Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/19

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Subject: [Leica] PAW....More "signs of the..." and "autumn sunset" B&W
From: nicholsj at edge.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri Nov 19 09:16:07 2004

Hi Ken,

I concur with Nathan.  That is essentially the same process that I use.  I
look to see that the final image size is somewhere around 5x7 inches, which
is a good size for most monitors.  It works for me.

Jim Nichols
nicholsj@edge.net 


> [Original Message]
> From: <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: 11/19/2004 8:19:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW....More "signs of the..." and "autumn sunset" B&W
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> This is how I size my image:
>
> If the image is horizontal (landscape), then I set the long side to 750 
> pixels, letting the height fall where it may (usually around 500 
> pixels). I use the Image Size. I then save the image as JPEG, setting 
> the quality setting of 8 or 9 so as to arrive at a file size of between 
> 100 and 200 kb.
>
> If the image is vertical (portrait), the procedure is the same except 
> that I set the height to 600 pixels, which means that the width becomes 
> around 400 pixels, and so the file size becomes somewhat smaller than 
> with a horizontal image.
>
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Almere, Netherlands
> http://www.nathanfoto.com
> http://www.fotosevilla.com
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: Kenneth Frazier <kennybod@mac.com>
> Datum: vrijdag, november 19, 2004 12:54 pm
> Onderwerp: Re: [Leica] PAW....More "signs of the..." and "autumn 
> sunset" B&W
>
> > >  You
> > > may want to reduce your file sizes a bit--the color shot is over 600
> > kb 
> > > for a 365x500 pixel image--that is about 10 times of what it should
> > be.
> > 
> > Thanks for the comments, and for the advice.  I'm still learning 
> > how to
> > use PS (Elements, that is) to get the file resized.
> > 
> > Question:  When resizing in PS for the web, what is a good setting?
> > 
> > Ken
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