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13-12-2007, 11:14am
I will assume that you still have photoshop. So, lets look at it. Open up your image.
1. Make your colour corrections first. Go to 'Image', 'Adjustments'. There is a number of way to do this. the simpliest way is to go to 'Auto-levels'. Doesn't always correct it properly but play with the histogram in 'levels'. Move the little triangles'. You can get away with an Auto-level and some minor adjustment in 'brightness and contrast'. A crappy image can be fixed in most cases.
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2. Next, Crop the image to your desired size. Drag a box. Go to 'Image' and 'Crop'. This will leave you with a decent base image to make smaller.
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3. The guts of it. Sizing. Go to 'Image', 'Image Size'. For the net, go to 72 dpi. This will drop it down a fair bit. it is still way to big physically.
4. Go to the magnifying glass, right click on the image and select 'Actual Pixels'. Go back to image size, change the width and height drop down to 'percent'. Run with this sequence. Change it too 70%, click ok, open 'Image Size' again, 80%, and repeat until the size is right for what you want to show on your display. The temptation is too take great big steps. it hurts the image too much. Little bites a few times is better.
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5. Adda nice border or whatever you want to make it present better. For example, I took the fluff off the carpet and the red spot out of the Xmas tree. Save it as a Jpeg at quality level 9. Then, post your heart out. My final image here is 121kb. About right for the job.
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And that's it. Happy posting.
1. Make your colour corrections first. Go to 'Image', 'Adjustments'. There is a number of way to do this. the simpliest way is to go to 'Auto-levels'. Doesn't always correct it properly but play with the histogram in 'levels'. Move the little triangles'. You can get away with an Auto-level and some minor adjustment in 'brightness and contrast'. A crappy image can be fixed in most cases.
[attachment=1908]
2. Next, Crop the image to your desired size. Drag a box. Go to 'Image' and 'Crop'. This will leave you with a decent base image to make smaller.
[attachment=1909]
3. The guts of it. Sizing. Go to 'Image', 'Image Size'. For the net, go to 72 dpi. This will drop it down a fair bit. it is still way to big physically.
4. Go to the magnifying glass, right click on the image and select 'Actual Pixels'. Go back to image size, change the width and height drop down to 'percent'. Run with this sequence. Change it too 70%, click ok, open 'Image Size' again, 80%, and repeat until the size is right for what you want to show on your display. The temptation is too take great big steps. it hurts the image too much. Little bites a few times is better.
[attachment=1910]
5. Adda nice border or whatever you want to make it present better. For example, I took the fluff off the carpet and the red spot out of the Xmas tree. Save it as a Jpeg at quality level 9. Then, post your heart out. My final image here is 121kb. About right for the job.
[attachment=1911]
And that's it. Happy posting.