Custom Photoshop Preferences (two)
Second, document processing
This page is all about file processing. The dialog box handles how to create image thumbnails, how to save TIFF files and PSD files (this is a very important choice in Photoshop 7.0) and how you want to work.
2.1 Image preview
Photoshop's image preview feature is significantly different under both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The biggest difference is that the Mac supports more image previews, and by default it does not use file extensions to indicate file types or programs that can be used to open the file. An image preview is a miniature image of 256 color depths of a real image contained in a file. Such miniature images of image files are sometimes referred to as "thumbnails".
It is recommended that you use the image preview drop-down menu's default settings to always store. The other two options in the drop-down menu are always asked when not storing and storing. The literal meaning of these settings is the meaning of the settings themselves. Saving image previews is especially useful for image files saved in PSD file format in Photoshop. The PSD file saved at the same time as the preview image will be displayed in the desktop and folder as a thumbnail of the file (when the view mode of the computer system is a large icon). In Photoshop's Open dialog, if you select a thumbnail from the View menu, PSD, TIF, GIF, PNG, and JPG files will be displayed as thumbnails, which makes it easy to find the file you want to open.
"Open dialog" is not the only place where you can see the thumbnails. Photoshop 7 comes with a file browser that opens in the "Window>>File Browser (Alt+W>>I)", so you can also see an image preview from the browser window. These features all indicate that it is important to save the image along with the thumbnails. For the entire saved image, the thumbnail only increases the image file size by about 2 KB. Now you can buy a 120GB hard drive in 700 blocks, and the increase in the size of the image file is negligible.
Note: Not every new feature in Photoshop 7 is worthy of praise. For users without image classification software, the new feature of the file browser is certainly very popular. But who would have no image viewing classification software? Adobe is really well thought out for users, but other independent software is equally comprehensive. The Acdsee feature is very powerful, and the viewing software that comes with Windows XP is also very easy to use. Adding a file browser that has nothing to do with image editing in an already very large application, taking up valuable resources, is not a good idea!
2.2 File Extension
The next option on the second page of the Preferences dialog is the file extension where you can choose the case of the file extension. The default setting is to use lowercase. If there is no special requirement to use the file name in uppercase, it is recommended to keep the selection of the system, that is, the "use lowercase" option. How many people would like to see the file extensions listed on a long list of files all in uppercase?
2.3 File Compatibility
In the file compatibility selection, you should select the check box for the question option before saving the layered TIFF file. Adobe is bound to the designers who edit still images. They want the images in TIFF format to remain the same, so that Photoshop users working on both Windows and Macintosh can access images in this format. Also, those who don't use Photoshop often can watch TIFF images. But the digital video industry has been fighting for TIFF versions that include layers because digital video editing is everywhere.
For the user, you must be careful not to neglect to save the layered image in TIFF format.
Here's an option that I find very interesting: "Always maximize Photoshop PSD file compatibility." Each new version of Photoshop brings a host of new features. But all of the new features have the unfortunate effect that previous versions of Photoshop and other applications that can import Photoshop files don't know about these new features. In this way, in the best case, the software will ignore what they can't recognize (text layers, effect layers, etc.). In the worst case, these software may not be able to open new versions of Photoshop files at all. Backward compatibility issues have always been an old problem with Photoshop format files. Although Adobe now enhances the compatibility of TIFF and PDF files, you still need to pay attention to backward compatibility issues when you save files in these formats.
Therefore, the "maximize backward compatibility" option becomes the default setting for the system. When selected, when the user saves images in TIFF, PDF, and PSD format, the system additionally saves some information to generate a flat version of the file. This way, those who don't know the latest version of Photoshop can open these files. However, the extra information saved together when saving the image file will significantly increase the size of the file.
I suggest you mention it and decide to go down. The advice here is that if your company has various licenses for Photoshop and all Photoshop versions, then backwards compatibility should be used. However, for a small user base that only uses Photoshop 7, why increase the file size unnecessarily? Let the extra storage space be given to MP3!
2.4 Enabling Workgroup Features When Opening Controllable Documents
Enabling workgroup functionality is a very fashionable option. You can work with others to do a task through the office LAN or through the Internet. However, first you need to understand some things to consider about this setup. There are two options under "Open controllable documents":
• Check from the server: It has three choices: ask, always and never.
Always, that is, asking if you enable the workgroup feature, that is, always open its workgroup function, never just open the workgroup function, which is a very simple decision, depending on your work environment. Obviously, users who don't need the workgroup function of course choose "never".
• Update from server: If there are multiple users working together on a task, you should select "Always" from the drop down menu. Who would want to update the file only by himself, and the other person who also uses the file does not update the file? It is necessary to keep the group documents "advanced with the times".
2.5 Recent file list contains
Whether it's working on a Macintosh platform or working on a Windows system, the recent file list is included. This setting is very helpful for all Photoshop users. In the past, most Windows applications included this feature, and now, not only do the two operating platforms offer the option "Recently Open File" under the File menu, you can also set the number of files you want to reopen. . Many of the programs in my computer are limited to returning to the four most recently used files. However, Photoshop 7 allows you to set up to 30 recently used files!
Even if you only use the default values (10 recently used files) you will never lose files on your hard drive. This new feature does not take up extra memory space.
File Handling Preferences dialog on Macintosh systems
For Macintosh systems, there are slightly different options on the file handling page of the Preferences dialog, which we will cover briefly.
As with the preset settings in Windows, there are three options for image preview in Macintosh: interrogation, always and never. But there is also a secondary option: you want to save as an icon, a Macintosh thumbnail, a Windows thumbnail, or a full size.
• Icon Displays the picture in a desktop or folder window at 32 * 32 pixels. This is a very reasonable choice and it does not increase the size of the saved file.
• Full size Oye! A full size image preview! Isn't it superfluous? of course not. The full size mentioned here means that some applications (such as Quark) can place and link a full-screen image preview at a resolution of 72 pixels per inch. The size of the original image may not change, but its resolution can reach 266 pixels per inch. This option does increase the size of the file, but when the image link is 72 pixels per inch for preview display, you can work faster in Quark.
• Macintosh thumbnail or Windows thumbnail (shown in the section labeled 4 in Figure 4) This is the image you see in the preview box. It is larger than the icon thumbnail, but smaller than Winnebago. Check this option if you want the file to be slightly larger than the size when you selected the Icon option, and you want to be able to easily preview the image before the manned image file. When you choose a Macintosh or (you can choose both) Windows thumbnails, you must consider the end-use environment of the file. If you are a Photoshop user working on the Macintosh and want to use the finished image for Windows, then make a preview selection here.
Supplemental file extension
There are three choices in the Supplemental File Extensions option: Never, Ask, and Always. If you are designing a graphic for a web application, the browser must have an extension. Many web servers use Unix as the operating system. GIF, JPEG and HTML files must use *.gif, *.jpg and *.htm as file extensions respectively, so that the server can successfully pass the correct image type. Go to the visitor's browser. Even if you are doing web application work, but in a multi-operating platform company, you should also use the file extension, because if you don't know the file type, it is difficult for Windows users to share the work. The rest of the preset options are exactly the same as in Windows, so there is no need to introduce the rest of the Macintosh Preferences dialog. Click Next to see the Display & Cursor page of the Preferences dialog.