photoshop question???

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okay, so over spring break i brought home a bunch of photos i needed to edit for my journalism class. i have photoshop on my personal pc at home, however the computers we work on at school are all macs.
so ive been editing the photos, and when i save them as tiff's like im supposed to, it has a selection to save the 'byte order' as ibm pc or macintosh.
since i will primarily be using the photos on macs should i select macintosh? ?
i don't understand?!
thanks:)
the company that is publishing the work with the photos in it does not accept psd's, only jpeg's or tiff's, and tiff's work the best for this purpose.
 
Probably you should save as macintosh. It's like a Microsoft Office doc, which you save on a 2007 version to read on a 2003 version. You'll need the format that the mac reads.

Hugs!
 
If you save them in Photoshop's native format (PSD) you'll be able to open them on either platform without difficulty.

The "byte order" isn't really relevant anymore, since Macs and PCs use similar CPUs now. Previously they had different CPUs and read things in different orders.

You should be able to open TIFFs on either platform, despite checking either "Mac" or "PC."

If the printer asks for them to be saved for "Mac compatibility" then it's safest to save them that way. You'll still be able to open them on your PC.
 
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