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I'm new here & need help desperately! I am trying to submit a t-shirt design to threadless.com & i can't save my file as a gif. When i'm in File i can only Save or Save as, i'm not given Save to Web option.......is that what i need in order to save as GIF???
IF i need to enter Image ready i can't do that either, or perhaps i can but clicking on it doesn't work.
What do i need to do??
I don't know what i'm doing & i'm pulling my hair out....HELP!!!!!! - Denise
I'm not sure why you need GIF ... it's an almost useless format other than for certain web applications...
but anyway, just chose "save for web" and on the right hand side you'll have format options where you can choose GIF from the drop down. Then you should be good to go.
If I remember correctly, to get the file you need, keep it at 8 bit and use Indexed Color format to get the .gif option in the drop down. Unless the company you stated requires a gif though, I do not see a reason to use that file format unless you are possibley making an animation for the web.
Is the problem that i'm using a MAC? Someone told me i may need to get on a PC.
No, shouldn't matter at all.
If you don't care, you can always send the file to and I'll have a look at it.
Problems like this are often solved within a minute just by looking at the content, now I keep guessing. Btw, have you tried resetting the peference file?
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Originally Posted by denise beaulieu
IF i need to enter Image ready i can't do that either, or perhaps i can but clicking on it doesn't work.
You can't open ImageRead at all? That's strange... I would almost suggest uninstalling/reinstalling Photoshop.
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Originally Posted by SEP
If I remember correctly, to get the file you need, keep it at 8 bit and use Indexed Color format to get the .gif option in the drop down.
No, Save for Web and the GIF option in Save for Web are both available regardless the image mode and whether it's 8 or 16 bits, only 32 bits is not supported. Only image mode that is not suppoted by Save for Web is Multi Channel, but it will warn you about that.
Yeah, I was reading quickly on the way out of the house, and only correctly read the first half of that. My bad.
To actually lose the save for web feature (barring an actual corruption problem) you would be in something like multichannel as Guass mentioned. I would post the file as he suggested, rather than us guessing and guessing, it could very well be something we can pinpoint quickly upon viewing it.
how to save a file as gif!!!!! 
and I'll have a look at it.
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