[Leica] New Leica Website

[leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

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