image sizes for posting

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need some help here. i am struggling with my image sizes. my b+w comp entry was to small so i thought i would post it on the forums just get some veiws. but when i keeping it under the 800pixels was making the physical size 119k which showed up a lot of pixelating. where am i going wrong?
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I'm not sure you are going wrong, sometimes it's just a tradeoff between filesize v image quality. If you just can't get your image to look right at the accepted sizes, post it to your own webspace or gallery and supply a link to it.
 
What I do for forum shots is first of all resize the pic to 800 pixels on the longest side. Then 'Save As' a jpeg and you get a quality/compression slider. I adjust the compression till the file size is just under 160K and then save.
 
CT said:
What I do for forum shots is first of all resize the pic to 800 pixels on the longest side. Then 'Save As' a jpeg and you get a quality/compression slider. I adjust the compression till the file size is just under 160K and then save.
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Thats what I do also, but sometimes the file ends up bigger than what photoshop says its going to be, quite puzzling:thinking: .
 
When you use "Save As", it also saves the EXIF information, which equates to an extra 20k or so (roughly). :)

What I do, is resize to 800 pixels, then click "Save for Web", and next to the cancel button is a flyout menu. On there is "Optimize to File Size", I click that and enter 160k, and it strips out the exif, and applies the right level of jpeg compression to get the required file size :)
 
Thanks Marcel, knew it would be something simple, almost a Matty style mistake :lol: .
 
i can see the term 'doing a matty' earning some infraction points...
 
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