Saltburn Photographic Society


Traditional and Digital Photography in Saltburn

How to Resize your images in Photoshop and save for the web

 

1. Open your image. From the image dropdown menu select image size. Make the longest side 500 pixels (my own
recommendation) and Click OK.
Next you need your images that are Adobe 1998 converted to SRGB this is because colours on the web are much better retained with SRGB, this is only so for the web. Also you need to save and convert to JPEG to ensure a small web file
2. From the ‘File’ dropdown select Save For Web
This will bring up your image in another box where you can clearly see what size the saved image will be in the bottom left corner.
3. Make sure JPEG is selected in the top right dropdown menu, you can adjust the size in the dropdown underneath, I normally find ‘very high’ gives you about the right file size.
4. Click ’save’
My recommendation for the web is to save images at no larger than 100kb for two reasons.
a. Some people still have slow connections so this will ensure they don’t have to wait too long to see your image.
b. To stop anyone ‘lifting’ your image without prior permission to use or claim as their own.

For our website I recommend that images are kept to around 60kb or less to ensure fast load times.