HOW TO SAVE IN PHOTOSHOP LAYERS...

This Blog is exclusively for beginners.
I have given a subtitle "Beginners' Beginner"
(for among the beginners on Photoshop to the very first timer beginner) 
And I've given the best for Beginners to understand fully each movements on one subject meter. Thus I have fulfilled the shortcomings I faced while I was a novice.

BEFORE YOU TOUCH  HOW TO SAVE, 
PLEASE GO TO  MY FIRST GRAPHIC



SAVE...
HOW TO SAVE...
SAVE LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP...
SAVE  VS SAVE AS
HOW TO SAVE AS IN PHOTOSHOP...
WHAT IS SAVE?
WHAT IS SAVE AS?

To Save Just Click the Save button to save your image or any graphics you have done in the Document Photoshop. But...


What happens to that data when you click Save?



'Save'  in general (In Computers) you move or copy your temporary data to a more permanent area in your computer or to a storage medium.

When you edit a File in Photoshop document (word-processor/ applications programs) that particular program ( in our case The Photoshop)  copies the entire file, or portions of the file, into an area of main memory called a buffer . 

Any changes you make to the file are made to the copy in the buffer not to the real file on the disk. 

The buffer is temporary -- as soon as you exit the program or turn off the computer, the buffer disappears, so do the copied data. 

Before  Layers and data disappear you must do the needful to automatically or manually to store those data in appropriate place in your computer. 

To record your modifications to the file on the disk, you must save the file. 

On you do this, the program copies the contents of the buffer back to the file on the disk, replacing the previous version of the file.

Because computers can break down or for some-or-the-other reasons if the power breaks down  at any moment, it is a good idea to save your files periodically. Otherwise, you will lose all the work you have done during an editing session. 

Many applications automatically save files at regular intervals. 
*1 But prior to CS 6 there's no such automatic saving facilities in Photoshop. 

But in Photoshop not like in other programs  the History Panel plays a vital roll: When you carry out a series of actions in Photoshop, you may want to undo them. Here the history panel enable you to save all the actions that carried out before you turn off your program..

The history is in the temporary file , and that file hangs around until you close the program.

You no longer have to wait for the progress bar to creep across your screen when saving large files because Photoshop CS6’s  Background Save feature can save files in the background while you keep working on other projects.


*1 AUTO SAVE NEW FEATURE IN PHOTOSHOP CS 6

Auto Save, another new feature of Photoshop Cs6,  can help recover your file if your computer crashes before you've had a chance to save. To select the time interval for automatically saving your files, select Preferences > File Handling and choose from every  5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes. These features are on by default.

  

Before you learn How to save in Photoshop do some simple graphics in Photoshop,  please try the following graphics for Beginners.

HOW TO MAKE A PHOTOSHOP BANNER

Create a banner   Step by step tutorial...




HOW TO SAVE IN PHOTOSHOP
Why to save?

HOW TO MERGE LAYERS PHOTOSHOP

GRAPHICS FOR BEGINNERS' BEGINNER 

This Tutorial is exclusively for beginners.
I have given a subtitle "Beginners' Beginner"
(for among the beginners on Photoshop to the very first timer beginner) 
And I've given the best for Beginners to understand fully each movements on one subject meter. Thus I have fulfilled the shortcomings I faced while I was a novice.

HOW TO MERGE LAYERS… 
Sometimes, we feel the need to combine or merge different layers together...

Before YOU learn merging layers go to :PHOTOSHOP GRAPHIC DESIGNING FOR BEGINNERS step by step tutorials.

MY FIRST GRAPHIC- FOR BEGINNER
 HOW TO DO A PHOTOSHOP BANNER...
  HOW TO DO A WEB BANNER
  HOW TO DO AN Ad BANNER


WHY MERGE LAYERS? 
WHAT MERGE LAYERS MEAN IN PHOTOSHOP? 

Merging layers a very very simple process in Photoshop...

Merging layers helpful when you no longer need every layer to be independent.

Layers in Photoshop allow you to work on one element of an image without disturbing the others, so they are an indispensable tool.

We consistently use layers while working in Photoshop.

Sometimes, we feel the need to combine or merge different layers together - either to work on the merged image, or to flatten all layers to form a single layer.

Let’s say we are done working with layers and we want to  create a composite and want to consolidate it to one layer instead of having many separate layers.  This can be simply called “Merge”

To keep this MERGER-thing in your mind (until we acquaintance with) just think of a commercial Merger, (usually with a mutual decision between two firms, two companies become one). Here in Photoshop its combining some finished layers in to one layer,

To make  all the changes we made into that layer. (To clear yourself and to understand well  go further down in this page) 

How to Merge

The Merge Layers command is available by doing one of the following, after *highlighting the layers you want merged:
      

§  Right click on one of the layers and select Merge Layers

§  Go to the ‘Layers’ menu and select Merge Layers

§  The keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd + E (this is actually the same shortcut as Merge Down)
                   *highlight= Click on one layer(other layers u prefer to highlight)  Ctrl+click

Caution: once layers are merged, there is no going back!! the layers are inseparably connected.

The following is an sample a Banner - Taken as an example: 

This banner contains 8 stacks of separate layers independently laying  down for a facial makeup. 

A complected banner after Merged and Flatten                          

  

See :  Fig-2 to Fig-10
(how layers are separately layered before - Merge)

  

   Fig-1

The Background Black Layer                             Fig-2

     A Grident Layer Merged with background.       Fig. 3

    Boarder Layer                                                   Fig-4

    Typed Text Layer                                                        Fig-5

         Text (Effects)                                             Fig 6                                

      Text Effect                                                             Fig-7

Fig 6+Fig 7 Highlighted  Before Merged

Fig-8

*highlight= Click on one layer(of the layers u prefer to highlight)  Ctrl+click

 After, to be Merged Layers Highlighted go to > Layer Menu > Merge Layer (to Combine the layers which  you decide make into one layer.)
    Fig-9

  Right click on one of the layers and select Merge Layers

§  Go to the ‘Layers’ menu and select Merge Layers

§  The keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd + E (this is actually the same shortcut as Merge Down)

Now both of the Layers are Merged in the Fig-10 Image

Fig-10

Fig 11

This is a very simple process but some times for beginners its annoying, just to make things clear I have done in details, This tutorial is solely done for Beginners Developing Graphic Designers in mind.  


Now  Finished ? not yet

Your Project Layers are layered out  Independently.
This way how to go further....

Now you got  two important things to do.
Saving the Project
Flatten Layers
Please Note - I have give first Saving then Flatten
This is again a simple process but you need some elaboration.
Since we are Beginners DEVELOPING GRAPHIC DESIGNERS.

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