"Save for Web" not an available option

metmet Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
edited December 29, 2009 in Finishing School
My friend gave me an old copy of Photoshop 6 and I've been doing a little experimenting with trying to make a watermark and website header. (I have no photoshop experience.) I was following Andy's instructions in the tutorial, but when I went to do the save - "Save for web..." isn't an option that I can select. Am I missing a step here or something? Thanks in advance to anyone that can help me out.

Here's a screenshot.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited December 29, 2009
    Is your pic in 8-bit, RGB mode?
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  • aj986saj986s Registered Users Posts: 1,100 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    Not 100% certain, but wondering if the image needs to have layers "flattened" in order to be compatible.
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  • metmet Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    Richard wrote:
    Is your pic in 8-bit, RGB mode?
    I'm not sure. Where would I look to find this out?
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  • metmet Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    aj986s wrote:
    Not 100% certain, but wondering if the image needs to have layers "flattened" in order to be compatible.
    I had tried that, but unfortunately it didn't work either.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited December 29, 2009
    met wrote:
    I'm not sure. Where would I look to find this out?

    Menu bar: Image->Mode
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  • metmet Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    Thanks for the tip. It is an RGB, 8 Bit.
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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    It may have something to do with transparency? Try just saving it as a PNG, that should be just fine for a watermark on Smug.
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  • metmet Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    It won't let me just do a Save As and change it to a PNG either. That isn't even an option in the drop-down. I wonder if it has something to do with it being an older version of Photoshop??
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    What happens if you try Save As... ?
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  • darkdragondarkdragon Registered Users Posts: 1,051 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    This is actually a fairly common problem that is usually fixed by reinstalling photoshop. I've seen it happen in v5 and v6.

    Save your image as PSD and then uninstall, reboot machine, reinstall, reboot machine.

    Othere then that, seems like your image should save fine. ne_nau.gif
    ~ Lisa
  • metmet Registered Users Posts: 405 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    Thanks. I was afraid it might be something like that.
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  • darkdragondarkdragon Registered Users Posts: 1,051 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2009
    met wrote:
    Thanks. I was afraid it might be something like that.


    Hopefully it works, which is better then not having access at all. mwink.gif

    Sometimes the files for Photoshop installs seem to get corrupted (the .dll files), I have no idea why - but that is why a reinstall usually solves it.
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