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How to resize pictures – Photoshop

Discussion in 'Suggestion Box' started by SnoSheriff, Apr 11, 2006.

  1. SnoSheriff

    SnoSheriff Site Owner Staff Member Administrator

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    1. Open a picture in Photoshop
    2. In the menu, click ‘File>Save for Web’
    3. On the right in Settings select ‘JPEG High’ and set the Quality to 60.
    4. Select ‘Image Size’ tab
    5. Make sure ‘Constraint Properties’ is checked
    6. Set the Width to 500 pixels or less.
    7. on the bottom left side of the window you will see the new file size. If that is < 100K then you are ready (else reduce the quality)
    8. Press ‘OK’ button
    9. Type file name and select saving location
    10. Hit ‘Save’ button

    Here are pictures of the described steps.
     

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    Nice - that sums it up. Pretty straightforward :) Thanks
     
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    SnoSheriff Site Owner Staff Member Administrator

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    I modified my steps and edited your post as per your suggestion. This should eliminate any confusion. Thanks Woot.
     
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    When I set width to 640 I get this errormessage:

    "The Attachment/Image must be less than 500 pixels wide and 480 pixels high"

    ?
     
    FinnogAngela, Dec 23, 2006
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    Yes - this webpage has an enforced maximum image height/width. According to the error message, you must make the image at most 499 pixels wide and 479 pixels high... so 640 pixels is too big - if you shrink it down to < 500px wide and <480px tall.
     
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    It use to be 640, but has since been reduced, so the info in SnoSheriffs April 11 post above is wrong !
     
    Nick, Dec 24, 2006
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    Thanks Nick - when I looked through the steps I didn't see that. I only saw what was in the actual dialog box which worked fine.
     
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    FinnogAngela, Dec 24, 2006
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    It's not attached... I linked to the image from a different server... you can link to as big an image as you want. Be bandwidth friendly for our friends with low speed connections of course.
     
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    Thanks, I edited my post to 500pixels. Wider pictures make the forum text wider than an average monitor so the users have to scroll left and right to see the entire post. Larger pictures can be posted in the gallery and you can reference it :wink: .
     
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    I don´t get it - the pics in the mentioned thread are links? How do you make them appear as pics?
     
    FinnogAngela, Dec 24, 2006
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    Instead of using the 'quick reply' at the bottom of the thread, click the 'post reply' button.

    Find an image you want to link to... I have some on my server so I use that. Then there is an insert image tool... or you can do it manually.

    If you use square brackets INSTEAD of these round parenthesis

    (IMG)http://www.myserver.com/imageToLinkTo.jpg(/IMG)

    and that will link in the image...
     
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    Ok woot and snosheriff, thanks - see what you mean by the (too) large pics - but I think it looks nicer without the frames from the attached pics..
     
    FinnogAngela, Dec 24, 2006
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    Is it possible to shrink a photo down to avatar size? My Kodak sotware has a "thumbnails" setting, but it doesn't go down to the 6kb requirement needed.
     
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    Microsoft power toys has a image resizer if you're using XP.
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe

    after installing it, you just right click on the image and choose resize. Choose custom, and input your pixels.
    It will create a new (custom) image in the same folder, and you can just upload it to the forums server.
     
    eatatjoz, Apr 15, 2007
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    Photoshop also does batch processing if you have quite a few images:-

    1. Open Photoshop and select the File Menu
    2. Select Scripts
    3. Select Image processor
    4. Select what folder your images are saved in
    5. Select the size of the images you want
    6. Select the output file type
    7. Click Run

    The new images will be resized and put in a new folder, none of the original images will be edited, job done

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    Hope that helps... 8O
     
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