Cd cover design question!!

[KISHOREDA]

Well, i am using photoshop cs2 and started working on a cd cover , i used 300 dpi and 16mg file system...
Everything looks great when the prject was done, then i wanted to make a jpeg or gif version of my project to put it on myspace, but the photoshop is not allowing me to save it as jpeg or gif....
Any idea ???Plzzz

[steve.ledger]

Welcome to TG Forums.

When you say PS isn't allowing you? What error message is PhotoShop showing you?

[KISHOREDA]

thanks...
well, since i used 300 dpi for res and 16 bit file system, it allows me to save it only under either TIFF PSD , PING and couple other format...not GIF or JPEG

[Soquili]

For use on the web I recommend using 96 dpi and 8 bit file type. Using 300 dpi and 16 bit are disabling the gif and jpg file types because they cannot support those settings.

[KISHOREDA]

oh, thanks...
so what i have to do here ?
select IMAGE>>>IMAGE SIZE >>> CHANGE BOTH res and file bit to above ???

or what is the correct way to covert it to jpeg or gif , since all art work is done ??

[Soquili]

You might want to try save as a copy and select .gif or .jpg.

I stopped upgrading Photoshop at CS so I'm not sure what options are available on CS2.

[KISHOREDA]

still no luck...it gives me the option for SAVE or SAVE AS, but "save as" gives me an option , where it says "save a copY but still no option for JPEG ir GIF
earlier i went to IMAGE SIZE and changed the res to 180 and 8bit, but when i uploaded on myspace , it looks weird...
any other suggestions?

[Soquili]

Is there a Save for Web option in your File menu?

In Photoshop CS that option opens the image in Image Ready and has down sampled it so it can be saved as .gif, .jpg, png-8, and png-24.

The original is still in Photoshop and not affected by the changes.

[steve.ledger]

Yes Bill, that option does exist.

[Soquili]

Thanks Steve. There are more options for file types in CS2.