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I have put together a simple video to show how to resize your photos so that they are within the image and file size constraints of the forum.

 

Please ask here is anything is unclear.

 

I will also do a similar thing to show how to upload photographs to a thread.

 

I hope that this helps

 

http://www.andybarton.com/resize.mov

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Andy this is an excellent resource for members learning the mechanics to share photos here. May I suggest that you add a conversion to sRGB for web browser predictability? Or is that automatically done as part of your "Save for Web" function?

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I was waiting for someone to ask that...

 

I think it needs a separate video, or it needs this one doing again with a colour original

 

Andy,

In the Save for Web Dialogue Box, you have "Convert to sRGB" checked, so you're covered there.

 

Excellent video!

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A 'droplet' for Photoshop which covers every requisite could be made available for download on the board (or elsewhere). It would allow people to do single, select files or entire folders at once.

 

I do this stuff for a living. I'd be glad to help, if you wish.

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It is a small file that one can 'drop' an image upon (or several images, or a whole folder) and Photoshop will run the script (action) embedded within it.

 

Mine does the prep necessary, scales the picture to the proper dimensions, and sets the size limit (compression) required. Anyone can make an Action in Photoshop to do the same. There are so many ways to do it.

 

 

 

We could also distribute a script or action, but Droplets are much simpler for the user.

 

As an aside a Droplet can be executed via the command-line with path/filename passed to it. It's another trick which allows one to execute Photoshop based upon a schedule (cron/batch) or even on a server. But I digress.

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Photoshop can create a droplet to do these things.

 

That's exactly what I wrote.

 

So, good idea or not? It doesn't matter who makes the droplet, but it's part of my day-job and I have quite a library of scripts, actions and droplets. I could send it to you and you can judge for yourself. There are a couple steps to add to the usual procedure.

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This is extremely easy to do in Lightroom if you wish. From the Library module you export a version of the photo in the form that you want.

Simplifying tasks like this is part of its strength.

 

Part screen shot with example settings

 

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Thank you, Geoff. The check-box to Not Enlarge and also the target file-size are missing from Photoshop's CS4 built-in automation. (I could swear it was in an earlier version of Save for Web.)

 

People with a Mac and OS X can bypass Photoshop and Lightroom with a script that calls the Image manager. Lightning fast, but it has the usual compromises. I don't think Leica enthusiasts would entirely trust automation regardless of the tool used.

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My screen capture was from Adobe Lightroom 3.2 of course. It is definitely an extremely quick and intuitive process and you can set it up to perfection and save it as a preset naturally. That means then just a couple of clicks for every photo or group of photos and they are good to go in a few seconds only, all directly from your DNGs

Aren't we ALL shooting DNGs in our M8,9, S2, X1's :)

 

Not that the Ps options are hard of course . I always used a simple recorded action before and you can do more complex things to your images still all automated, if desired. The experts will be able to tell us, but I think that a droplet is a similar idea except that you just have to drag and drop any files onto the icon and it is all automated even further for you.

 

Here's my action for example.

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There are many ways, but this one preserves sharpness and detail

 

 

In Photoshop, "crop" without cropping* to 4x6 res. 300 (i.e. 1800 Pixels) and then downsize** to 960 Pixels wide.

Apply filter "sharpen edges" you will have a perfect sharpness.

 

* Select the whole image with the crop tool and hit "enter"

** "Image size" and "Bicubic smooth"

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Changes need to be made to suit latest software, please.

I use the described  process in LR4. However I've always noticed a loss of sharpness once resized to approx 1000 pixels and a file size limit applied.   Anyone able to suggest an optimising routine to process for the forum (up to 1280), and retain sharpness.  I am able to have LR6.  Will it help?

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