I don't know elements but
set the image resolution to 73 dpi (for viewing on a monitor rather
than printing - any image that says it's size is how ever many
cm/mm/inches or what ever is irrelevant unless you know the pixels
per inch/cm count your actually working with)
Now resize (again I don't know elements) but suggest use pixel count
because if it behaves like some versions of Microsoft Word do then
resizing by scaling keeps the full size image data intact so keeps
the total file size quite large.
note however you are never ever going to get 50 photo's (or even 25)
down below a total of 1.4MB (the recommended maximum for e-mail
attachment) without a huge lose of quality.
2 solutions that I can suggest.
1:resize the pictures until you hit say 10 MB or until just before
image quality falls too low (which ever comes first) put the
catalogue up on a web server as a PDF and send clients an email a
small attachment with just 1 or 2 page "summery" with say 2 or 3 good
quality images and some thumbnails or crops of other images and a
link to the file on the web server.
2:break the catalogue up in to 2 to 4 page blocks ( so that each file
is at or below 1.4MB) and send them out individually.
Hi folks,
A basic question but I am doing something wrong.
I am trying to help my daughter develop a catalogue of clothing, with
photos, in a Word document small enough to email to clients.
She has 50 professionally taken photos each of 2.2 MB approx 25 cm X 40 cm.
We want them down to approx 2 cm wide in proportion but to keep the best
quality for viewing the detail.
I am using Photoshop Elements 3.
What is the best way to reduce them? Scaling or by pixel count?
How many pixels per sq inch is best for this. It is not being printed just
emailed but the client may print it out their end.
Our first try ended up with a 5 page document of 45+ MB! This slowed
everything down and is useless for emailing but the quality is great.
We now have it down to 3.5 MB but this is still big and some photos are
losing quality?
I have read the Photoshop guide but the setting are still not right. Getting
the 2 cm width is not easy!
Is a PDF file the way to go?
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Lloyd
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