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Welcome to this lesson on some of the new Save and Copy commands in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. I have a file open that consists of three separate layers with different photo thumbnails on each layer. Let's say we're going to save this to an Office document. I can select File, Save for Office and that's going to bring up this Save for Office dialog box, which has many of the same elements that you're familiar with. Save In and I can navigate here and I can navigate all around my system, change my views and I've got the navigational shortcuts here. We're currently set to save it in my folder called This Lesson and currently there are no files there, so we can't see anything showing up in the middle area of this dialog box. The Optimize settings is where you can choose to optimize your file for different media and that changes the resolution. Screen or email is low, like 72 dots per inch. Professional printing is very high, like 300 dots per inch and default printing is 200 dots per inch. Let's select Professional Printing. Now, if you like, you can click Advanced Settings, which enables you to alter the image height and width to maximum size in inches, change that if you like, quality and so forth. If you're comfortable with your file as is, simply rename it if you like and select a new file types, which you're given five here to choose from, which those are available to you from the normal Save dialog. This sort of narrows your choices down. It gives you some formats that are going to be more compatible with Office. PNG works well for me, so let's press Save. That saves this for Office and changes the resolution for you. Let's look at this image information and you can see it's 72 dots per inch. Now, I'm going to jump out here to my This Lesson folder and open that up, right click, choose Properties, Summary and I can see that that horizontal vertical resolution has changed now to virtually 300 dots per inch. So by saving for Office, I was able to change the resolution and limit the size if it were going to grow. That's pretty convenient. Let's look at the Copy commands. Those are under the Edit Menu, Copy, Special, Copy, Merged, which you shouldn't be familiar with and Copy for Professional Desktop, Screen or Email. Very similar to the Save commands only here instead of saving it to a new document, you're copying and the effect is very similar. By Copying to Screen or Email, I'm going to change the resolution of what's copied, as well as you'll notice that these three layers are on a separate layer. That's sounds pretty foolishly obvious, but those three layers are separate. Normally, when you copy something that's on a layer, for example, I have the top layer selected here and I've created a selection which includes a lot of material, if I just go Edit, Copy, I'm just going to copy what's on the layer I have selected. So even though you can see what looks like other material in this layer, when I pressed Copy and Paste into a new image, you can see I've just captured that top layer. It would take a Copy, Merged command to select other layers in addition to the one that I've selected. Now, when you select Copy For, that merges and converts the bit depth and resolution all at the same time. So you'll notice even though I've got three separate layers here, when I select a portion of this image, those four thumbnails, choose Edit, Copy, Special for Professional Printing, I'm going to get a merged and converted image into my clipboard and now, when I select Edit, Paste as New Image, there you go. Those layers were merged together and I choose my Image Information, the resolution is 300 pixels per inch. That was successfully converted upwards to account for the Professional Printing setting. Very neat. Now, I can also, this is why I have the Word document out here on the Desktop or Word icon, you can also just paste that into a different file, whether it's Word or some other program. But now this has been merged together and again, this is at 300 dots per inch. Very, very powerful way of working that allows you to have a source image here in a Paint Shop Pro format at whatever resolution you might want and you might want to work higher or lower depending and then you can copy and paste based on the needs of the medium you're sending it to. If I want to copy this and send it to a printer, then I would Copy for Professional Printing. Desktop Printing is at 200 dots per inch and the Screen or Email is lower. So OK. That is an overview of the new Save for Office and Copy commands in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.