On 23 Jan 2006, at 4:52 PM, Lloyd White wrote:
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?
You can scale the photo's but looking at your file size you probably
have a lot of colour elements in each photo .
You can reduce the file size by " saving for Web " which will give you
the opportunity
to reduce quality from say 100 % to 50 % ... it should show you the
before and after file sizes.
Quality is on the right edge of screen about quarter wway down. Click
on it will give you a slider
which you can pull to the required figure.
Options to change photo size are adjacent to quality also.
A file size of say 300k should give you a good picture on screen , but
you may find you can
reduce it even more.
This will not change your number of pixels or actual photo size.
Reducing them will
reduce the file even more.
I use PE 3
there will be other ways , but this is the one I have found to be easy
for me.
Bob
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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