Otter Cliffs

I like this breathtaking image John but I think it would be much better if you re-scanned it with more resolution as there is quite a bit of distortion, would I be right in saying that you have cropped it down? If so could I see the original as I may be able to shed more light.

 

Regards

 

Hugh

 

Thank you for your comment. I am new to working with photographs on the computer and haven't really figured out how to get an 80mb original scan below 100k for publishing on the web. As for the crop you have all but the very edges of the slide. Taken using an 80-200 zoom nikon lens just before dawn using a small aperture and @ 1 to 2 second exposure.

O.K john I will try and explain the process and if any other viewers can help out with advice, 'well the more the merrier'

I presume you are using Photoshop as an image editor program but if not others will do (Jasc-Paint shop pro and I believe Ulead also do one too!) all it is is a matter of tweaking the image settings.

First of all open your scanned image with your image editor; lets say Photoshop for arguments sake.

In Photoshop now that you have the copy of your image opened select the magnifying tool from the tool box usually on the left side of the screen,

Now you have selected this bring your mouse over the image and left click (hope you are using windows?) now you will see a small menu stating,

Fit on screen,

Actual pixels,

Print size

Zoom in,

Zoom Out.

 

Try selecting actual pixels and see how large the 80 MB image is (huge eh?) so now we are going to try to bring it down in size without losing quality.

So now look at the tool bars along the top of your screen, you should see - File - Edit - Image - Layer, etc, select the Image and then go down to the image size and resize your image width or Height it doesnt really matter because if you change one the other is changed automatically but leave the resolution as it is as you are changing the size you can check to see how the viewable image will look by selecting the magnifying glass placing it over the image and left clicking, then selecting the - actual pixels,,, if it is not right go to the edit bar on the top (near the image bar) and select the undo button,, you can keep doing this until you find the right proportion.

It's sounds hard but after a while you will get the hang of it and possibly find new and better ways of doing it.

In Photoshop 7 in the help bar on the top of your screen you can use the resize plug-in which makes the whole thing a lot easier and less time consuming.

It is worth doing this as you can bring files down to tiny sizes (around 50-300kb) without losing anything noticeable and it's great if you want to make a screensaver/portfolio or just to send them to friends or online galleries.

Hope it helped

 

Regards

 

 

Hugh

 

as an after thought in Photonet if you click on the community button (top left!) you can go to forums for a multitude of questions so never be shy as no one knows everything and it's great to share.

 

John... I agree that the web image doesn't appear to be that sharp. Pity, cos I would love to see a better scan of this photograph. As you can see from my folders, I am a sucker for Acadia National Park. Have spent some time right here at Otter Cliffs, and this is a great rendition of an awesome place!

Hugh, thank you for your suggestions and instruction. Your time is greatly appreciated and I am working on improving.

 

David, Your Maine folder is great and once I conquer the computer part of things, I will put together a folder of my own. Currently my images are not translating favorably into web format. For instance in this photo the curl of the wave is actually tinged pink to complement the spray and there is only the merest hint of that in the image you see.

 

Thank you both.

John... thanks for taking the time to view my photographs... your kind words are much appreciated.

Re your question add my 2 cents to this. I strongly prefer paint shop pro for general work on this site because of it browser abilitys alone...does most what adobe does too.

 

Basically i do this route...scan in nikon scanner very best quality..15 megs a slide...save to hd... bak all the gigage to dvd just in case..ok.

 

Now u wanna crop or post u have the raw file. First open the raw file....take crop or you just want to reduce this for posting....pull down menu...image/resize...box comes up..take top choice pixel size..if say 900 wide height will default....go ok...now listen carefully.

 

Save file AS...(do not overwrite original save seperate)...box comes up...bottom right u see options..press that its the only place to access the compression ratio...it defaults to 7x and you want it at 1:1...so you lose nothing on saving or rotations from a quality perspective...you only have to set this once ever...otherwise if u open 15 meg file and just go save as it will now read 400kb yikes.........hope this helps.