explanation please....

[Caldwell]

hi there,

when I open up an image in PSE2 and then do some adjustments, my images look great! the problem is when i save them and re-open them they look different! they look a little "fuzzy" ?? also, i notice that when i save a file in PSE2 it saves it w/ a .psd extension. should I save it as a tiff file? I can make an image look pretty nice w/ some adjustment layers, but am a little unsure as how to "preserve" the work i've done.

regards,

Caldwell

[maderito]

PSD means "Photoshop document". It is the native format for Adobe Photoshop files and is readable by many Adobe applications and some non-Adobe apps.

TIFF files, on the other hand, are nearly universal (especially if you don't compress them) and readable by many image editing applications. (Layers can be saved in TIFF files.)

You can "preserve" your work in either format. If you work exclusively in Adobe Photoshop, the PSD format has some small advantages (e.g. perhaps faster opens, saves, previews, etc.).

There's no reason your files should look different upon re-opening unless you saved them as JPEGs with compression.