September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 17: Elements and the Web 433
Saving Images for the
Web or Email
NOTE The Elements Color Picker lets you limit your choices to Web Safe Colors. But do you
need to stick to this limited color palette for Web graphics? Not really. You need to be seriously
concerned about keeping to Web-safe colors only if you know the majority of people looking at
your image will be using very old Web browsers. All modern Web browsers have been able to
cope with a normal color range for several years now.
Getting colors to display consistently in all browsers is another kettle of fish entirely. See the next
section, “Previewing Images and Adjusting Color.”
Previewing Images and Adjusting Color
Elements gives you a few different ways to preview how your image will look in a
Web browser. You can start by looking at your image in any Web browser you
have on your computer (see Figure 17-5).
To add a new browser, in the Save For Web dialog box, click the Preview In drop-
down list and choose Edit List. Then, in the dialog box that appears, click Add
Browser and navigate to the one you want. If you want to have all your browsers
listed, then click Find All. From now on you can pick any browser from the list.
When you do, Elements launches the browser with your image in it.
If you want to get a very rough idea of how your image will look on other people’s
monitors, click the arrow that’s just above the upper-right ...
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