Can someone help me understand these kit properties?

momtutu

momtutu

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I bought several template kits this morning (I'm still learning the ropes of digi-scrapping slowly but surely). It looked like there were two downloads per kit. One was a PSD download and the other was a PNG. Now, within each download, there was a full size jpg folder with the templates in it, a layered png (or psd depending on which download it was) and one other folder for small previews.

I use photoshop elements to scrap from. Do I need all of these folders? Both the PNG and the PSD? It would seem I only need the PSD. Also, what do I need the full sz jpg and the small previews for?

Education please???

Thanks!
 
If you have windows and don't want the png, I'd just keep the "folder" jpg and the PSD you can delete the rest.
 
Oh, and I just found another folder for a template. It gave me a psd folder and a tiff folder. Do I need the tiff?
 
I like the .psd better because it loads so much faster, but .tiff is suppose to be higher quality.

Like Meg said, if you use pse, there's no reason to keep the .png form.
 
Hey, Kelli! Pretty sure that it would be my files that come in PNG or PSD format. The PNG ones are for DIP users, but if you use Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or PaintShop Pro, the PSD ones are the ones you need...you don't even need to download the PNG files. HTH!

ETA: The full-size JPG are for paper scrappers and those that don't use any of the above programs but want to use them as a sketch and not a layered template. You don't need to keep those ones either. The "small previews" folder in there is because Windows doesn't show PSD files so if you want to know what the templates look like without opening each one, you can see it in that folder and then open the corresponding template in the "layered PSD" folder.

ETA Again, lol: My more recent templates only have the layered PSD and small preview folders, I no longer do the PNG format, and I the full-sized JPG files were difficult to do once I started using colors in my templates (it made selecting the colors harder than when it was greyscale).
 
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joelsgirl said:
I like the .psd better because it loads so much faster, but .tiff is suppose to be higher quality.

Like Meg said, if you use pse, there's no reason to keep the .png form.
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PSD and TIFF are both the same quality (neither format is "lossy" so they are very high quality), but TIFF, if saved correctly, are smaller file formats and should load faster. I personally don't use this format because the 3 major programs can use PSD files, while only PSCS+ and PSE3+ can open layered TIFF files. So that one is personal choice, all the way. :)
 
Ok, that makes so much more sense now. Thanks so much! I'm trying to keep everything organized as I download and it was getting confusing to see the same things in different formats. I just couldn't tell why I needed them all. I'll start deleting!
 
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