once I feel that I am finished with the image, is to save the
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result with all of those layers intact. This image is already a layer document,
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in the TIFF file format. And so all I need to do to update any of
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my my changes is choose File > Save from the menu.
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Once I've saved that file and it's safely stored on my hard drive, I'll actually
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make a second copy of this image because the process of preparing an image for
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online sharing is rather destructive. For example, I'll going to be making the
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image quite a bit smaller potentially, and so I'll want to make sure I don't
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inadvertently damage my original. And so I want to work with a duplicate.
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To create that copy, I'll go to the Image menu and choose Duplicate from that menu.
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That will bring up a dialog, where I can specify a name for the duplicate image.
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The default is just to simply have the word copy appended to the existing file name.
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But you could also, for example, specify a size as part of the file name, if it
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was for printed output, for example. Or you can specify that this is an online image.
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And of course, you could just rename the file, altogether.
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The name you provide here will become the default file name when you actually save
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the photo. For now I'll just leave that name as it is.
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I also want to make sure that the duplicate merge only checkbox is turned on.
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The terminology here is not necessarily all that clear, what this checkbox
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actually means is that the copy I'm creating will be flattened.
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And I do want to flatten the copy that I'm making in large part because that way
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all of the layers will be merged into one layer so the sharpening that I'll apply
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will affect the entire image, not just the currently selected layer.
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So with that check box turned on, I'll go ahead and click the okay button, and a
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new copy of the image is created You can see that I have a tab for the duplicate
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image and I also have a tab for the original image.
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I'll go ahead and switch to that original image.
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You can see all of the layers are intact there, but for my copy, the layers have
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been flattened. I'll go ahead now, and close my original
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image just so that I don't accidentally switch back to that version of the image
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and apply some destructive changes to the original, to the master image, without
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realizing it. The next step is to resize the image to
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its final output size. In this case, for online sharing, I think
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I'd probably resize the image to a width of somewhere around 800 pixels.
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The actual size that the image will appear, of course, depends upon the end
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user's set up. If they're using a very large monitor,
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for example, the image might appear larger or smaller depending on the resolution.
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So there are a variety of factors that I can't really control, but generally
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speaking, for online display, 800 pixels is a pretty good size.
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And so I'll use that. To resize the image, I'll go to the Image
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menu and choose Image Size. That will bring up the Image Size dialog.
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I don't need to worry about the Document Size section because that's just for
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printing purposes. I only need to pay attention to the pixel dimensions.
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And here, I'll just set the width the longer of the two dimensions, in this
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case, to 800 pixels. Note, by the way, that I have the
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Constrain Proportions check box turned on.
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And that way, the height will adjust automatically.
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It won't be stretching or squishing the image.
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It'll keep it at the exact same aspect ratio as it started at, just simply
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resizing, based on the values that I enter.
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So as I enter a value for width. The height is adjusted automatically.
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I also have the Option set to actually resize the image.
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If this check box were turned off, I wouldn't even be able to change the pixel dimensions.
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And I have the algorithm set to Bi-cubic Automatic.
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In the case of reductions in image size. That means that the Bi-cubic Sharper
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option will be selected. But I can just leave the option set to
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Bi-cubic Automatic, so that I don't have to worry about making that change.
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I'll go ahead then and click the OK button and that image will be resized.
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Next, I'll convert the image to the SRGB color space.
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This helps to ensure accurate color even if the photo is viewed by a web browser
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for example that does not support color management.
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I'll go to the edit menu and down at the bottom of the Edit menu, I'll find
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Convert to Profile. And in the Convert to Profile dialog,
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I'll make sure that the destination color space is set to SRGB.
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You can see that that already is the source space for this particular photo,
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but had I been using a different color space I would want to make sure that it
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was SRGB. So, we're in good shape with this
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particular photo. I'll go ahead and click OK to close the
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Convert to Profile dialog. And then we can apply the final step in
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terms of preparing the image for online display, and that is to sharpen the image.
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I'll go ahead an choose Filter > Sharpen, and then Smart Sharpen from the menu.