Reducing photo size?

I have the D70s but im just using the Adobe starter software that

came with it.

Im trying to get some photo's onto a website but they are way too

large.

Anyway with the software or camera settings that I can reduce the

size or do I need to upgrade to the full version of elements?

Thanks

You have a variety of options available to you in terms of creating smaller images. I would be very surprised if you couldn't do it with your current version of Elements (I use PhotoShop CS2 so I don't know for sure); however, you can simply take a smaller photo with your camera by selecting that option or you can download some free software such as <a href="http://www.irfanview.com/">IrfanView</a> which will allow you to process many aspects of your photo. My suspicion however, is that your copy of Elements will allow you to do this.

Mark:

 

Take high res/good pics - resize afterwards - you can do it with your existing software - email me offline if need be.

 

Good Luck

The web is generally 72dpi. I also have CS2 so i'm not sure about your

software but, if there is an image size option, change the DPI/resolution to 72

then mess with your demensions

The best way to resize photos for web posts is to use "Save for web ..." option under file menu. You can preview the target size and size in kb/mb.

"The web is generally 72dpi."

 

It's now 96, but regardless one should look at the pixel dimensions; that's all web browsers read; they don't know from "dpi".

Err Pico. 99% of the viewers on the web probably don't have the ability to display anything more than 72dpi. This means anything more than 72 just inconveniences the majority of your viewers (depending on your audience).

I dont get any of those options that I can find, must be the version that I am using wich is " Adobe Photoshop album starter edition 3.0" I should upgrade to the full version I suppose .

Thanks

Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 is available free from Adobe. It's basically a print organizer. I played with it once and I recall it doesn't have a resize capability.

 

Photoshop Elements will do more than everything you'd want to do. Street price $100 or less.

 

Try Google's Picassa. It's free and it will resize though only to specific resolutions.

One fast and easy and cheap way is to go to the Nikon web site down load a copy of Nikon View for FREE. When you open pictures browser you click on tool-copy and re-size as Jpegs files. Here you will find options for size and quality. No you do not have the same level of control that you get in Photo shop or in Elements, but it is FREE.

just stay away from DPI when all you care about is web publishing. DPI is a printing related term. Browsers and monitors don't do anything with DPI settings of an image, all that's important is the size of the image in pixels.

 

The vast majority of the people now have graphic cards and monitors capable of a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels (widthxheight) or higher. So if your image size is close to that, but not higher, than most people can view it fine.

Another vote for irfanview, free, fast and light on memory.

Another vote for thinking not in DPI but in number of pixels.

As this was not mentioned so far, do consider "sharpening" after resizing... resizing tends to give you murky borders between otherwise more clearly distinct colour areas.

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Thanks for the Info, Im going to get the full ver of elements, I had planed on doing this later on. I just as well do it now.

I wanted to see how I liked the Digital format after using 35mm and 6x7 for a number of years and I have to say I am very pleased with the image's I get from the D70s, Now I just need to get a better printer.

Thanks again for all the input