John Curall- Photoshop Save for Web Issue

Hello All,

I encountered a problem that needed solving when I was doing my remix project. I thought maybe the problem and solution might be useful information for some of you. My project included some photos I found online that I had altered. I incorporated them into a Photoshop page layout along with a header I created, which I wanted to save as a sliced html page so that I could do rollovers. Once I got the page the way I wanted, I tried to save for web and devices, but it was grayed out and would not let me do it. I searched online and I found out that I needed to reduce the bits per channel to get this to "unlock". This is found under images then mode. My page was at 32 bits per channel so I reduced it to 16. This unlocked the save for web and devices and I was able to save it as I wanted. However, this severely degraded the quality of all of the elements on the page. In order to make the page look like the quality that I had it at initially I had to re-save for web and devices each of the individual elements on the page at the appropriate size and them replace them in Dreamweaver. This then allowed me to have the page at the quality I desired. I'm not sure if there was a way to avoid this problem in the first place. Maybe one of you knows Photoshop better and can post your thoughts. I thought maybe this could be helpful to others if they encounter this issue.