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How do I PP (Elements 10) a picture (RAW) to produce a jpg for a web site that still retains quality (on a website) but doesn't retain enough quality to enable a viewer to copy'n'paste the image and be able to print it.

I don't mind people copying for use on Facebook but if they want a printed copy then they need to pay for it :naughty:
 
boliston said:
I'd go with 1024 pixels on the long edge for web only use as that will only produce a small print about 3.5" at 300dpi
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Would have to disagree with this one, when I was running a photo competition for a charity a couple of years ago I had some very small pictures - one was about 500 px I think on the longest edge and I got a nice 8 x 10 from it which the winning entrants got as prizes.

Photographers care about quality, people who want the picture just care about what it contains and if it is on the web and the want it they will print it off regardless of watermarks, quality or anything else.
 
Kerioak said:
Would have to disagree with this one, when I was running a photo competition for a charity a couple of years ago I had some very small pictures - one was about 500 px I think on the longest edge and I got a nice 8 x 10 from it which the winning entrants got as prizes.

Photographers care about quality, people who want the picture just care about what it contains and if it is on the web and the want it they will print it off regardless of watermarks, quality or anything else.
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Make sure it's 72 dpi and make it 800 on the longest edge :)
 
Kerioak said:
Would have to disagree with this one, when I was running a photo competition for a charity a couple of years ago I had some very small pictures - one was about 500 px I think on the longest edge and I got a nice 8 x 10 from it which the winning entrants got as prizes.

Photographers care about quality, people who want the picture just care about what it contains and if it is on the web and the want it they will print it off regardless of watermarks, quality or anything else.
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I argree, thats too big, I'd go for about 500-600 ish, certainly no bigger if your worried about people printing them.
 
Hmmm, some varying answers there! but thanks.

I used the MS Power Toy Resize and got them down to less than 100K per file....I can't believe you could get a printable image out of that but I'm sure someone will try. Still look good on the website (image quality rather than me blowing my own trumpet of how good my pics are!).
 
I've had perfectly printable 10" x 8" images from 720pixel highly compressed facebook photos (they were 100kBytes in size).

Setting the DPI in the file is irrelevant as it can be very easily overridden.

The only way to be sure people don't print them is to slap a big watermark across them.
 
Hmmm....I may not have achieved what I wanted to do - I suspect there isn't a way around it other than a dirty watermark.

I'll have to print the low-res and high-res pic and see what the difference is.
 
The best way to process images for webuse is to make them exactly the size you need for the web page (exact pixel dimensions for the space in which the image will be shown).

Then use the save for web export in photoshop. Using the 2up view seeing the original and the revised file, use the settings on the right to select the file type (jpg/gif) and lower the quality till the file is still visually appealing and matches the left hand image as closely as possible. There is an option in later versions of PS to keep the copyright and creator data within the image, so when it's published at least that information is still saved with the file. You will find that you can usually get file sizes down to 40k with good readability.
 
The best way to process images for webuse is to make them exactly the size you need for the web page (exact pixel dimensions for the space in which the image will be shown).
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all to often people make large size for web , only to have the tags reduce the size for actual use
 
OrinB said:
The best way to process images for webuse is to make them exactly the size you need for the web page (exact pixel dimensions for the space in which the image will be shown).

Then use the save for web export in photoshop. Using the 2up view seeing the original and the revised file, use the settings on the right to select the file type (jpg/gif) and lower the quality till the file is still visually appealing and matches the left hand image as closely as possible. There is an option in later versions of PS to keep the copyright and creator data within the image, so when it's published at least that information is still saved with the file. You will find that you can usually get file sizes down to 40k with good readability.
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I've only got Elements but I know some of those option are there so I'll have another play. Thanks for the step by step :thumbs:
 
i have an old version of elements V7 and it has "save for web" what version of elements do you have ?
 
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