Resizing Images for Web or Email 1. Open image file in Photoshop or Elements 2. Duplicate the file to protect the original by going to “Image/Duplicate” in Photoshop CS3 or CS4. In Photoshop Elements go to “File/Duplicate”. This will append the word copy on the end of the file name. Click OK 3. Next go to “Image/Image Size”
4. Check the three boxes at the bottom that say “Scale Styles”, “Constrain Proportions” and “Resample Image” 5. In the pulldown menu at the very bottom of the dialogue box, put “Bicubic Sharper” 6. In the Pixel Dimensions box, type in the new pixel dimension value for the longest dimension in your photo. I.E. if your photo is a horizontal orientation, and you want it to be 1280 pixels wide (as for Photo Expo requirements), type 1280 in the “Width” box. The height in this case will be automatically filled in. This will maintain the original shape of the photo without distortion (constrain proportions). Of course, if the photo is vertical, you type “1280” into the Height box.
7. Note that the “Document Size” Boxes are used only when resizing for print output. They are not used at all in the resizing for web or email process. 8. Click OK to close the dialogue box and resize the image. The image will shrink on your screen to a rather small size. You can restore it to a more easily visible size by typing “Command/Option 0” (zero) on a Mac or “Control/Alt 0” on a PC. 9. The image is now successfully resized but it must now be resaved as a JPG. First make sure that the image is in 8 bit mode by going to “Image/Mode/8 Bits/Channel” 10. Convert to sRGB in Photoshop by going to “Edit/Convert to Profile”. Next change the destination space to “sRGB IEC61966-2.1” and click “OK”.
In Photoshop Elements, go to “Image/Convert Color Profile/Convert to sRGB”. 11. Next, go “File/Save As…” 12. Change the file name (for Photo Expo the protocol is “lastname_firstname_1” with the number increasing one digit for each entry. 13. Choose a destination folder or desktop for the file. 14. Choose “JPEG” as the file format.
15. Click Save
16. The JPEG Options dialogue box opens. Set the quality to 12 and click “OK”
17. The file is now saved as a JEPG that is the proper size for Photo Expo