optimizing my own images

**behzad** · 03 August 2019, 12:41 PM

So lets say I optimize my own images in photoshop and I want to place them into my website, yet I do not want xara to covert them or change their output resolution/image quality. What do I do?

I do not want xara to set any of these choices to my images.

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**Acorn** · 03 August 2019, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by behzad

So lets say I optimize my own images in photoshop and I want to place them into my website, yet I do not want xara to covert them or change their output resolution/image quality. What do I do?
I do not want xara to set any of these choices to my images.

behead, stage them through a Blank Photo template.

Acorn

**behzad** · 03 August 2019, 03:10 PM

Acorn :P are you beheading me? omg, I do not get what you mean? stage ? what?

**gwpriester** · 03 August 2019, 03:11 PM

Yeah, I'm not sure what that means either.

**gwpriester** · 03 August 2019, 03:27 PM

Xara will export your images at 96 and/or 192dpi. You can opt for JPEG or PNG in the Images menu to force Xara to export your image to your preference.

**behzad** · 03 August 2019, 03:30 PM

Thanks Gary. I do not want to opt, I want to opt out. I do not want my already jpg image to be converted and downgraded again to jpg nor do I want it to become png.

**Acorn** · 03 August 2019, 06:13 PM

Drop an image into a blank photo template. This keeps your dpi and dimensions. Drag from the Gallery onto your actual design page (staging).

Acorn

**behzad** · 03 August 2019, 07:58 PM

Sorry I do not know what a photo template is.

**Egg Bramhill** · 03 August 2019, 11:34 PM

Hi Behzad,
Xara has numerous methods of opening files, they can be documents, animations, web etc one of them is photo. So if you right click on an image file in Explorer and choose open in Xara it's exported as a Photo.