Originally posted by odonnela:
Okay -- having professionaly designed a few web pages in my time, I thiough I'd toss in my two cents here. Photoshop is a whole-lotta program -- most people can suffice just fine with something like PaintShop pro, or Photo Editor. Those are fine programs -- user friendly, and they accomplish the job just fine for most people.
Photoshop brings in a whole new level of manipulation (actions, eye candy, etc), unavilable on most standard, inexpensive image editing software. Of course, it costs more, takes up more of your system resources, and is more difficult to use, for most, so if you're not taking advantage of the advanced benefits that Photoshop offers, you'd probably be better off with something else.
That being said, you damn sure can make internet-ready images. They're not ready to go if you save them as photoshop .PST files, but save them as .GIFs, or .JPEGs, and you're golden (understanding the pros & cons among GIFs, TIFFs, JPEGs, and RGB or CMYK color is a whole other topic). You sound like you're starting out, but don't know much about what to do with Photoshop. See if you have access to Adobe Image-Ready. It's awesome software for compressing photoshop images to make them more web-friendly. It's very intuitive software, too -- you can even create/edit moving GIFs with it (as I remember).
Overall, the best & most user friendly software suite for designing images and posting them to the internet is Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Dreamweaver is the internet webpage design and publishing utility. Fireworks is the editor/compressor. A great combo by anyone's standards. It's been a while since I've used any of that software, though.
So, to answer your question, you cannot publish ("post") to the internet with Adobe. Adobe is an image editor -- not a web page designer or publisher. You can bosk via html, ftp, or through a variety of software packages, such as Dreamweaver, or the user-friendly Microsoft FrontPage. Sorry for the long explanation. Hope this helps.