Adobe Photoshop Elements File Menu - Including Save, File Info, and Organize

Save: File>Save allows you to save the photo you’re working on to view or work on later. You can specify a file name, the type of document you want to save it as, and where you want to save it on your hard drive.

Save As: File>Save As works almost the same as Save, but allows you to save a copy of what you’re working on with a different file name or document extension. For example: you have two photos of a shirt. You have made one shirt orange and the other shirt red. Rather than saving the orange one and then saving over it with the red one, you can specify the file names and save the same document once as orangeshirt.jpg and one as redshirt.jpg.

Save For Web: Save for web allows you to save a photo that will be best viewed on the internet. It will automatically set the file size to cut down on load time if you add it to a web page, and will also allow you to specify the quality of the photo, the size, and other options.

File Info: File info brings up a dialog box allowing you to specify different information about your photograph. File Info also shows you the camera that was used to take the photo, what exposure was used, the ISO, whether or not the flash fired, and many other helpful tips. This is a great addend to use if you want to re-create a specific photograph.

Place: Contrary to what you’d think, File>Place does not have anything to do with a teleportation device. Place allows you to have a photograph open, open another file and “place” that one over the one already open. This works well if you are creating a background for a photo and want to see how it looks when it’s put together.

Organize Open Files: This File Menu choice allows you to save all of your open un-saved documents at once. You can give each photograph a title, save as a specific extension, and choose where you want it to save on your hard drive.

Process Multiple Files: File>Process Multiple Files gives you the option to work on many documents at the same time and change them all at once. For example, if you know all of your shots at the beach had the wrong exposure, rather than editing each photo separately, you can choose to process them all at the same time, telling Photoshop to correct the exposure. You can also choose where to save the batch of edited photos as well, rather than saving over the original files.