Please Help

[Suzan Mabry]

I just finished a page and tried to save it to upload on the web. I tried the "save as" under file. A message popped up that said it was too big and asked if I was sure I wanted to continue. I chose not to continue. I used a 12x12 layout, but had several elements. Should I have worked in an 8x8 layout or what? Thanks in advance.

[Becky Roy]

I'm certainly no professional, but this is how I do it:

After you save your psp file, for a 12x12 page change the image size to 600x600 (drops it down to 2 inches x 2 inches - but it's what works on the web),
Do a "save for web" - your page should not look too much different in the preview - but I've found some of the effects, like drop shadows and bevels, drastically change the appearance, for which I have not yet found a solution but have been trying for weeks now
Select your file type (jpg and gif is all I use, gif is a little higher memory but seems to be higher quality - but some sites you upload to have a low file size limit and jpg is the way to go),
Confirm it then choose a file name - I use the original file name and add "-upload" to the end.
Then when you exit out of PSP it will ask if you want to save - if you save here you will be saving the original psp file with the reduced image size, I always hit no here.

[Rita Drew]

hi, IM A TOTAL NEWBIE & havent even done 1 LO, but Ive been saving tips & tricks for about a yr & thought this might answer your question about saving drop shadows, bevels, etc. Hope this helps. Note the example pics didnt come through as I saved this as an html doc & unsure how to link it from my hard drive to this post so I just did a copy & paste. Regards, Rita

Adobe Photoshop Elements Tutorial
How To Prepare A Scrapbook Page
For Uploading To A Gallery

By Linda Sattgast

small pageWeek of June 17, 2008

A layered 12 x 12 scrapbook page can easily run up to 100 MB in size or more, so it will need to be drastically reduced in size to upload to the average scrapbook gallery.

I've noticed that some pages in the gallery are too small to be seen very well, so they can't be enjoyed as much by viewers. Other pages may be large enough, but sometimes the quality suffers, and they look pixelated.

Here's how to get a good image for the gallery every time:

Duplicate The Image

• Choose File > Duplicate to get a copy of your scrapbook page. This is a safety issue so you don't accidentally overwrite your file. (It happens. I inadvertently overwrote a file not that long ago.)
• Click okay to the dialog box that comes up without naming it because you won't be saving it.

In the next step we'll drastically reduce the size of our scrapbook page, but first, let me tell you why I don't flatten my page before reducing the size. If you flatten the page, the type is simplified (rasterized) into regular pixels. It will, therefore, lose some quality when you reduce the size.

If you leave your page in layers, the type remains a vector image that maintains crisp edges whether you enlarge or reduce its size. So let's go on to the next step...

Reduce The Image Size

• Choose Image > Resize > Image Size to get the Image Size dialog box.

el tip 1

When the Image Size dialog box comes up, do the next steps in the following order:

• Check all three boxes in the lower, left corner: Scale Styles, Constrain Proportions, and Resample Image.
• Choose Bicubic Sharper from the menu at the bottom. (Most of the time this works well, but occasionally it may apply too much sharpening, in which case you can undo and use Bicubic instead.)
• Change the Resolution to 72 ppi.
• Under Pixel Dimensions at the top, change the Width to 500 pixels. (If you're using a size that isn't square, change the longest side to 500 instead.)
• Click okay.

Here's how your Image Size dialog box should look:

el tip 2

If you look at the file size (circled with white) you'll see that it went from 37 MB to 732 KB, but the file actually started out bigger than that. The layered Photoshop file was 114 MB.

So where did they get 37 MB? That's the size my original page would be if I flattened all the layers into one layer.

A file size of 732 KB is pretty good, but it's not low enough yet for a gallery on the web, so you need to complete the next very important step.

Save For Web

Save for Web is the best way to get the file size as low as possible while still maintaining good quality.
• Choose File > Save for Web.
• When the dialog box comes up,
use these settings:
JPEG
Medium
Progressive
Quality 45

el tip 3

This brings my file size down to 64 KB!

• Click OK.
• Name your file.
• Choose the location on your hard drive where you want to save the file.
• Click Save.
• Close the duplicate file without saving it.

That's it. Upload the Saved For Web file to the gallery, and we'll all enjoy a great view of your scrapbook page! This is the size and quality my page appears to viewers in the gallery:

[Suzan Mabry]

Thank you. This will be very handy. I'm going to print it out now.

[Michelle RV]

If the message is something like "image size exceeds max..." just ignore it and continue. The size of your layout (8x8, 12x12, 11x8.5(smiles))doesn't matter. Hope this helps.

[Suzan Mabry]

Thanks. I'm always afraid to just ignore those messages. I'll see if this works.

[Diane (diney)]

Hi, If you are using Photoshop or Elements try this:

1- File Save as your original photoshop document (PSD)
2 - File Save as a JPG (so you have a full sized one to print)
3 - Go to Image, resize, image size and change the pixels from 300 to 72
4 - File, Save for web, a split screen appears - on the right side make sure you have JPG, (or GIF if the gallery you want to upload only accepts GIF) maximum quality and 100%, click ok, then it says save optimized as (put in WEBfilename) and click OK

MichelleRV was right - it doesn't matter what size of LO you make...& Becky Roy's great advice - make sure when you close out of your PS document, that when it asks if you want to save it, click no. (that would save it at 72pixels!) Hopefully this make sense. If not let us know! =0)

[Suzan Mabry]

Thank you. I figured I'd skipped a step somewhere. It worked!

[Hummie]

I'm a little baffled at all the extra steps that are being shared in order to save a layout for uploading to a gallery.

I simply do a Save for Web straight from my .psd file. If you need to reduce it a little more after changing the image size to 600 pixels (on the longest side because some people are rectangle scrappers), then just move the slider for image quality until you see at the bottom that the file size is small enough. Usually the default quality is 60, but sometimes I've taken it fairly far down and it's worked. Most of the time I never have to move it from the default.



I have videos here, but I think I put them around here too.

[Suzan Mabry]

Thank you. I'm learning something new every day.