I was asked to take photos in my girl's school of all the decorated easter eggs the pupils did for their website. I've taken the photos but how should I edit them size wise. Usually I just edit to the size of the image. I'll be using CS5, is it just a case of saving for web? (can't remember if CS5 has got that) or change the file size?
kirsty if they havent named a size that they want them then i would remove the exif info when u save to make the file size smaller , just my oppinion as i doubt theinfowould be needed by them anyways .......if u dont have the save for web option do this ..... save as - then click options when the box comes up and untick save exif info ......it wont change size of pic but will reduce the file size as i understand it ....... well thats how i do it on psp haha x
Argh. I am so clueless with CS5. I can't see a way to change size. Will need to look properly. There is a save for web and devices but when I clicked it It said "the image exceeds the size Save for web and devices was designed for. You may experience out of memory errors and slow performance."
Open all the files needing resized and doing any editing needed, keep them all open or save them all in the same place.
Go to File>Scripts>Image processor
You can specify a folder to save to, or save over the original files and pick the size you need, constrained to fit by width and height, if they need thumbnails as well you can do a thumbnail set too the same way...
Image quality between 6-8 gives reasonable results with small files, at eight there's little visible degradation at all...
Flamez is right about removing EXIF info, it doesn't really affect file sizes too much but not having it on the image means if someone steals it you have a really simple way to prove it's yours...
Right, so far all I've done is cropping as with a lot of the shots there's lots of info around the subjects not needed so some are majorly cropped and some have little cropping done. I usually keep all my cropping to 10x8 or 7x5 sizes. Then I'm brightening them up as for some reason all my shots end up dark even though the light meter says they're ok when I'm shooting. Never understood that.
Also I've noticed when saving they seem to be saved at around 4.2M which is my major cropped ones. I have it set to save at max 12M.
Oh as much as I love taking pictures, this is the part I'm totally clueless about. I normally just keep everything to the minimum as it's so much easier.
@killerjackalope Adam. Had a look at the image processor and it looks great and easy to use. Should I edit the shots to how I want them, then save them into the folder I want them in (That's what I've been doing image by image.) Then go into Image processor and do what you said? Then I can do that to all the images in the folder at once?
Have I just went through a long winded way of doing this so far. I've only done a handful of photos so far so I can start from scratch no problem.
Select the one with all your edits as your source folder, you can save as same image or you can make a new empty folder and tell it to save them there, personally I make the extra folder, so I have the full size edits should I need them...
When you save them it'll make a subfolder called jpeg or whatever format you save as... They'll be in there.
Ok will do. And that way the school can choose for themselves what to do with them whether to go with the edits or the subfolder. Thanks @killerjackalope
If you save for web, half of your colors will be gone! Save for web is for animated gifs and such that need to be compressed. If you want the files sizes to be smaller, when you do save as and then you see quality, just choose a lower quality. I recommend not going below 5. :-)
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Go to File>Scripts>Image processor
You can specify a folder to save to, or save over the original files and pick the size you need, constrained to fit by width and height, if they need thumbnails as well you can do a thumbnail set too the same way...
Image quality between 6-8 gives reasonable results with small files, at eight there's little visible degradation at all...
Flamez is right about removing EXIF info, it doesn't really affect file sizes too much but not having it on the image means if someone steals it you have a really simple way to prove it's yours...
Also I've noticed when saving they seem to be saved at around 4.2M which is my major cropped ones. I have it set to save at max 12M.
Oh as much as I love taking pictures, this is the part I'm totally clueless about. I normally just keep everything to the minimum as it's so much easier.
@killerjackalope Adam. Had a look at the image processor and it looks great and easy to use. Should I edit the shots to how I want them, then save them into the folder I want them in (That's what I've been doing image by image.) Then go into Image processor and do what you said? Then I can do that to all the images in the folder at once?
Have I just went through a long winded way of doing this so far. I've only done a handful of photos so far so I can start from scratch no problem.
When you save them it'll make a subfolder called jpeg or whatever format you save as... They'll be in there.