Posted by Lance Warley on June 20, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Hi, everyone. This is my first post as a member. My heartfelt thanks to Tom Webster for getting me here.
I live in south Florida near three wetlands that some of you may know - Wakodahatchee, Green Cay, and Loxahatchee. We've had some Black-bellied Whistling-ducks lately.
Please be frank with your critiques, because I definitely want to improve.
btw, I didn't crop the original camera photo at all, so it was quite large (4.2 mg from an XTi). When I used Photoshop's Save for Web to get it to 720/200kb, it definitely degraded. Any tips on resizing would be appreciated..
It certainly looks good to my eyes. Maybe a tad bit brighter would improve it slightly, but thats just me.
Instead of using the "Save for Web" feature, just use "Save As" choose jpeg and then the degree of compression you prefer. As you use this compression slider and preview the results, it will give you the final image size as well. Choose the best combination of image quality/image size tradeoff for your intended use. The more detail in the image, the more difficult it will be to get under the 200kb limit at 720px. I would rather post at 600-640 pixels with less compression than 720 with obvious visible compression.
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6 repliesI live in south Florida near three wetlands that some of you may know - Wakodahatchee, Green Cay, and Loxahatchee. We've had some Black-bellied Whistling-ducks lately.
Please be frank with your critiques, because I definitely want to improve.
btw, I didn't crop the original camera photo at all, so it was quite large (4.2 mg from an XTi). When I used Photoshop's Save for Web to get it to 720/200kb, it definitely degraded. Any tips on resizing would be appreciated..
It certainly looks good to my eyes. Maybe a tad bit brighter would improve it slightly, but thats just me.
Instead of using the "Save for Web" feature, just use "Save As" choose jpeg and then the degree of compression you prefer. As you use this compression slider and preview the results, it will give you the final image size as well. Choose the best combination of image quality/image size tradeoff for your intended use. The more detail in the image, the more difficult it will be to get under the 200kb limit at 720px. I would rather post at 600-640 pixels with less compression than 720 with obvious visible compression.
Looking forward to seeing you in the fall!
Manually resize to your web size using "bicubic sharper". That will make the resulting image much more crisp. Then save it as Richard suggests.
Beautiful bird BTW.
Richard, I wish it was tomorrow.