Hey guys welcome and welcome back thanks so much for joining me Jessica McGovern International
multi-award-winning portrait photographer i'm here today to talk to you about another Five Minute
Friday so shall we talk about what that is why not so today i'm going to be putting a video out for
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from anywhere because if you're here you just want to help your photography and i'm here for that and
i'm here to help and that's what we do so today we're actually answering a request that frequently
pops up in the request box and always tends to come up on online editing one-to-ones that we do
and what that question relates to is exporting issues so how do you export an
image from Photoshop if it's in a different colour profile in a way that's not going to
compress it horrendously cause banding, cause image degradation and compression issues how do
you do that and there are more than a million ways to skin a cat in Photoshop's case which
is not even a real saying but it kind of is and i merged into one and i'm okay with that but today
i'm going to show you exactly what i do to save out my images from Photoshop
okay so let's get that timer started five minutes on the clock let's go
okay so you're joining me with this picture of Viva which we already looked at the other week
so if you've not seen that video it's about how do you remove the halter from this shot
essentially because there's a halter on a line the horse obviously isn't loose and we did that
in a different video so today what we're going to do is we're going to export this edited image
in a way that's not going to cause any issues no colour issues no colour changing issues
nothing like that now the one exception to the colour changing issue situation
is if you use really really really really really bright studio backgrounds that's going to be your
only glitch point where you're probably going to see a shift between Adobe RGB ProPhoto RGB
and sRGB when you export out if you follow the method i'm going to go through today
but for general situations it's only happened to me probably once or twice in my whole history of
being a photographer which is hundreds of thousands of images if not more than that
and multiple awards it's only ever happened to me twice that i've had a noticeable shift
with my colours when i follow this exporting process so it's not going to be the catch-all
for everything i can't say it's 100% foolproof but it's probably 99.9999%
safe okay so we're here in the image i'm finished but important point tonight down
here in the bottom corner you can see that the images in Adobe RGB 1998 16 bit okay so those are
related the the Adobe RGB part is a colour profile and the 16 bit is a bit depth most
situations that you will encounter as a photographer need sRGB okay most printers
use sRGB and the whole internet works in sRGB so if you're exporting an image and
it doesn't have a profile attached to it which is one common mistake which we'll go through
or if you're exporting in a colour profile and embedding it and it's Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB
and then you upload it online and the colours look real weird and it's got a bit green and flat and
gross that's because you're in the wrong colour profile so stop what you're doing let's get this
right from start to finish now very quick point is that you can set all of what i'm about to do
up as an action which is already available for the MTogs it has been for a while so that's in
your TPS court action pack for the Premium members i will link down to the blog post that has those
actions in it below because it's not this one but you do have those available that is TPS jpeg prep
and then the 2000 pixel longest side social resize so either or will get you to the same
result what we need to do though is we've got our layers right most of the time you're going to
have layers available you will have layers in the image because you've been working in Photoshop so
it doesn't matter how many layers you have you're probably going to have layers and the first thing
that you need to do when you're happy and you're finished with your edit and you've saved it out if
you want to with all of its layers intact is you need to flatten the heck out of this picture right
it needs to be flat as a dodo with a background layer that's locked so we're going to right click
on one of the layers and we're going to go right the way down here to flatten image that's going to
give us a background layer with the padlock on so we've done step one check then what we need to do
is assess our bit depth and our colour profile situation i always always always always always
do bit depth first because sRGB does not play nicely with 16 bit so you might as well switch
it straight away up front into 8-bit where it's nice and safe and then turn it into sRGB
that will be a better process but you need to make sure you flattened it because otherwise you'll
get banding in your layers so we go up into the image section we go into mode and we go to 8 bits
which switches the image over into an 8-bit system okay so there's now half the amount of bit depth
in the image now what we need to do is convert this to the sRGB colour profile
super easy but often done wrong so we go into edits okay top menu and then we go down to
convert to profile please note that there is an assigned profile immediately above do not click
that x oops wrong one don't click assign profile it is wrong it is not going to fix the situation
it will make it worse convert to profile is where we need to be then in the convert to profile
window we want to make sure that the destination space is set up as sRGB with all of the things
dot 2.1 then you want to set your bottom bits down here really however you want if you're seeing a
noticeable colour shift at this point with the preview button turned on then have a play with
these options down here however for 99.9999% of all cases this is my settings i use the Adobe
engine i have relative colour metric i use black point compensation and no dither and then i click
okay and that now is an sRGB 8-bit file aka a jpeg right so there's a jpeg if you want to you can go
ahead and check your image size and if needed change the resolution to 300 pixels per inch
this is a high-res jpeg it can be saved out now as a high-res jpeg okay what about for social
media Jess what about if i want to put it on my IG what about if i want to put it on facebook
what about what whatever the heck right if you want to put it on your website i don't care
what you want to do with it that's fine but this is going to be humongous depending on how much
you've cropped it hopefully not a lot if you've done your composition correctly there's a video
on shooting with correct composition i'll link that above if you want to put on your socials
we're going to image we're going to image size we go into the resolution and we go ahead and change
that to 72 and then we change the width to 2000 because 2000 pixels works best for most situations
so we have this set up we click ok and that my friends is now your social media sized file so
you can bang a watermark on it we've got a video on how to do that i will link that above because
you know i'm here to help and then you save that one out as you would normally but how would you
save these out because we've missed a step here in in essence because we've not embedded anything
easy peasy with either your high res or this version we go ahead and we do file we do save
as in save as you find your folder title it as you want to i'm just going to call it Viva
social and then in the format we change that to a jpeg if you don't have jpeg there
your bit depth is probably wrong and you probably haven't flattened your layers so you've got these
things telling you incorrect then you need to make sure that you've got your embed colour profile
checked it must be ticked and then click save then in this section for social media you want to be on
progressive and wiggle this down to get below a thousand or below one depending on whichever
you can see this is fine if you want a high-res jpeg just pop it in baseline and switch it to the
maximum quality those are your two alterations for the export setting so social progressive
underneath one high-res baseline all the way up to 12 on the quality there okay so those are you
two shifts no other change needs to happen that image is now perfectly colour profiled
bit depth saved out with an embedded profile in it at the right resolution for all of your needs
that's it hopefully that was helpful for you guys if it was please do let me know it's just
the way that i do it everybody has their own kind of way of doing it i prefer doing it like this and
using the export as functions because i feel like the mess was a little bit too much for my liking
so i like to have full control over all of these steps you can do pretty much the exact same thing
over in Lightroom when you're in your exports in Lightroom classic we do have an online course for
Lightroom classic for beginners which runs through everything everything you might need in Lightroom
including your exporting so that is available if required that's the video for today any questions
drop them down in the comments i'll see you guys soon i'll see you next week for another video ciao