Open files – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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USING PHOTOSHOP CS4
Opening and importing images
Last updated 1/10/2010
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Set the Resolution, Color Mode, and bit depth.
If you’ve copied a selection to the clipboard, the image dimensions and resolution are automatically based on that
image data.
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Select a canvas color option:
White
Fills the background layer with white, the default background color.
Background Color
Fills the background layer with the current background color.
Transparent
Makes the first layer transparent, with no color values. The resulting document has a single, transparent
layer as its contents.
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(Optional) If necessary, click the Advanced button to display more options.
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(Optional) Under Advanced, choose a color profile, or choose Don’t Color Manage This Document. For Pixel
Aspect Ratio, choose Square unless you’re using the image for video. In that case, choose another option to use non-
square pixels.
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When you finish, you can save the settings as a preset by clicking Save Preset, or you can click
OK to open the new file.
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Open files
You can open files using the Open command and Open Recent command. You can also open files into Photoshop
from Adobe Bridge or Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™.
When opening certain files, such as camera raw and PDF, you specify settings and options in a dialog box before the
files completely open in Photoshop.
In addition to still images, Photoshop® CS4 Extended users can open and edit 3D files, video and image sequence files.
For more information, see “
Importing video files and image sequences (Photoshop Extended)
Note: Photoshop uses plug-in modules to open and import many file formats. If a file format does not appear in the Open
dialog box or in the File > Import submenu, you may need to install the format’s plug-in module.
Sometimes Photoshop may not be able to determine the correct format for a file. This can happen, for example,
because the file has been transferred between two operating systems. Sometimes a transfer between Mac
OS and
Windows can cause the file format to be mislabeled. In
such cases, you must specify the correct format in which to
open the file.
You can retain (where possible) layers, masks, transparency, compound shapes, slices, image maps, and editable type
when bringing your Illustrator art into Photoshop. In Illustrator, export the art in the Photoshop (PSD) file format. If
your Illustrator art contains elements that Photoshop doesn’t support, the appearance of the artwork is preserved, but the
layers are merged and the artwork is rasterized.
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