Opening & Saving Images

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If you took the tutorial of  my "Getting to Know PSP 7", you now have a basic knowledge of the PSP options and layout.   If you haven't taken this tutorial, and you aren't familiar with PSP 7, then I strongly recommend that you do that tutorial first.

You're probably feeling really excited about creating some cool stuff with your new toy and to that I say "GO FOR IT".  You can learn a lot just by playing around and having fun.  I am offering these tutorials to help shorten the learning curve for you, and take you a step closer to creating lots of neat stuff.

In this tutorial  we're going to discuss some basics about opening new images existing images, and talk about saving the images you create.  

The File Open Dialog Box is one way to open an existing image. You can access this dialog box by either clicking on File/Open  on the Menu Bar:

 or the Open Icon on the toolbar, which looks like this:  or you can use the keyboard shortcut, which is Ctrl+O.

Whichever method you use will open a window that looks like this:

I have all the things discussed below circled in different colors on this image.  So refer to these as we discuss them.

You can navigate to the file to open by clicking the arrow on the far right of the "Look In" window (circled in blue) and choosing from the directory, by clicking on the arrow at the far right (circled in red).

Notice the "Files of Type" circled in green. The dialog box will only display choices of the file type selected.  You can change the file types displayed by clicking on the arrow on the far right (circled in gold).

Here I've chosen "All Files" so I'm certain I'm seeing everything in the directory.  In the big white area, you will see the names of images within the folder you chose to "Look in".  Left clicking once on a files name within the white area will display the file in the "file name" window and highlight it in blue (circled in pale blue) in the main box. When a file is chosen, a thumbnail view (circled in pink) of the image will appear in the window below if you have the "Show Preview" box checked (circled in pale green).  Now you can open the image by clicking the open button or double clicking the file name.

From the "File" button on your menu bar you can access the PSP Browser. The browser is a great way to visually select the image you're looking for. Another way to access the browser is the keyboard shortcut  "Ctrl+B".

The browser window looks like this:

The left portion of the browser displays the directory tree for easy navigation to your image files. The right portion displays thumbnail views of all the images of the chosen directory.

You can select an image in the browser by clicking on it.   To open an image double click on it, or just drag it to the workspace.

By selecting File/Preferences/ General Program Preferences/Browser from the menu bar you can change the size of the thumbnail displayed as well as the selection color. You can do this as the image below shows.

From this location you can also uncheck the "Save browser files to disk" box. I strongly suggest doing this so you're not cluttering up your hard drive with these browser files every time you open it.  To do this, open your "preferences" as we just discussed above.  Click on the "Browser" tab.  It will look like this:

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