Sizing for posting [Archive] - BirdPhotographers.net

Victor Soares

01-04-2009, 12:35 AM

Hi All,

I have never had this problem before so I don't know what to do to correct it. I want to post a photo that I took of a bird perched on an animal skin. However, the image is large (lots of Megs) and when I reduce it to 800 wide and quality 10, I still have an image that is 388kb (too large to post). I need to reduce the quality to 2 (very low) in order to get it to 200kB. Any ideas on how to reduce the image size without compromising on quality.

Thanks
Vic

Charles Glatzer

01-04-2009, 04:10 PM

You are first resizing the image to 800 px @ 72 dpi, and then trying to save as jpeg...yes?

Chas

Alfred Forns

01-04-2009, 06:23 PM

Hi Victor Don't use save as but use save for web since you can specify the size for the files. There is a tutorial in educational resources which will guide you step by step !!! ..... if not pm !!!

... suggestion by Chas should also work just fine !!

Chris Ober

01-04-2009, 08:19 PM

Here's the link to the post Al mentioned: http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=839

And another:
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15654