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Can you tell me how you resize your photos for your blog?

Posted by CreativeJunkie • 6/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: photoshop, resize photos

I'm having a hard time resizing my photos for my blog and keeping them around 60 KB. I think it's because my new P&S camera has more pixels than my old camera and thus, the files are larger.

Right out of the camera, my photos are at 180 dpi resolution and around 4 MB each. I use Photoshop to resize them and this is what I do:

I go under Image>Image size and, with scale styles, constrain proportions and resample checked, I hit Auto>Draft which changes my resolution to 72 and the height/width accordingly.

Then I change the width to 500 pixels.

Then I go under File>Save for Web, choose JPEG, click Optimize and slide the quality slider down to around 75-80 so that I still have high quality.

But 90% of the time, my file size is around 95-105 KB.

If I have my quality setting down to around 50-60, won't my photos turn out fuzzy? But I'm not sure how else to get my file size down.

I'm writing a post right now with 11 photos in it ... it will be more than 1 MB of photos in it and I'm worried about load times.

User Comments

6/02/09

irtiza104

try and see if it turns out fuzzy or not...

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6/02/09

crpitt

I use flickr, so can chose different photo size options from there.

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6/02/09

dbowles1017

save as a gif

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1. 6/02/09
  
  trailofpen
  
  Do not save as a GIF if you are taking photos. GIFs should primarily be used for images with solid colors and no shades, aka logos and design graphics. Never save regular photos as GIFs as they will be much larger files than JPEGs.
6/02/09

Friday13

I resize photos with the GIMP. They're usually 800*600 (or 600*800 if vertical). I'll usually have to do some noise removal (being a point-&-shoot camera) and color enhancement first.

As for saving the files, I adjust the quality slider and try to keep them under 150kb without looking bad (I can easily notice JPEG artifacts), and use thumbnails for the post so as to not kill dialup connections.

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6/02/09

weblogian

Click here www.thecreativejunkie.com/wp-admin/options-media.php

Set The desire size. Than upload image from your post Editor and select the size format you want for your blog post. It looks better for me giving caption title to images.

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6/02/09

BPWebNews

I use MS Image Composer (free download at www.download.com/Image-Composer/3000-12511_4-10561244.html )
which has an option to create a version 'for the web' --- reducing the file size within your pixel width/length.

In other words two photos can be the same screen size but different file sizes. You can cut sizes in half without losing resolution. Take a look.
1. Your original image is 55KB

2. The one I saved from Image composer is 23 KB

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6/02/09

coolbuster

Here's an easy way:

1. Download and install PhotoFiltre (free) photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm

2. Go to Image > Image size.

3. Adjust the resolution to 10 and width to 400 and click Ok.

The size is reduced but the image quality remains.

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6/02/09

roentarre

For websize images, decrease your dpi resolution to 72 and makes the dimension for 400 pixel for the width

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6/02/09

techhgyan

Use irfan view for that.It will reduce the size of your images

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6/03/09

CreativeJunkie

Thank you everyone - I appreciate all of your help!

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6/11/09

CreativeJunkie

I thought I'd revisit this thread and let you know what I wound up doing:

I checked out all of your suggestions, but wound up downloading a program called Pixresizer (www.snapfiles.com/get/pixresizer.html) which has worked beautifully.

I resized a photo in Pixresizer and it was approx 53 KB. I resized the same photo in Photoshop and it was approx 98 KB. Same high quality.

I never thought I'd find something that worked better than Photoshop, but I did!

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1. 6/12/09
  
  timethief
  
  Thanks for sharing that free resource. Here are some other free optimization and resizing alternatives:
  Irfanview www.irfanview.com/
  Picasa www.picasa.com/
  GIMP www.gimp.org/
  Photofiltre www.photofiltre.com/
  FastStone www.faststone.org/
  Pixia park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/