Previewing Images in a Web Browser

If you have a Web browser installed on your computer, you can use the Web Browser feature to see how your active image will look on the Web. Paint Shop Pro creates an HTML page that displays your image in Windows Bitmap, GIF, JPEG, or PNG format.

To preview image files in Web browsers:

  1. Choose View > Preview in Web Browser. The Preview in Web Browser dialog opens.

  2. To change or add Web browsers, click the Edit Web Browsers button. For more information, see Setting File Locations. You can select up to three browsers.

  3. In the Select image formats list, click each format in which you want to preview your image.

  4. To select a background color for the Web page, left-click the Background color box to choose from the Color dialog or right-click it to choose a recently used color.

  5. In the Image size group box, mark the Use default check box to keep the original image dimension. Clear the check box to enter new image dimensions (in pixels) in the Width and Height edit boxes. Note that the resizing is done using HTML and not by Paint Shop Pro.

  6. Click the Preview button. If you selected to preview only the Bitmap format, the program launches the Web Browser and displays the image. If you selected any other format, the program opens the appropriate Optimization dialog. Select your choices for optimizing the image and click OK.

The Web browser or browsers display your image in the selected formats. You may need to scroll to see them. For each format, the browser displays the file size, color depth, and approximate download times at different modem speeds.

Related Topics

Saving Images for the Web

Embedding a Digital Watermark

Previewing images in a Web Browser