Settings for external editors, i.e. Nik

I have started setting up external editor presets for my various NIK Software applications.
But what I don't have a handle on is what settings I should use for such things as:
I'm just guessing on File Format, Color Space, Bit Depth, Resolution, Compression.
I've searched all the great Adobe tutorials but need a basic understanding what I should be striving for and when?
Thanks in advance for you help.
Bohdan

If you're publishing to .Mac put the Easy Grade Plus generated stuff (Guess it's html?) on your iDisk.
1. Create a folder in your iDisk/Web/Sites folder.
2. Name it something like 'EasyGrade' or whatever
3. Copy your EasyGrade files to that folder
4. web.mac.com/username/nameofthefolder/nameofthefile.extension is the address at which the file will be stored on the web
Example: http://web.mac.com/username/EasyGrade/index.html
However depending on the file format (what extension it has) it may not work on .Mac as not all formats are supported.
Regards,
Cédric

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