September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Elements and the Web
Printing your photos is great, but it costs money, takes time, and doesn’t do much
to instantly impress faraway friends with your newfound photo prowess. Fortu-
nately, Elements comes packed with tools that make it easy to email your photos
and post them on the Web.
Elements 5 makes it easy to send photos to several different popular online shar-
ing services, right from the Organizer. You can even send your photos to cell-
phones and electronic picture frames. If you want, you can place your photos on a
Yahoo map and share the map, a very fun feature. In this chapter, you’ll learn
about all these sharing techniques. You can also create elaborate slideshows and
mini Web sites featuring your pictures, which Chapter 18 covers in detail.
Image Formats and the Web
Back in the Web’s early days, making your graphic files small was important,
because most Internet connections were about as quick as camels. Nowadays, file
size isn’t as crucial; your main obligation when creating graphics for the Web is
ensuring they’re compatible with the Web browsers people use to view your Web
pages. That means you’ll probably want to use either of the two most popular
image formats, JPEG or GIF:
• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts’ Group). Use this format for images with lots
of detail and where you need smooth color transitions. For example, photos are
almost always posted on ...
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