posted on June 12, 2001 09:22:34 AM new
I'm using a Sony Mavica FD-85 for my auction pics, Photo Suite 8.06 for editing and Honesty for hosting. When resizing photos, is there a "best size" to use. I obviously want to keep the file as small as possible for quick uploading but don't want to lose photo quality. Thanks in advance for any help!
posted on June 12, 2001 09:58:32 AM new
well, to start out save your pic at 72dpi which is the standard for web.
I put pics up at 300px x XXXpx. 300 being the width which then fills up half of a simple 600px wide table template. Description down right side. No horizontal scrolling on a 15" monitor.
jpeg compression is pretty mandatory. I'm not familiar with Photo Suite but most image editing apps lets you set the jpeg compression by way of a % or slider. I usually get into the 50 to 60% range.
As with anything going on the web, with the cross platform issues of; screen resolutions, calibration, etc. -- What you see could be quite different than what I see.
you're probably on a microsoft machine so if it looks good to you it should look good to the rest of the world.
As for ultimate file size in KiloBytes...?
Most of the pics I use are under 25K with the majority in the teens. They seems to download fine but I've traded a little fuzziness for file size/quicker download time.
