I have forgotten how to use photoshop to turn a psd doc

[truedelphi]

Into a simple jpg.

If someone knows how or can point me to a good tutorial, I'd be appreciative.

[2Design]

1. just save is as jpg file format - drop down menu at the bottom of save screen

[truedelphi]

2. When I do that, it still adds in the "psd" nomenclature extension thingee.

I have done this twice, once by myself, and once with a friend directing me over the phone. But it still ends up being a "jpg.psd" and still has over 3 Megs (Though it did come down from 29Megs, so it is a start.)

However to put the file on Flickr PHOTOSHARING I have to get it down to real jpg size.

[2Design]

3. try putting quotes around the filename - maybe the sftw is set to

add the psd no matter what - (a settings thing) - What program are you using?

[truedelphi]

4. Photoshop 7. Will run off and try that. But I am considering

That maybe the program itself is glitchy? Can I uninstall and then re-install without losing any of the actual psd files created over the last several years?

[RoyGBiv]

5. This isn't a glitch ...

The .psd information is saved in the .jpg so that you can still edit as though it were still a psp. If I understand it correctly, it's actually just a psp compressed as a jpg.

Converting requires you to flatten the image.

And I have no idea how to do this in Photoshop. I'm just recalling what I've read before about converting these images. When I've had to do it, I've just used a command line tool called "convert" that's packaged with ImageMagick. I think Gimp can do it too.

[truedelphi]

6. Three things -

One - Appreciation
First all of your help has been great. My computer is a "smart" computer and it has a contract with local law enforcement such that should sledge hammer blows be inflicted upon it, I am off to jail. Especially since the words "I hate you you rotten son of a gun piece of junk" are carefully sculpted by oodles of tiny Ritz creacker pieces all around the work station. And these words provide my motive. So it's good that your attention to me caused me to forego physical blows to said piece of junk.

Two - Egg on face
Egg on face - this morning, I tried in vain to get the file to open when sending it via email to a friend. Then after I re-manipulated the file, doing what you suggested, the file became smaller - down from 39 Megs to 340 Kb. But it still wouldn't email.

Ya know what? When I did the second re-conversion, I thought of renaming it slightly, so when I tried to send it a second time, and typed in the OLD NAME, it was still too big. Because it wasn't the newer smaller file, but the old one.

A big "Duh" moment to me there.

Three - knowledge semi-explosion
You explain things concisely and clearly and have upped my knowledge of PS program. Thanks!

PS I was only joking aboutlaw enforcement, but in truth, M. would not be happy to come home from atrip and see the computer in tiny shards. And possibly, after the initial thrill of the attack, I wouldn't feel that good either.

[RoyGBiv]

8. LOL!

I just had an image of a time when I destroyed a keyboard run through my head.

It was *SO* satisfying to kill that keyboard. Killed it dead ... and then, with its last dying breath, the keyboard reminded me why plastic rules the world. Stupid humans sometimes do stupid stuff like this with no shoes on. It got in the last blow ... a two inch piece of plastic impaling the soft part of my foot.

Anyway ... it's usually something simple with things like this. I struggled with a configuration file for a program the other day for over an hour before I finally realized the line with the "ENABLED" setting was commented it, thus disabling the entire program. Talk about egg on face.

[truedelphi]

7. Oh one more thing - what is ImageMagick

Part of what has me so steamed is before we switched to Windows XP, we were on Windows 95 which i used constantly until last summer. Then the hard drive finally crapped out.

We had several great little programs on Windows 95 that would have let me do everything I was trying to do very quickly. And they had great tutorials. PhotoSHop is excellent, but it is a massive program, and if all you wanna do is covert something from a psd to a jpeg, why not have something simple and quick? One of our old programs would have done the conversion in the amount of time that PS takes just to boot up! So I am looking for some simple program when I just have simple projects. Idf ImageMAgick is htat program I will be delighted

I always regret that the Windows 95 programs cannot work on XP.

[RoyGBiv]

10. A collection of tools ...

They're all command line.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Well, I don't use this on Windows, so I don't know if there's a GUI for it there or not. You can do all sorts of low-level things with it, and it's the core of a lot of graphics manipulation software for Linux.

