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Saving and exporting Artboards - Photoshop Tutorial

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Saving and exporting Artboards

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- [Announcer] When it comes to exporting specific layers or entire art boards, Photoshop has several different options to meet your different needs. I'm going to select all three of the art boards, and if I want to export them as JPEG files, I can choose file and then export, and then export as. On the left side, we can see each one of the individual files that will be created. I'll select them all, choose JPEG as my format and set the quality to seven. Now, if I needed to resize these, I could go ahead and change the width height, or in this case, I'll change the scale to 50%. I'll include my copyright and contact information, convert them to SRGB and embed the color profile. When I choose export, we can export them to the art boards folder, and when we return to bridge, we can see those three exported files. All right, let's return to Photoshop. Now, what if I need to save the art boards in a format that isn't offered within export as, such as a layered Photoshop file? Well then I can select all of the art boards, choose file and export, and this time I would choose art board to files, because under art board to files, I have additional file types including PSD and TIF files, which would both retain all of the layers. Okay, I'll hit cancel for now. And what if I needed to distribute these art boards to someone who doesn't have Photoshop? Well, then we could choose file and export, and I could export them to PDF. I can choose whether I want it to be a single, multi-page document or if I want to create a document per art board. Alright, I'll cancel out of there too. And if I wanted to just export elements instead of entire art boards, I could do that by selecting the elements. Let's say I want to export all three of the photographs as well as the logo. Then I could choose the layer menu and then export as, I'll select all three of the photographs and export them as JPEGs and then I'll select the logo and then export it as PNG. If I needed additional versions at different sizes, we can always click on the plus icon and then choose from the different size options. For now, I'll go ahead and choose export, we can select that same folder, and when I return to bridge, we can see here are the three JPEG files of the photographs, and here's the PNG of the logo. And there you have it, different ways to export either portions of an art board or multiple art boards to files in Photoshop.

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