save for the web

Saved it lost it!! can someone remind me how to save photos for the web to the correct size, please.

regardsb Thoramay.

Make a copy first! LINK
With a free plug for our club.
John

There is no size limit any more on this forum, the forum automaticly adjust the size but off course a smaller size loads faster.
1024 on the long side seems to be a good number.

If however you rely on the forum software to re-size your pictures, the IQ may suffer. Most commonly you would get aliasing (near vertical or horizontal lines develop a staircase appearance). It is better to use your own software to reduce your pictures to 800 pixels or less wide.

1024 is too wide for this forum - that's why sometimes we need to scroll from side to side. 800 pixels is the recommended size.

I use photoshop elements and the command is something like
File > Save for web and devices >

That will give you another screen in which you can re size the image, set the length to 800 pixels as per John and Oggys comments

Just make sure you give it a new file name so you dont overwrite the original

Regards
PaulM

Paulm I do the same, also don't forget to set embed a sRGB colour space.

I never found 1024 a problem here of course you can do the resizing better but be able to click on the photo and get a larger one is a plus point for me.

A tiny bit of topic but can you make from a photo a link?
You might ask why but it's a perfect compromise between the two.
You've your own resized 800px photo and you can have a link behind that to a larger photo.
I know you can do it with httml and tried it here but can't get it to work

When you Save For Web the image is saved where you allocate it. When you close the image that is lft on screen, don't forget that this is the original so when prompted to save changes or not, always say no.

Otherwise you will replace and lose your original.

thanks to all. It was the size that had me beaten. So! 800 on the long side and at 300 resolution should do me fine, then?

regards Thoramay

72ppi resolution for the web.

I haven’t tried it myself so no guarantees but this sounds a potentially excellent solution to resizing misery: http://www.onthegosoft.com/shrink_pic.htm

John...Now I am confused. I am sending pics for the club comp. Will 72ppi be sufficient. Don't know where I got the 300 from but it sticks in my memory.
regards Thoramay

Screen normally has a resolution of around 72ppi, if you're going to print then 300dpi is more then enough, I believe 240 is the more standard there.

No point having a screen image with 300ppi that has to be displayed at 72ppi.

300ppi is standard for printing and for megazine/book reproduction.

The ppi bit only makes any difference when you're specifying a size in inches or mm. If you're specifying a size in pixels then 800x300 at 72ppi is exactly the same as 800x300 at 300ppi, 240ppi, 0.5ppi, 12,457,896ppi, figure-of-your-choice-ppi...

If you made a picture of 8 inches x 10 inches at 72ppi then it would measure 576 pixels by 720 pixels, if you made the same picture (8"x10") at 300ppi then it would measure 2400 pixels by 3000 pixels. That's when you want to start worrying about ppi.

So in summary; when saving for web just select the size in pixels (800x600 or whatever) and ignore ppi, when saving for print select the size in inches/cm/mm and go as high a ppi figure as you can without losing image quality (generally not worth going above 300 though as that's pretty much at the limit of what human eyes can perceive).