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Garry Black Photography |
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OTTAWA PHOTGRAPHY WORKSHOP |
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Resizing Photos | |
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Step 1 - Open the image you want to have critiqued. It's important that you don't want any of the following changes that you will be doing here to affect your high resolution photo, so you have a couple of choices. (A) Make a copy of the image. Choose File>Duplicate Image (Elements) or Image>Duplicate (CS versions) Close your original image, and you will be working on a file named "originalfilename copy". (B) Make all the following adjustments and then as a final step rename the image by File>Save As in Step 5 | |
| Step 2 - Photos for projection or for the web must be in 8-bit mode and in sRGB color space. If you've originally saved your image in 16-bit mode and in a wide gamut color space like Adobe RGB (which is the recommended settings), the what needs to be done is to change the bit depth and color mode of the image to the following settings. | |
| Go to Image>Mode and see if 8 Bits/Channel is checked or not. If it is not checked, then choose 8 Bits/Channel to change the bit depth from 16 bit. If the image is already in 8 bit, then the 8 Bit/Channel setting will be grayed out. | |
| Now go to Image>Convert Color Profile>Apply sRGB Profile to get your photo into the best color space for projection and also the web. | |
| Step 3 - Now you will resize the image. The images can be no larger than 1200 pixels in the longest dimension. So if you have a horizontal photo, the size would be 1200 (wide) x 800 (high). | |
| Go to Image>Resize > Image Size. Be sure to check the Resample Image checkbox and select Bicubic as the sampling method (Scale Styles will likely be automatically selected as well which is fine). | |
| In the Image Size dialog box first change the Resolution setting to 72 pixels per inch. | |
| Now under Pixels Dimensions, change either the Width or the Height, whichever dimension is longest, to 1200 pixels. Click OK. Your image will shrink down very small. To see the photo larger for the next step press the Actual Pixels button in the upper left hand corner of the program. | |
| Step 4 - Now you will sharpen the image, you will need to know exactly what it will look like, that's why it's important to look at the image at the Actual Pixels view. There are numerous ways to sharpen images in Elements. The easiest method is to go to Enhance>Auto Sharpen. This method does a decent job for most photos. | |
| Step 5 - The last step is to save your image. Go to File>Save and name your file and make sure you save the image in JPEG format. Be sure the ICC Profile box is checked (should be sRGB IEC61966-2.1). Click Save | |
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A JPEG Options dialog box will come up. Use a Quality setting of between 8 to 10 and for Format Options, select Baseline ("Standard"). Click OK |
