Can't save as JPG in PSE * (Mac)

Hi - I've done a search and checked.

I don't have any layers
In IMAGE > MODE it is RGBcolor
I can't click on 8bits/chanel as it is greyed out...

Any ideas?? It's driving me nuts!

Thanks

Hmm, offhand I don't have any ideas off the top of my head...what are the details that show up at the title bar (the area that shows the image name)? I'm not using Elements or a Mac so I can't be a lot of help...

Is it just one photo, or a series of photos?

double click the first layer and see if a box pops up asking if you would like to convert - click yes if it does, and then save - sorry thats all I can think of.

Thanks to the Adobe forum I found the answer:

A .pse format is a multi-page document and therefore cannot be saved as a .jpg.

Step one would be to get rid of the extra pages. Make sure the .pse is expanded in the Project Bin, and then right click on the page(s) to delete and select Delete Page.

Step two would be to save it as a .jpg. If for some reason the JPEG format is not listed, you may need to flatten your image as JPEG's don't support layers. (Layer>Flatten Image)

Onecamera wrote in post #10867414
Thanks to the Adobe forum I found the answer:

A .pse format is a multi-page document and therefore cannot be saved as a .jpg.

.pse format?? Are you sure? .PSE??

So the full question was that I can't save an image as a .jpg in PSE (PhotoShop Elements) - PSE in that it only saves the file as a .PSE i.e imagename.pse with no option to save it as a .jpg.

That is until I folled the advice on the Adobe forum (after searching all over the place) and I then had the option to save it as a .jpg.

So yes, I am entirely sure.....

So, you can have a number of file types open in Elements, including tiffs, PSDs and jpegs -- those three can be saved as a jpeg assuming they are in 8 bits. But I've never heard of a ".pse" file -- are you sure that was the extension? Maybe there is such a thing -- is it supposedly a "special Elements" file type? I'd say that would be a file type to avoid if you don't want to have problems. Know that tiff and psd will both take layers and then you can when you are ready convert the files to jpeg without changing the file type (although you may want to flatten it, depending on how Elements handles layers when creating a jpeg (whether it automatically flattens or not).

Didn't know that...

Googled ".pse format" and sure enough:

http://www.elementsvil​lage.com/forums/showth​read.php?t=48265

There we go - admittedly you didn't know that I have worked in IT or over 10 years and know what a file extension is, but seriously it's hard to get one wrong when it's names imagename.pse

Yeah, but most of the people who responded use Photoshop, not Elements...
No .pse there (that I noticed anyway)
Did the link help?