
52 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Saving Your Work
Saving Your Work
After all your organizing, editing, and resizing effort, you want to be sure you
don’t lose any of those files you struggled so hard to create. Saving your work is
easy in Elements. (You don’t need to do anything special to save information in
the Organizer like tags or collections; you need to save only images you’ve created
or changed, and you do that in the Editor.) When you’re ready to save your file,
press Ctrl+Shift+S to bring up the Save As dialog box, shown in Figure 2-15.
The top part of the Save As window is pretty much the same as it is for any pro-
gram—you choose where you want to save your file, what you want to name it,
and the file format you want. (More about file formats in a moment.) You also get
some important choices that are unique to Elements:
• Include in the Organizer. This checkbox always appears turned on. Leave it on
and your photo gets saved in the Organizer. Turn it off if you don’t want the
new file to go to the Organizer.
Figure 2-15:
The Elements Save As
dialog box actually varies
a little depending on
what you’re saving, but
this example is pretty
typical. When you click
the Format pull-down
menu (indicated by the
cursor), you’ll see a long
list of file formats to
choose from.
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