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