Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Didier. I will set to work tonight to revise the images on the site. Eric On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote: > Eric > > So far you dit it right except for the size handling. As you use > Photoshop, you might resize your pictures best inside this program. > > I don't know the english menu terms, it's somewhere in the "Image" menu > (or can also be found by right-clicking on the title bar of the document > window). After resizing, apply a moderate unsharp masking in the "Filter" > menu, see how its done here http://tinyurl.com/6yx6to - my usual setting > for that kind of job is around 75/0.2/0. > > There's another resize option within the "Save for Web" window (at the > right, below the jpg settings, there are two tabs, one for the color > palette, one for the size). I use this feature less (or never, better > said). > > If I have a series of pictures which should be resized and cropped to the > same output size (something which happens often), I create a psd file of > that size, paste and scale the large images into that file and save for > web from there. There are many other ways to do it also (like with > "photoshop actions" and more) > > Didier > > > >>Hi Didier, >> >>This is important advice for those of us contemplating putting >>together a website of our photographs. I am new to all of this. What I >>did was scan the negatives using a Nikon coolscan ad save them as high >>resolution tiff files. I then brought them into photoshop and did >>"save for the web", whereupon the files were converted to jpeg files. >>I noticed that on some images, instead of jpeg files, the computer >>saved them as giff files. How can I maximize the resolution of my >>images while at the same time have them download quicker. Thanks for >>your insight. >> >>Eric Boehm >> >>On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote: >>> Very impressive series, Eric. You captured a lot of interesting >>> personalities, and you captured them well. No need to add the brand name >>> of your camera in your post's subject line to make it more interesting! >>> >>> Didier >>> >>> ps: just a web-technical advice - you used all hi resolution images for >>> your website and then resized them with the html image size parameters. >>> Or better said, your program probably did. For instance a 3600 x 2880 >>> pixel file (10MB) is displayed as 560x448 - a picture with that >>> effective size would weight 50KB - 200KB, equal 0.5% to 2% of the hi res >>> sample. >>> >>> This is not useful in two meanings: it makes loading your website >>> significantly slower, and images resized by html look less good (because >>> they're not anti-aliased = more pixelated) than when correctly resized >>> and moderately unsharp masked, in a picture editing program (like >>> photoshop, lightroom, aperture, or many others). >>> >>> I dont know your website tool (Trellix Site Builder), it might have an >>> internal picture resizing feature. Otherwise you may use one of the >>> above mentioned apps, or another. There are tons of free little programs >>> doing that, for instance (if you have a windows based computer), >>> "PIXresizer", "Mihov Image Resizer", "Microsoft Image Resizer" (allows >>> resizing with right clicking on a picture). > > > >>>>Dear LUG members, >>>>I just set up a new webpage on street photography using the Leica. >>>>The address is: >>>>http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/ >>>>Have a look. I'd appreciate any feedback from Leica users who are >>>>street photographers. There is also a blog associated with the site. >>>>Many thanks. >>>>Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD Assistant Professor, Microbiology Department of Biological Sciences Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave. Union, NJ 07083 908-737-3654 eboehm@kean.edu Faculty Research Website: http://www.eboehm.com/ "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" (Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1973)