Ricky

Just got a new digital camera and I'm a complete novice. I have never used photoshop before so would anybody be kind enough to go step by step and tell me how to resize the pictures taken on my camera at high quality down to below the 200K required by the uploader. I know its probably easy but can someone tell me !

Thanks in advance !

Ricky !

AdrianFRST

I don't have photoshop installed on this PC, but it's usually something like image > resize, or resample.

A good size for digicam pics is 640x480. As a .jpg they should be around 50 - 100k.

Hanslow

There is also a quality setting when saving as a jpeg. If you do 'save as' even though it's already a jpeg, I think it then gives you the option to set the quality. Obviously the higher quality, the bigger the file size. You should be able to find a happy medium when you have resized it (I normally resize to 640x480 for posting) and about 6 or 7 on the quality scale.

blp

Email me..

nigelward

Oh cool another picture of the MY03 Impreza

MartinM

Image > Image Size... from the menu

..or right mouse button on the title bar of the window containing the picture and select Image Size...

However, that just allows you to change the number of pixels in the image. Photoshop then allows you to set a 'quality' when saving. You have to play with it to get best tradeoff of quality vs size. For web pictures, 6 to 8 is entirely adequate.

Not wishing to be a party pooper, Photoshop (if that's what you've really got) is a very sophisticated package, that doesn't have usability as it best feature. If you need to ask how to resize an image, I'd look at PaintShop Pro as a better starting point.

normarker

If you have office you can use MS Photoeditor which is in office tools. You can resize in inches, cm, or pixels from the image menu. Dead easy, Photoshop is much too serious for normal people, and a lot slower.

peccy

dont forget to keep a copy of the originals before you shrink them incase you want to print them out later.

chiark

...and for this purpose you BOUGHT photoshop?

Ricky

Thanks for all the advice and opionons guys. I didnt buy Photoshop, but was given it for free. Thats the only reason I have it. Its my first digital camera also.... everybody has to start somewhere !

Cheers !

Ricky !