Adobe Creative Suite 2 - How to Save the File

Now that we have got everything cropped, scaled, color adjusted and set ready to bring into InDesign, let's go ahead and save this file. Let's go to the File menu, choose Save As, so we don't accidentally replace the original real file, and you should notice that we are still using the Adobe Dialog that we activated inside of InDesign, and that thing gives us access on the left hand side here to our Project Files folder, the same one we dragged across in Bridge is now visible here inside Photoshop, and indeed, all the CS2 applications.

So here is the Project Files, let's open this up, and go down this time into the Photoshop Files folder, this is where we will save the image. Now we are going to make sure it is saved as a PSD, so if you see anything else in there such as JPEG or TIF which is all dependent on how you last saved an image in Photoshop, make sure we save it as a native file. Now lot of people don't understand why we would do that when EPS, TIF, JPEG and DCS are usually the formats people use to bring images into a Desktop Publishing program, and then print them out. Well, the way that InDesign works is very different, and gives us access to many more creative options which we are going to see in just a second. If we leave something as a native file, we can go back in and make changes to it very easily and see them up dated inside of InDesign. So trust me on this one.

Now once you have specified Photoshop, go ahead and save that, and when it's done, make sure you just leave this image open for a second. We are going to come back to it in a little while.


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