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Subject: [Leica] New Leica Website
From: eboehmjr at gmail.com (Eric Boehm, Jr)
Date: Mon Jul 7 13:04:45 2008
References: <36e5c0b10807061958t6d53c96aqf8a57974471281bf@mail.gmail.com> <20080707184306.53A505847ED@smtp1.nine.ch> <36e5c0b10807071222v1a8fa9a8ra2a79264d716aa75@mail.gmail.com> <20080707195454.252E958496A@smtp1.nine.ch>

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
>
>
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