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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0
User Guide
Saving in BMP format
BMP is a standard Windows image format on
Windows-compatible computers. You can specify
either Microsoft
®
Windows or OS/2
®
format and a
bit depth for the image. For 4-bit and 8-bit images
using Windows format, you can also specify RLE
compression (see “About file compression” on
page 232).
Saving in Filmstrip format
Filmstrip format lets you open, edit, and save
movie files created in Adobe Premiere
®
. (To use
this feature, Adobe Premiere must be installed on
your system.) If you resize, resample, change the
color mode, or change the file format of a
Filmstrip file, or save a selection, in Photoshop
Elements, you won’t be able to save it back to
Filmstrip format. For further guidelines, see the
Adobe Premiere User Guide.
Saving in GIF format
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is the file
format commonly used to display graphics and
images, and to create and display small anima-
tions, in Web pages. GIF is an LZW-compressed
format designed to minimize file size and
electronic transfer time. For information on when
to use GIF format to optimize images, see
“Choosing a file format for the Web” on page 207.
You can save an image as one or more GIF files
using the Save for Web command. (See
“Optimizing Web images” on page 210.)
To save a file in GIF format:
1 Choose File > Save As, and choose
CompuServe GIF Format from the format list.
2 Specify a location, select saving options (as
described in “Saving images” on page 225), and
click Save.
3 Your image as automatically saved as a copy
(unless it's already in Indexed Color mode), in the
specified directory.
4 If necessary, deselect the Layers as Frames
option.
5 Specify a filename and location, and click Save.
6 For RGB images, the Indexed Color dialog box
appears. Specify conversion options as described
in “Choosing an image mode” on page 54, and
click OK.
7 In the GIF Options dialog box, select a row
order for the GIF file and click OK:
• Normal to create an image that displays in a
browser only when it is fully downloaded.
• Interlaced to create an image that displays as
low-resolution versions in a browser while the
full image file is downloading. Interlacing can
make downloading time seem shorter and
assures viewers that downloading is in progress.
However, interlacing also increases file size.
To save an animated GIF file:
1 Choose File > Save As, and choose
CompuServe GIF from the format list.
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