Photoshop Resizing Different From Upload

George, how are you resizing your images in PS? Are you taking the quality down a step, like from 12 to 11?

PS doesn't give me that option when I choose resize image. I just change the pixel sizes until it shows a file size at or under 25mb. What 12 to 11 are you talking about? 12 to 11 what?

12 is the maximum quality you can choose when you save the Photoshop file as a jpg. If the file is too big you can save it at quality 11

Re-save the image at a lower quality... that also reduces the 'size' in number of pixels. Saving it at 11 or even 10 quality doesn't really change the image that much visually.

Are you choosing image size and looking at the mb there in the photoshop file because when it is saved as a jpg it will be much smaller than that.

Do it incrementally until you get just under the limit

By the way the first 2 images I looked at have the safe filter on but they are landscapes!

What are you talking about when you say to change quality? I can't find that in PS. If the saved jpeg is smaller, how can I predict what the jpeg size will be when I'm resizing?

Ok, open an image in Photoshop. Go to Save As... at that point the slider bar comes up so you can change the quality of your 'save as'...
give it a second or two and the number (as in number of MGs, not dimensional size, like 10,000 x 8000 pixels) is also shown. Use the slider bar to move the quality down a step, and the new number of MGs will also be shown as you move it down. Stop when it's under 25mg.

Moving the slider down steps changes the resolution, so you really don't want to go down to 9...things start really changing at that point.

(this is for regular Photoshop, not Photoshop Elements.... I don't use PS Elements so I don't know if it's the same process with it)

I know there can be a learning curve to this site, but Joy is dead-on about going down to 11 or 10 on the quality instead of resizing. Make sure you use the "Save As" feature and not Save For Web. Also, you need to add tags to your images so folks can find them through search. Add more descriptive captions than, for example, "Scenic view of the Grand Canyon." Google likes sentence structure. Tell us about the scene in your own words about what we are seeing. And like was mentioned previously, some of your landscape scenes are behind the Safe Filter.

Oh, it is the same process with Photoshop Elements, too

Never mind about this one. I believe I was mistaken

your camera has the size - that's the size you upload. you can check the image size by clicking on canvas size - that should have the dimensions.

edit, then save - the number 10, 11, 12 is the compression rating in photoshop.

NEVER enlarge. you turned the loupe off, but i can see quite a few that may not or will not print due to clarity and blurriness.

be sure to add tags or no one will find you.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I'm using PS Elements11 and it doesn't show a slider bar when I save as. I quit paying for Adobe CC because they make it so expensive. So is there other software I might use? I really appreciate so many of you jumping in to help!

picassa is free. but any version of photoshop will work.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

George,

What Joy said! If you are using Photoshop and then do the "save as" under File, then a box will open, showing where you want it saved, click "save" and then the box we're talking about pops up!
"JPEG Options" and then the famous slider bar, which sliding first down to 11 will change the file SIZE, but not the "quality". If needed, use 10 then.
By the way, WHY are your files so large? I rarely have any close to 25mbs anymore.....
Rich

P.s. by the way, are some of your images scans from old slides? They sorta have that look.

Thank you, Joseph, Mike and Rich... also thanks for that illuminating detail about PS Elements, but George seems to still be having trouble?

Thank you all, I found the slider bar!

The 1980s Bodyscapes are scanned from 35mm slides.

I shoot film for much of my work, also digital. Rich, you asked about my large files. Wouldn't I want my files to be close to the 25mb limit for large size prints? Apparently, this is something else I don't understand.

Oh good, George!

You will find the artists here extremely helpful. Just post your question on the Forum, as you did :) I have to say, we have an excellent group of photographers, in particular, that are very generous with their help. I'm always relieved when they show up :)

megabytes don't mean a large image. a large image is a large image - and that's done in pixels. if your image is 2000px the image will be 20in. you can't enlarge it, and you can't just save it large. it has to start large. looking at many - you'll have issues. like the nudes - the girls themselves - are pixelated because they were enlarged.

the size in bytes all depends on the size of the image, the noise level, the colors, the clarity, compression level, how busy it is, etc.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Mike, thanks very much for clarifying. Looks like I'll have to do my uploading all over again.

George,

Yes, big chunky files are best and with today's cameras creating HUGE RAW FILES, great to have as a "problem"! On the other hand, I've sold 4 foot by 6 foot prints from much smaller files here!

As mentioned above, a 5700 dpi/ppi file will print out to 57 INCHES!! Or more, depending on the product here. Shower curtains and duvet covers as an example. And people here that know what they are doing CAN enlarge their images, I do it ALL the time, but terrible results if you don't know what you're doing!

Don't oversharpen and make sure your monitor is pretty close to being accurate, a few of you scanned desert images seem a bit bright to me, maybe 1/2 to 3/4 overexposed and one you have of a buffalo in a field, a bit soft. FAA will not print images YOU sell if they think they're not perfect! And that's a heartbreaker!!!

Rich

the general rule is to not enlarge -- unless you know what your doing and what to look for. many have no idea. i've enlarged things quite a bit over the years, and its harder to see, because i blended it together.

size wise i have a 6ft print and its like 6megs, because its almost all black. and i have another that's like 50megs because of the complexity.

things you want to fix for it to be printed:

can't be blurry all over (though this one is a 50-50, because i know i would fail it if i was one of them that chose)
can't have noise
your sky - shouldn't be covered in scratches. that should be cloned out.
it shouldn't look scratched unless that's the look you want
can't be chunky monkey. like the girls were enlarged and put on a new background. they lost all their details. you want to avoid that.

and that's roughly it for photography. painters have more, like the light should be even, no reflections/glare, crops should be clean with no background, no frames (some shoot it in their wood frames for some reason). should be shot straight on. common sense stuff. the image should look as good on the screen as it does in real life.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

You do not need to upload larger files. There is no need if your images are that size, leave them at that size. Do not try and fix what is not broken

Best regards,

Abbie
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