In this video, we're gonna look at how to bring in images. Now, there's many ways of bringing in  images from different programs. The easiest ways is to go to file  and you've got these two placed embedded or place linked. Now we're gonna use place embedded. It's definitely a better way of working. When you are new to web design or new to designing  and Photoshop, um, linked files can be quite handy.

If your file size is getting really high, they don't tend  to get super high when you're dealing with web design  because the resolution's not huge  and there's not a lot of detail  to some of the effects that you're doing. Um, but let's just have a quick look at the difference. If I embed it, it means that I'm gonna bring in my, um,  so go to your Photoshop, uh, Photoshop web exercise files. I'm gonna open up this one called Image Books. I'm gonna place them in. Okay, he comes in,  you get to resize them.

I'm gonna leave him exactly how he came in and hit return. Now you'll see him in my layers panel here. He's called Image Books. What's happened though, is  that it's been kind of put inside this document  and we'll be carried around. If I send somebody my Photoshop document,  it's gonna come along for the right. Now, if I do it the other way, okay, if I go  to place linked, what will happen is  the image will come in, it'll look the same.

I hit enter. Okay, I've got two images the same. You'll see the icon changes. This one's got a little linking icon. It just means that if I now send this say to my designer  or my web developer to build,  they're not gonna have the images  unless I send them separately. Okay?

I'm gonna need that. Uh, image books jpeg to send along,  whereas the embedded one gets stuck in the file  and it's a little bit easier to share. The other problem you need to watch out for,  for linked ones like this is if I go to my desktop now  and I go and delete image books, can you see in here? There's a little question mark. It means that, Hey, I'm freaking out  because I've lost that image in here. And we'll come up with errors saying I can't find it.

Dunno where it is. So it is bead easier at  the beginning to use embedded. The reason you'd use Linked Images is that if you're using  that same image over  and over again, lots of files, you don't really want  to have lots of copies of it everywhere,  taking up lots of file size. It also can be, we are working on a really complex document  with lots of embedded images. It can start running really slow if you've got a terrible  old laptop that you're using,  that's something you might want to consider. For the moment though, I'm going to delete this layer here  and leave the one that was embedded.