Reducing picture size

[The_Moaner]

What I normally do (which suits me) is this.
I just use the crop tool in CRAW, then into photoshop. After Manipulation I save.
If I want to print I open the print and resize (shrink) my image in the print box to the size I want printed. That way I lose no pixels or resolution and my original image stays the same size always.

If I want to Resize for comp or Web I go to Image Size and make sure box at bottom is unticked and chose 300ppi if it's 240, then I tick the box and if Portrait I chose 1050, if Landscape I chose 1400. Of course if for Web I might chose smaller. Then I'll Save As. That keeps my full Exif intact.

I do have a Batch Resizer but when it is finished resizeing it saves the images in 72ppi of which is No Good for me. Anyone know of a Good Batch resizer that keeps the 300ppi. ?
Have Fun Folks.

[cosmicma]

for batch resizing you could easily make an action up in photoshop

there seems to be quite a few different ways to resize an image that people use
most of the time the sole purpose of resizing an image is to display your photo on the web somwhere
if sites like WAB only allow you to display images uploaded to their site obviously it would need resizing before upload
some free image display programs will do this at the touch of the mouse and save them out at there new size but most of these type of programs will strip the EXIF
the only reliable way i have found is using photosop image resize it will resize and add slight sharpening in one swoop AND keep all EXIF data intact which is important to me

another lazy way if unlike WAB you can link to a photo using flicker and the like the image hosting site photobucket can come in handy
photobucket will allow you to upload a photo of any dimention and will automaticly reduce the image size to whatever you specify ( 800 x 600, 1280 x 1024 etc.. ) there is an option menu on the upload page
using photobucket this way also keeps the EXIF intact

might be common knowledge to most but i thought it was worth a mention

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by cosmicma

.......... but most of these type of programs will strip the EXIF
the only reliable way i have found is using photosop image resize it will resize and add slight sharpening in one swoop AND keep all EXIF data intact which is important to me
...............

Irfanview has the simple choice 'retain original exif data' or not! I suspect that most serious programmes have these alternatives somewhere ... one problem with a lot of photo programmes is that there are so many options that it's dificult to know where to start!

[cosmicma]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Irfanview has the simple choice 'retain original exif data' or not! I suspect that most serious programmes have these alternatives somewhere ... one problem with a lot of photo programmes is that there are so many options that it's dificult to know where to start!

just had another look at infranview it looks like it has improoved since the last time i used it
in previous editions although the option was ticked to keep the EXIF it would still end up stripping it it's one of the reasons i stopped using it, well that and the fact it had a nasty habit of locking up
it was a while ago though

iv'e tried a number of the freeware viewers over the years but seem to have settled with picasa for now but i only use it as a viewer

with the speed of pc's ever increasing it's now nigh on as quick loading photoshop as it is a viewer so i tend to do everything within that now even something as simple as a resize

[lord-paul]

I have always used Easythumbnails from Easy Thumbnails Software -- Free thumbnail utility from Fookes Software

You can handle either a single file or a complete folder.

I have found if very easy to use.

[The_Moaner]

I shall have a look at that resizer lord-Paul. Thanks.

Biggest problem or Confusion is that some get the Resize and Crop mixed up. They think it is one and the same.

so they pop into photoshop or elements etc. then chose the crop tool and put in the sizes in pixels or cm not realiseing that the size becomes a 2" x 4" (small) They then go and use that to print an 8x10 or larger and find it is to pixelated. They then start wondering what they did wrong.

I use inches but I only ever put 11 x 14" in crop box, if that is what I really want. An exact size. 100% of my crop is done in CRAW or Lightroom. If I need to crop some sky out etc, after, I just use the crop tool loosely.
I then resize in the print box but do not save when finished.

All the above can be quite confuseing for lots of people. Was confusing for me when I started out.
Off now to look at that resizeing progy.
Thanks

[lord-paul]

Wondering how you found the easythumb program?

[The_Moaner]

Hi Lord-Paul
In all Honesty I forgot to download that program to try it.
I shall go ahead and have a look at it..
regards---Dennis

[The_Moaner]

Just downloaded "Easy Thumbnails" and installed it.
Tried it on one image and put the size in the box 1400--1050.
The image is in 240ppi.
I did a resize and it was done at the 1050 portrait size with the top at correct size of 687. so that is 687x1050 at 240ppi. Nice to see a program keeping it's ppi as original.
Not sure yet if it saves it as a "sRGB". (NO it does not). Photoshop says it does not have an embedded RGB profile. Pity that as I need a sRGB profile when resized. So when I have done my resizeing it looks like I must open in PS and do a change to sRGB, which defeats what I want.
Pity that, as it does everything else correct.

[Alan Hewitt]

For those using Photoshop I would recommend a plug in called Web Presenter Pro from the Fred Miranda website. I do not know if it works in Elements or not.

I use this resizing plug in to create an internet version in after I have cropped and completed all other edits. I find the resulting resized image to sharpen much more effectively than when resized using the normal Photoshop image resize method.

Alan
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