List of output types
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Color photos or drawings with lots of shading to be: | True Color | ||
printed on a color printer. | (16.7 million | ||
displayed on a color monitor set to millions of colors. | colors) | ||
displayed on the Web and saved in the .jpg or .png file |
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Color photos or drawings with shading to be: | |||
printed to a color printer. | (optimized palette) | ||
sent via |
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used in any way that requires a small file size. |
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viewed on a computer screen. |
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Color photos or drawings with shading to be printed to a | Grayscale | ||
B&W printer. |
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B&W photos and drawings with shading to be used for any | Grayscale | ||
purpose. |
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B&W drawings without shading to be placed in another | Black & White | ||
program without resizing in the other program. | Bitmap | ||
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B&W drawings without shading to be resized in another | Black & White | ||
program. | Scalable | ||
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Any image to be saved in .gif file format and displayed on the | |||
Web. | palette) | ||
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Text that needs to be editable in a | Editable Text | ||
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Text that needs to be editable and graphics to be used. | Text and Image | ||
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Color drawings or logos without much shading and with a | Spot Color (16- | ||
concentrated area of a single color. The image is to be used | color) | ||
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.