Comments on: 4 Ways to Formatting Images for the Internet

By: Ivor

Ivor — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:47:18 +0000

JotaSolano

The quality slider controls how much information is discarded from the image when it is compressed into a JPEG.

If you select low (30 or below) you’ll see that the image looks less refined than at high settings.

The trade off is low settings = less big (lighter) files sizes which open faster.

So you image could be 3000 x 3000 pixels in size but be anywhere from tens of KB up to a Mb or so in weight.

Just adjust the slider until you get a quality/weight compromise you are happy with or reduce the pixel dimensions (so the image looks smaller) and try again.

By: Juan

Juan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:53:53 +0000

Thanks for the heads up on Photoshop. And also take a look at googles Picasa program. It will automatically resize your photos for e-mailing. It’s great when you have lots of photos to send out.

By: Marla

Marla — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:15:33 +0000

I love the Album Cafe’s blog-it templates as well. Very easy to use and make downloading speedy. Also, MCP Actions Blog has a free “resize and sharpen for web” actions that is wonderful!! If interested, here’s the link to the action – it’s under the high-definition sharpening: http://www.mcpactions.com/actions/try-me.html

By: tirol

tirol — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:18:19 +0000

If you can manage to crop your photo just a touch longer than it is wide, facebook will accidentally read it as a portrait instead of a landscape, so your submission will be double large. handy tip for the folks who also cant stand 1990′s technology in a modern site.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:03:22 +0000

Thanks for the post and it is useful

I generally use Photoshop to resize my Images almost all the time using the Bucubic Sharper and it gives pretty good results.

Many times I use ACDSee too for Image Size Reduction but it compromises the quality of an image too.

By: ediathome

ediathome — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:11:58 +0000

An even quicker way to resizing an image is to create an Automator plugin for the finder. Start with “Get selected Finder objects…” then add “Resize image” and then save it as a Finder plugin. Here you go. When you have selected an image in the finder right-click on it go to the Automator menu item and select your new workflow – here you go!

By: Andy MIlls

Andy MIlls — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:25:48 +0000

@Ultrasonic – saving at full size for master copies is fine, but unless you intend to allow printing of your images at Deviant Art, it’s not needed for versions you upload.

Photographic images (by that, I mean not images that are part of a web site design. etc.) only need to be around 650 to 1000 pixels wide for viewing on most web sites and are only around 100Kb in file size (give or take a bit).

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:33:49 +0000

Thanks for this! I love photos but sometimes it’s hard to get through all the technical know how that goes along with modern digital photography! This was nice and simple for anyone to follow!

By: Ultrasonic

Ultrasonic — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:50:16 +0000

hm I always save my images at their full size (pictures taken in RAW with a 10.1mp) and just save it as jpeg; a 4mb image is saved and I upload to devart just fine

By: Taltan

Taltan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:48:00 +0000

For batch resize I would suggest VSO Image Resizer. It compresses the images very well and still retain alot of details. Also has alot of useful options for file renaming, aspect ratio and more.