Re: Sizing images for the web
2006-02-07 by Siobhan McClory
Hi, I am working on re-sizing images for the web and am having some difficulty Which I am hoping some-one can advise me on. A number of you gave me some very helpful feedback which I followed and then ran into a conflict. The company that I am working with apparently uses up-load software that essentially does what PS does and they therefore asked that I just re-size the images at 500 pixels high using the following method. Using the image size in PS, check the boxes: Scale styles/constrain proportions/resample image and change the pixel height to 500. Voila, the resulting image after said adjustments fell as follows: ( Doc size: 2.31x1.52 at 329 res/761x500 pixels) While it all seemed easy enough I had sincere doubts about the resulting image. When I checked it on the web, it looked dreadful, flat as a pancake and bore no resemblance to the image on my screen. Although I have tremendous faith in who I am working with re: web technical stuff, I am not too sure about the actual imaging aspect of it. I have far more faith in the group over here. So, it would be wonderful if some-one could point me in the right direction. Or, the question may be is the 500 pixel high requirement ridiculous. The one thing I did notice was that the file size requirement just had to be under 2MB. The methodology for getting there was just suggested as the easiest especially as their software did what P.S. Did and that should probably not be done twice. My images are of varying sizes therefore surely just using the set 500 H pixel change on everything is going to result in widely divergent results. Thanks for any guidance. Siobhan