lwerber 0 Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Is it necessary to use the "save for web and devices" function in photoshop when saving out images for the web? I'm making a portfolio website and when I save out the images of my work using "save for web and devices" the colors appear dull. When I just save them out the regular way ("save as..."), the colors appear correct in my browser, and in some cases the file size is smaller than the ones that were saves out with "save for web and devices". Is this function meant to be used for saving out photographs for the web? Thank you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eduard 37 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Is it necessary to use the "save for web and devices" function in photoshop when saving out images for the web? I'm making a portfolio website and when I save out the images of my work using "save for web and devices" the colors appear dull. When I just save them out the regular way ("save as..."), the colors appear correct in my browser, and in some cases the file size is smaller than the ones that were saves out with "save for web and devices". Is this function meant to be used for saving out photographs for the web? Thank you! I read your thread just now!Yes, it certainly is necessary! Instead of a psd file, you´ ll have a PNG or GIF file! Those files can be read by every browser! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thescientist 231 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 (edited) save as will still allow you to save a PNG, JPG, etc. Edited August 16, 2012 by thescientist Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eduard 37 Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 save as will still allow you to save a PNG, JPG, etc. Yes, you´re right! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SDGSteve 0 Posted November 19, 2012 Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 the confusing advice thread! Iwerber; saving for web just compresses the image and puts it into a web safe format, it's a shortcut basically, you don't have to use it. What you have to do is make sure your image is saved as a JPG, GIF or PNG and try to make the file size as small as possible for example by setting JPG image quality when you save it, experiment with a few quality settings to see what looks good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marry 0 Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 If you want to place some image in your website, lets say an icon. You can take a snapshot and then put the icon on the photoshop and see how it looks, what size our required. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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