Posted by Betsy Bowen on March 6, 2010 at 10:13 PM
I am totally excited to have found this website! I was at the Seabird Sanctuary last weekend and a woman there told me about it! But.... I am definately having problems. I am a beginner photographer, and when I resize my photos in the photoshop elements 7 program, they become very grainey looking and sharpening or not doesn't help. Any suggestions? Here is my latest attempt at resizing. I took it with my canon rebel xt with a 400 zoom lens.
Thanks!
Betsy
Posted by David Bostedo on March 6, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Betsy - It may help if you mentioned what steps you are taking to re-size. Things getting "grainy" would possibly seem to me that you're having to use too much JPG compression (the quality set very low). The picture above actually looks OK to me from a re-sizing point of view - I don't see any obvious issues.
Basically, you can resize using the "Image Size" function, and then save it. Or you can use the "Save for Web and Devices" which could result in getting the file size down easier with less compression.
Posted by Betsy Bowen on March 6, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Thank you for your suggestions. I will try them. When I resized my photo, I resized it using the suggestions to prepare photos to post in the instructions. I clicked on Image>Resize>Image Size, and when the dialog box came up I made to longest side 720 pixels and chose "bicubic" for resample. When saving photo also have to make sure photo is under 200 kb?
Posted by Betsy Bowen on March 6, 2010 at 11:50 PM
I tried using the "Save for Web". Thanks. I think it worked!
Posted by Dan Borzynski on March 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM
For what it might be worth, I'm really not seeing any resizing issues with your photo as well.
The sharpening procedure you mention above is also correct - it certainly shouldn't lead to the problems you described.
Let's back up a step. Not having any idea of what you knowledge of digital is, I'm going to assume it is low. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong What resolution do you have your monitor set at and are you viewing the image at something larger than 100%? If you have a monitor that can display 1400 to 1600 pixels across, and after resizing the image you have things set up so that it takes up the entire screen, rather than 720 of those 1400 pixels, almost any image is going to look really bad. This would certainly lead to what you are describing.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on March 7, 2010 at 12:55 AM
Betsey, what resolution setting is your camera set to? I'm going to assume you have it set to one of the JPEG settings, and not RAW. If you would look on your camera's menu and post back, that would also be helpful. Btw, for your serious photographic work, you absolutely want to shoot RAW format, but there is some extra work processing the image, which we can assist you with. If you already shoot RAW and know what all that entails, that's fine, I'll go crawl back under my rock.
Hi Betsey, If you are resizing for posting here just choose resize and then percent. Depending on your camera choose between 20 and 30% then right click the saved photo and look at properties as long as it is under 200 kb you can post it. By camera is 14 mpixels and most of my stuff fits around the 20% mark...
Posted by Richard Ditch on March 7, 2010 at 11:16 AM
Read the File Size Basics section of this article on my web site.
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9 repliesThanks!
Betsy
Basically, you can resize using the "Image Size" function, and then save it. Or you can use the "Save for Web and Devices" which could result in getting the file size down easier with less compression.
The sharpening procedure you mention above is also correct - it certainly shouldn't lead to the problems you described.
Let's back up a step. Not having any idea of what you knowledge of digital is, I'm going to assume it is low. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong