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I'm sure it goes without saying that after you're finished working on an image
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you want to save the final result. But what might not be so obvious is, that
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it's a really good idea to save along the way.
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As you're working on a photo, I recommend after each major step that you save the image.
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Let's take a look what that workflow might look like.
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And I'll just go ahead and draw a crop box here, and let's assume that this a
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good crop. I'll turn off the delete cropped pixels
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check box and apply that crop so that it is applied in a non-destructive way, and
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then I'll choose File, followed by Save from the menu.
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And after each major step working on my image I'll want to choose this command,
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but of course I don't need to come to the File menu and choose Save.
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You'll notice that to the right of the save command there is an indication of
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the keyboard shortcut that would be Cmd+S on Macintosh or Ctrl+S on Windows.
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And so as I perform each additional step I can simply press Ctrl+S on Windows or
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Cmd+S on Macintosh. So for example I'll add an image clean up
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layer here. I'll rename that layer cleanup, and I'll
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just apply some quick and basic cleanup work to the image, not trying to actually
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perfect the image, but just demonstrating that I'm performing some work on this layer.
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And once I feel that I've cleaned up the image, obviously I've not finished just
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yet with this photo. In fact, there's a lot of work to be done
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with this particular image. But let's just assume that I am finished
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with the image cleanup work for this photo, I would then press Ctrl+S on
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Windows or Cmd+S on Macintosh to save the result.
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And if I add an adjustment layer, for example I'll go ahead and add a curves
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adjustment in order to enhance contrast just a little bit for the photo.
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And once I feel that that adjustment has been applied and I'm happy with the
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result, I will once again press Ctrl+S or Cmd+S in order to save the updated image.
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And by doing that, along the way, each of the layers will be saved, and all the
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work that I've done will be saved. So that if, for example, my computer were
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to crash or something else were to go wrong I can always go back and open that
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image knowing that all the work I've conducted has been saved.
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It's also especially helpful in the context of a layer based workflow.
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Since we don't have history after we've closed an image.
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In other words, I can't just undo a step after I've closed the image, and reopened it.
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And so, by having these layers and having saved all of my work along the way, I'll
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make sure that I'm not going to lose any of my work and that I'll have the
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flexibility of being able to refine my adjustments later.