We recommend no higher than 70k for 600pixel images or 200k for 1000pixel images, but we allow 100k for 600pixel images or 400k for 1000pixel images.ġ. Taking over half a minute to load, an image saved at this high quality setting is not really necessary for the web.Ĭhoose the compression setting on the slider that has the best quality, with the smallest file-size. If the quality is obviously suffering at any lower settings, this is about as high as you should go saving for the web. We save many of the photos on ePHOTOzine at around the 45 quality setting to make sure they load quickly. Although the quality difference is hard to appreciate, as the images have been resaved as JPGs, the three images below show the different statistics that will appear in the Save for web window as you change the JPEG Quality slider. These aren't necessary for this technique so don't worry.ĥ. The majority of photos are going to be saved in JPEG format, so making sure this is selected, click on the arrow to the right in the Quality setting and use the slider that pops up.Įlement Users Note: If you're in Photoshop Elements, you'll notice your Save for web window has less options than the one shown above. If you do this however, you're unlikely to get the lowest file size or the best quality, the key is to find a balance. You can get away with this often, because the Save for web function usually does a good job on default settings. When you've got this open, the temptation is to click save and not worry about fine tuning. You can find it in File > Save for web or ALT CTRL SHIFT S (Quite a handful!)Ĥ. It takes quite a bit of care, but with some tweaking you can get the lowest possible file-size for your photo.Ī recent addition to Photoshop is the save for web function, which is an excellent tool for this technique. However, this next stage can have a massive impact on the size of the end result photo. Now you've resized the photo, you're half way there. (1000pixels for e2 Members ) Then click OK to resize the image.ģ. Then enter a number into the width box, on ePHOTOzine we allow images of no more than 600 pixels wide or 600 pixels high if it's a portrait style shot. Make sure the Constrain Proportions box at the bottom is ticked.
Which will bring something similar to the window below up. Load the large image into Elements or Photoshop that you want to re-size.Ģ. The resizing process is very simple and below you will find a step-by-step instruction for some of the most popular Digital-imaging programs.Ĭhoose the imaging program you use from the list below:ġ.
Here at ePHOTOzine people regularly ignore our criteria for photo sizes and it's only thanks to an automatic-resizing program that all photos appear at a uniform size in the reader gallery. In this new world of shared digital photos on the web, not everyone recognises the speed limits of internet connections and fail to prepare their images correctly.
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