Question about Photoshop CS3

[ellemcgraw]

I have a question. I just started using photoshop and I am having a hard time saving files as a jpeg. When I go to save as it doesn't give me the option to save as a jpeg so I've been saving them as psd files. Is there anyone who knows what could be going on?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Tiffany

[ukglyn]

If you flatten the image back down to 1 layer you should then be able to save as jpeg, if more than 1 layer it will only save a psd.
Hope that helps.

[private]

If the above does not work after you flatten the image - there is a drop down menu, and where is says pdf, you can then save it as a jpg. Sometimes that happens to me - I think its random but I suspect there is a reason, I just dunno what it is!

[PomND]

what other options does it give you? you could save as .png files, which are higher quality than JPEG but the file size will be larger.

[Sterling]

You could be in 16 bit mode.

Go to Image>Mode>change to 8 bit. You cannot save to jpeg in 16 bit mode.

[ArkyMark]

There's also the "Save for Web and Devices..." option from the File menu - or press SHIFT-CRTL-ALT-S (on Windows) - and this should bring up the dialog for saving an optimized JPG of the image regardless of what state or format it's in...

I know you can have multiple-layers open in the document and you do not have to flatten it first before "Saving for Web..." - it just discards hidden layers and saves "what it sees" as a JPG - and it may automatically knock everything down to 8-bits if you're in a higher mode. (Not sure about that, though...)