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I have sent some photos to a competition in a club that i am in. but they can not receive them because they are to big ie 17Mb and have asked for them to be 2meg i have Photoshop Elements 8 how do i resize them.
thanks in advance.
 
Somewhere on the club's website may be some guidelines as to file sizes and image sizes (which are related in some ways). I would hope that there are 2 sets of dimensions, a pixel size and a file size. Pixel size is usually done using PP software and may be relatively small if the judges view the images on screen as whole images (see your own screen's resolution as a guide) or could be quite big if they want to pixel peep or print reasonably large. File size is controlled at the saving end of the process and basically controls the quality. The most used file format is (as I'm sure you know) JPEG, which compresses the file size by reducing the quality. In Photoshop CS and Elements, this is done on a sliding scale from 0 - 12, with 0 giving the smallest files (but they'll look very "blocky"). Quality level 8 or better generally gives decent results - keep the "Preview" box ticked and keep an eye on the quality.
If all else fails, ask the competition secretary of the club what they recommend - he/she should be able to tell you exactly what they expect.
 
Hi All thanks for the feed back. I always take my photos in Jpeg. I have managed to get my photo resized using the youtube video the. The club that i want to send my photos to asks them to be sent either 1 or 2 meg in size can any one tell me how manny Pixels are in these sizes and what does KB mean in size. Also does the software that Realspeed recommends downloads to the Mac.
I am sorry to go on but i am getting old and my brain does not work very well
 
"2 Meg" is meaningless unless they also tell you which parameter is needed. A 2 meg(a pixel) image will be a lot different to a 2 meg(a byte) file. My guess would be that they want a relatively small file to work with, so they probably want a 2 MegaByte (often expressed as MB) file.

Your D90 will give you 4,288 × 2,848 (12.3 effective megapixels) but I'm not sure what size files it will give you straight out of the camera - my guess would be 4-8 MB files (based on my old D200's large fine JPEG file sizes). A 4 MB file straight out of the camera can be saved (using Photoshop Elements) at quality 10 on the slider (which still gives plenty of quality) giving a file of 1.6 MB - well under your club's requirement! If my maths is any good, that's 40% of the original file size, so if you have an original file of 10 MB, it'll shrink to around 4 MB using the same setting and further quality reduction will reduce the file size even further. If you also resize the actual image (in terms of Mega Pixels [or MP]), it shouldn't be difficult to get a file that's big enough to judge (in terms of MP) but small enough to transfer easily (in terms of MB).

Now to explain MB, KB etc... The first letter denotes the multiplying factor - M = Mega = 1,000,000 while K = Kilo = 1,000 (the actual numbers are slightly different when talking about Bytes [the "B"] but it's close enough for government work!) and the case is important - M - Mega but m = milli... The second letter denotes the units B = Bytes and is a measure of file size while P (in this context) = Pixels, which are Pi(x)cture Elements - not usually visible to the naked eye but if you zoom right into an image at 400% in an editing programme, you'll see them as individual squares of colour.

Not sure if Realspeed's recommended software downloads to Macs and it's not a package I've used. There are many options as far as software goes ranging from free to rather expensive. I would use whatever you know best.
 
thanks for the prompt reply i am going to ask the club if they can tell me what parameter they want
 
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