Re: what size should i resize my images

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Hello,


I did sports photography recently for a friends football team so now I could send in the images for his football website and local paper but just curious what size should i shrink them to in photoshop as there at there max at moment in jpeg which is huge, is there a giving rule of size for scaling down.

Also, can I resize all at once or individually resize in photoshop pls help


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A lot of people use Lightroom to batch process their photos. Once you've edited them you can export and at that point you can resize in terms of actual and file size, as well as adding any watermarks.

You can also do the same with Faststone resizer http://www.faststone.org/ which is free :)

If I'm creating images for facebook/photobucket or just general web use, I resize so the longest edge is 2000px and the filesize is 150kb.

There's not much visual difference on-screen and it allows for fast uploading/sharing.
 
In Elements you can go "File", "Process Multiple Files" and then choose the size you want them resized to. I will generally resize to 600 pixels which is fine for web / screen based viewing
 
I resize mine in lightroom and send them off to the local paper at 1000 pixels on the longest side. This has been good enough for them to take up half a page in the paper. The club I photograph get them at 600 pixels on the longest size for including them on their website. I don't do any size restrictions but I noticed a Pro doing this when I was sat next to him recently after a game. Maybe I should?

Dave.
 
Russ77 said:
A lot of people use Lightroom to batch process their photos. Once you've edited them you can export and at that point you can resize in terms of actual and file size, as well as adding any watermarks.

You can also do the same with Faststone resizer http://www.faststone.org/ which is free :)

If I'm creating images for facebook/photobucket or just general web use, I resize so the longest edge is 2000px and the filesize is 150kb.

There's not much visual difference on-screen and it allows for fast uploading/sharing.
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Hi,

If I have some images cropped in lightroom which batch file size should I use as some cropped be different and could end up stretched is there a setting around this...

Thanks for your entitial response
 
shane1980 said:
Hi,

If I have some images cropped in lightroom which batch file size should I use as some cropped be different and could end up stretched is there a setting around this...

Thanks for your entitial response
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You should find a setting in there that sets the size based on the longest side. Using this will keep them in the same proportions as the original.

Dave
 
If they're for newsprint, I'd be submitting a minimum of 2500px long side (dependant on crop) at around 70% compression in LR or PS Jpeg 8. That should give you a file size of roughly 800Kb-1.2Mb depending on the image.
 
DemiLion said:
If they're for newsprint, I'd be submitting a minimum of 2500px long side (dependant on crop) at around 70% compression in LR or PS Jpeg 8. That should give you a file size of roughly 800Kb-1.2Mb depending on the image.
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Hi,

If there for only web use eg websites or facebook what you consider

Thanks for help
 
tophatter said:
You should find a setting in there that sets the size based on the longest side. Using this will keep them in the same proportions as the original.

Dave
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I heard of this longest side but can't understand it can you explain it simple please

Is it like using this longest side feature it won't have effect on my different sized images in re to stretching etc..

Thanks
 
Longest side means it makes the longest side to what ever you set it at, so if you retain the 3:2 dimensions it will make the outputted image will retain that shape and not get streached or squashed it resizes the other side to maintain the correct image shape.

and for what its worth I resize for facebook to 720px on the longest side and for almost everything else 2500.
 
Russ77 said:
If I'm creating images for facebook/photobucket or just general web use, I resize so the longest edge is 2000px and the filesize is 150kb.

There's not much visual difference on-screen and it allows for fast uploading/sharing.
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This seems a little small for 2000px??
 
I rarely print anything to be honest, if I do I export with only a 3MB filesize restriction.

Used to export at 800px but Facebook used to make the images look terrible, someone said to try 2000px and 72dpi and it's a lot better.
 
An agency I send shots to has a specification of 3000-3500 px on the long side, saved at 300dpi in JPG format at level 10 (for Lightroom users save at 80%). This generally gives a file size under 2mb.

For the web, if I dont know the size that's required I'll generally send at about 1500px long side , saved at level 8. This should be enough for a webmaster to resize while keeping reasonable quality.
 
I send to papers at 7x5 @ 300ppi which is 2100x1500px and this is big enough for a double page spread in a tabloid newspaper, newsprint is only printed at 72dpi so they can print 29 inch by 21 inch at the size i send in.
 
I send 2000px long side at 250dpi and quality 60% (in Lightroom). Makes a picture of approx 400-500kb which sends nice & fast. No problem getting big spreads in the papers with that size.
 
One other thing I noticed about Lightroom for example if you wanna resize images we say 8x10 in the export and save them there not actually that size when I import to photoshop there different size???
 
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