Using it from the CLI has a steep learning curve associated with it, but if you manipulate images a lot, it can be worth it. If, for example, I have a directory with 500 images in it I just grabbed off my camera and want to resize all of them down to smaller dimensions suitable for web posting, I just run a simple command on the directory. It makes a copy of all the images resized and placed in a separate folder.

[truedelphi]

13. Everyone praises Linux but no one says how

To go about doing Linux - especially if you are a Dummy like me.\

What software do i buy for example? RedHat? Or what?

What books wouyl dhelp me do it?

We hate Micro$erf, but I don't wanna spend six months of my life and $ 700 to replace it. And so unless/untill someone has a cheap and easy and fool proof method of converting over to Linux, I don't think I can go there.

So far I have never gotten any more advice than "Do IT!"

The devil, as always, is in the details.

[RoyGBiv]

15. I wasn't suggesting Linux ...

ImageMagick tools work on Windows also. In fact they work in precisely the same way it seems.

Here's a list. Click on the name of the tool to see some examples.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-tools.php

I use these for quick and easy tasks for which a massive software package is blatant overkill and often wasteful of my time.

I mean, I pretty much know when I download pictures from my camera that I want to reduce the size of the thing by half and convert it to a .png before I upload them anyway. So ...

convert this.jpg -resize 50% this.png

Takes a few seconds at most.

Note that I like the command line interface for simple tasks like this. Many people don't and want a GUI. Neither is preferable in all cases, and a lot of it boils down to personal preference.

Whether you do or don't, the other suggestion of Infraview is a good one. That's what I commonly use on a Windows box.

As for how to do Linux, I'd be glad to help you in any way I can. Contrary to popular legend, most Linux folks aren't evangelists about it. I don't push it on people except in the sense of the politics involved. Now, I *am* an OpenSource evangelist, and Linux can be a part of that, but that's a bit different. The point, though, is I'll help anyone who asks. I don't tend to go out of my way to convince people.

Anyway, there are many guides to conversion online, and none of them cost anything. You can purchase a book, but personally I don't recommend it for a beginner. Those tend to be too broad in scope and offer generic advice that isn't all that helpful to the specific situations you'll encounter, at least in my personal experience. The advice I gave someone in this forum about getting his Ubuntu to install awhile back, for instance, I haven't ever encountered in a book. (It may be in one. I obviously haven't read every book, but it's not something that just jumps out at you if it is there in those books I've browsed or used.)

These books are pretty good as reference guides once you have everything running, though.

Personally, I tell most people who want to try it to go with a dual-boot (both Windows and Linux on the same machine) if possible. The transition tends to be easier that way. You don't have to commit to it until and unless you want to.

[truedelphi]

17. I spent most of yesterday at airport waiting for a relative

Whose plane was delayed. Will try to sort through your concise and clear resoponse as soon as I get dishes done, pets fed, garden watered and other such.

Thanks so much!

[ConsAreLiars]

12. You might want to take a look at Irfanview.

It is a very highly rated and long developed freeware mouse-driven program that makes doing the most commonly used things very easy anbd quick, including batch processing that can can quickly transform and save files of one size and/or type to another.

Here's the main site: http://www.irfanview.com/

Here's the list of file formats it reads and saves to: http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm
(It reads PSD and can convert, but can't convert other formats to and save them as PSD.)

[truedelphi]

14. Thanks. Will check it out. n/t

[truedelphi]

9. I meant my response number six to go to you but

It went below Roy's response to me. It basically is my thank you!

[RoyGBiv]

11. Glad you said that ...

It didn't actually sound like you were talking to me, and I was having a bit of mental whiplash. :)

[footinmouth]

16. Did you get this solved?

It's really an easy one. Open the psd file in Photoshop. Then go to "file", "save for web". You will have the choice of saving as a jpg, gif, png. Choose jpg and then indicate how much compression you want. I would try 75% and see how it looks. If it's a high resolution photo, you may want to resize it first.

[truedelphi]

18. Thanks. See response six. (Three things)

It was ALL my fault really.

GIGO - as when you don't submit the correct file name, you cannot expect that file to show results when you check back in on its properties!

And thanks for adding your two cents. Your advice was good.