User Guide

CHAPTER 12
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Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail
• If you chose the Simple, Table, or Wet gallery
style in step 2, you can enter the number of
columns and rows for the thumbnails in the
Columns and Rows text boxes.
• To create a border around each thumbnail, enter
the width in pixels in the Border Size text box.
• To label thumbnails, select options from the
Titles Use options: Filename, Title, Caption,
and Copyright Notice. (You specify an image’s
title, caption, and copyright notice in the File
Info dialog box. See “Adding file information”
on page 234.)
• From the Font and Font Size pop-up menus,
choose options for the label text.
11 To color elements in the gallery, choose
Custom Colors from the Options pop-up menu.
To change the color of a particular element, click
its color swatch, and then select a new color using
the Color Picker. For example, to change the
background color of each page, click the
Background swatch; to change the background
color of the text banner, click the banner swatch.
12 To superimpose copyright information over
the full-sized images, choose Security from the
Options pop-up menu. From the Content pop-up
menu, choose either Custom Text to enter text or
another option to include text from the File Info
dialog box. (To learn how to use the File Info
dialog box, see “Adding file information” on
page 234.) To set how the security text appears, use
the Font, Font Size, Color, Opacity, Position, and
Rotate pop-up menus. To choose a custom color,
click the color swatch or choose Custom from the
Color menu to select a color in the color picker.
13 Click OK to create the gallery.
Photoshop Elements places the following HTML
and JPEG files in your destination folder:
• A home page for your gallery named index.htm.
Open this file in any Web browser to preview
your gallery.
• JPEG images inside an images subfolder.
• HTML pages inside a pages subfolder.
• JPEG thumbnail images inside a thumbnails
subfolder.
• Additional Web files for some gallery styles.
Sending images with an e-mail
message
When you want to share your photos and images
with friends and family, you can quickly attach
images to an e-mail message with the click of a
button.
Note: This feature works with your existing internet
account and e-mail application. If you haven’t setup
your internet access and an e-mail account, your
system may prompt you to do so. See you operating
system, internet access, or e-mail application
documentation.
To attach an image to an e-mail message:
1 In Photoshop Elements, open the image you
want to e-mail.
2 Click the Attach To E-mail button in the
shortcuts bar, or choose File > Attach to E-mail.