Posted: 2/18/2007 1:34:19 PM EDT
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How do I resize a 2256x1496 pic into a 600x400 pic while maintaining sharpness and clarity? I ask because I had seen someone "fix" a lot of avatars and the fixed ones look pretty sweet. I IM'd the person who did it and never heard back. These pics need to be posted online and the receiving site resizes them to 600x400 (max) and it does not look as good. I figure sending them 'done' will improve things greatly. I have access to PaintShop Pro 8 and Photoshop 7. thanks, Dan |
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You should be able to do it in Photoshop no problem. And going down (from larger to smaller, you should be able to keep the quality. In Photoshop, you can use either the crop tool, or tell it to do an image resize. Using the crop tool, at the top there should be a pair of boxes you can type the dimensions into. Just type in 600px and 400px into the dimension boxes and crop the photo how you'd like it cropped. Or, if the photo is cropped correctly already, go into the "Image" menu and select "Resize" You should be able to type your dimension in there and it will automatically resize it. Hopefully that's explained clearly enough. If not, let me know and I can try to provide further assistance, or maybe one of the other PS gurus will give their input. |
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One problem when dealing with smaller images is that they may actually be enlarged on screen. For example, you resize something small in Photoshop and then to view it you zoom in to greater than 100%. That can make it look bad. Possibly try to crop to the correct size using Photoshop then view it at 100% and see how it turns out. |
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Here is the best method I've found to resizing and staying sharp. Using Photoshop resize in increments of about 200 pixels at a time. So it may take you 10 steps or so to get it down but it resizes it nicer. Especially if you have and sharp contrast edges. To speed up the process just make an action to do it for you. I have an action setup for landscape and portraits starting at full size for both by DSLR's since they are different MP's. Just hit it once and it automatically resizes down to 800 wide or 800 tall. Then I have an action to do my border and watermark for me. Once you get it down to size run a little USM on it and you're golden. |
| I have Photoshop CS2 and have become fairly comfortable doing some basic things in it, but for resizing I always just use Irfanview. It's free. Just do a search. What's cool about it is that you can select a whole batch of files to resize and not get stuck just doing one at a time. It helps with workflow of shots that you don't want to keep in full 6-12MP res, such as family-around-the-house pics. I shoot everything at max res, but then shrink most of them later and just save the best in full res. |