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Introduction
Definitions of Terms
File Formats
Image Production
Image Size
Best Practices
Viewing File Info
Editing Images
File Management
Additional Resources
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Viewing File Info
There are various ways to view the file types and sizes of your image files; the most common are demonstrated in the three bulleted examples below.
- Right click on your file in Windows Explorer or Mac OSX Finder. Choose "Properties" or "Get Info" (Figure 4), respectively, to see the file type or "Kind," file size, and other information (Figure 5).

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- In the Windows Explorer or Mac OSX Finder, choose to view a list of your files with details, by clicking View>> Details or the button
, respectively.This will display your detailed file information in columns. In Mac OSX, these are labeled file Name, Date Modified, file Size, and file Kind (Figure 6).
- While working in a photo editor, such as Adobe Photoshop, you can see the file type and size information in either the bottom border of the application window (Windows) or the top and bottom borders of the document window (Mac OS) (Figure 7).
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