On 13/11/04, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed: >I'm not interested in increasing the file size, rather, reducing it. >Interpolation upwards is not what I want to do. I'm quite familiar with >USM, and have read the referenced tutorial a couple of times. It doesn't >quite address my question. I'm trying to get the best results when >reducing a file for viewing on the web. Am I misunderstanding you? Or you >me?
Never heard of reducing a file size incrementally Shel. I just reduce it in one go. This is my procedure for reducing a file ready for the web: 1. Open pic in PS. 2. Go to 'Image Size' 3. I usually type in about 700 in the 'Pixel Dimensions' field - if it's a landscape format pic, then the 700 would go in the 'width' field. 4. Now I 'Save As' a Photoshop file and put it on my desktop. 5. I open Softpress Freeway and make a 'box' ready to import the pic - note that Freeway can take Photoshop files, so I have Saved As a Photoshop file. Freeway turns it into a jpeg where I can manually set the file size according to my requirements within Freeway. -however- if I was going to (say) export to the PUG for instance, then an alternative to above would be: 4. Now I open 'Save For Web' and select my preferred file size in kilobytes, depending on requirements. If it's for the PUG, then obviously below 75KB, and in fact the 700 pixels would be too big as the requirement is 600 along the longest edge? Anyway, Save For Web is the best way as it strips all other unnecessary data from the file and will save it in the most optimum way. 5. I think. 6. Er, that's it. HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
