Reducing image size for email

[Carl one]

I am not very computer literate and am new to PSE 5. How do I reduce the demensions of an image for email. Everything else is ok so far but I just cannot figgure out how to reduce the image size. Thank you. Carl:confused:

[Wendy]

Hi Carl ...

I tend to use save for Web ...

Resize using Save for Web:

Open your image then do File>Save for Web
When the Save for Web dialogue box come up there is a section over on the bottom right hand side where you can change the pixels size (see A) if you tick Constrain Proportions then you only need to change the longest side then just click on Apply. Next take a look at the new size (B) ... if it is still too big then use the quality slider (C) until the size is OK

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1oU339hS3qhxM5k9hXDdeC21dpFM0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1oU339hS3qhxM5k9hXDdeC21dpFM0)

Hope this helps :)

Wendy

[ljameso1]

1st make a duplicate so don't change your original. Either save for web under file or go to image size>resize. Check constrain proportions and change pixels/inch to 72. 72 ppi is what monitor screens display at, so you don't need a larger image. Save as a flattened jpeg and attach to email. Can even do a picture package of several different pics and resize the package as above.
Linda

[jlwilm]

Hi Carl,

This suggestion is based Windows XP/PSE4 version that I am running,

In my opinion, the best place to do it from is from the Organizer using the Share feature (top bar). Click it and the first option it will give you is one for Email. It will let you determine how the images are sent (attachments, embedded photos, etc). I prefer individual attachments and this option gives you a sliding size bar for your emailed attachments. Usually, about 100Kb is more than adequate for showing off photos, but you can ramp up the size to maximum. If your friends are on dial up they will be much happier if you send some 100Kb pictures, very annoyed if you start sending 1Mb pictures.

This connects up with your installed email program and you are off to the races. Photoshop lets you put in favorites in a quick and dirty email list. You can build it there or click NEXT and it should show you your email ready to send and add/subtract email addresses.

The same option is available from the editor under File, Attach to Email. The nice thing with the organizer is that you can tag the 3 or 4 images you want to send, select that tag, then the images and quickly get the package together, It really depends on how much you have in your organizer and how far apart physically the images are.

Both of these options do not require that you save smaller versions of your pictures to facilitate emailing.

John

[Carl one]

Hi Wendy, Ijaneso1 & Jlwilm. I thank ea of you for your reply and instructions.
1st let tell you I shoot everything in the raw format, 3264W X 2448H.
Wendy, I tried the save for web & recieved a msg telling me the images was to large & if I continued the image would possibly get messed up.

Ijaneso1, I followed your instructions and things work fair. I cropped two images and they were suspossed to reduce in size befor saving the changes.

I will continue to work on this and will inform you of the results.

Thanks again for the info. Carl: rolleyes:

[kimi_boo]

Carl, when I use save for web I get the same message. I just keep going anyway and it works fine. To send in an e-mail I tend to make my largest size around 700 pixels.

[Wendy]

Hi Carl ...

You do get that message whenever you use Save for Web with a large sized file ... but as Kimi said if you ignore it then it works anyway (basically its telling you that it wont work as fast as it should)

Wendy :)

[Chuck S.]

Save for Web in Elements and Photoshop at least through CS2 didn't contemplate the fact that digital cameras would go above 7 megapixels in image size coming out of the camera - I get that message for every image from my 8 MP and 10 MP cameras. On my old computer, with its 512 MB of RAM, the Save for Web process for large images was painfully slow; the new computers with more RAM seem to manage it pretty well. I haven't loaded CS3 yet to see if the nag message is gone.

On another note, I viewed a podcast tutorial from Radiant Vista on sizing for the web that indicated you should downsize first using Image Resize rather than simply changing the size in Save for Web. The rationale was that with Image Resize you can control the resampling with Bicubic Sharper (I think that's the one they recommended) while Save for Web just simply throws away pixels without performing any special algorithm. I haven't tried it, though - it's so simple to just use Save for Web...

[Wendy]

Hi Chuck ...

I did try it but to be honest I couldn't see any difference ... mind you I only tend to use Save for Web for things like sending by email or posting on forums :)

Wendy

[Chuck S.]

I'm with you, Wendy - if you're going to throw away 90+% of the pixels anyway, will it really make any discernible difference in what's left? Actually, I think it's pretty amazing how much detail you can still view in an image that's only 700 pixels by 525 pixels.

[Wendy]

Hi Chuck ...

It amazes me too ... what were all those other pixels doing in there :) :)


Wendy