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List of output types

For these uses

Use this output

type

 

 

 

Color photos or drawings with lots of shading to be:

True Color

printed on a color printer

displayed on a color monitor set to millions of colors

displayed on Web and saved in the JPEG or PNG file format

Color photos or drawings with shading to be:

Optimized Palette

printed to a color printer

sent via e-mail

used in any way that requires a small file size

viewed on a computer screen

Color photos or drawings with shading to be:

System Palette

printed to a color printer

displayed on a monitor set to 256 colors

displayed on Web and saved as a GIF file

Color photos or drawings with shading to be printed to a

Grayscale

B&W printer.

 

 

 

B&W photos and drawings with shading to be used for any

Grayscale

purpose.

 

 

 

B&W drawings without shading to be placed in another

Black & White

program without resizing in the other program.

Bitmap

 

 

Any image to be saved in GIF file format and displayed on

Web Palette

the Web.

 

 

 

Color drawings or logos without much shading and with a

Spot Color

concentrated area of a single color. The image is to be used

 

for any purpose.

 

 

 

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To reset output type

On the Output Type menu, click Automatically Set Type. The software chooses the best output type based on the image inside the selection area.