Photography

[daredevil]

Somewhere around here I saw an aritcle about optimizing photos for web display. It said to "Open the image in "Irfan View"--what the heck is that?! I use Photoshop 5.0 & there's nothing like that in the help topics. I'm trying to get some photos ready for my gallery and want to use the method that will yield the best load up/quality ratio possible. This is the first time I've set up a gallery, too--I'm using kitpics.
Can anyone out there help?
--daredevil

 

[Figure Mad]

Hi Linda

If you are using photoshop, open the images in this and resize to approx. 850 x 850 pixels at 100 dpi, rgb, then just save down to a jpg file. Once in kitpic upload these files in to a folder (medium quality) you can then copy the img prefix name from each picture into a post message on here.

Good luck

Dave

 

[Calvin]

Irfan view is a program to manage your pics. Optimizing a picture for the web means saving it in a .gif, .png, .jpg, etc., format. While the .gif format only allows 256 colors, all the others can handle thousands of colors.
All such formats uses a compression algorithm defined as data-loss. More you compress, more you reduce the picture size, more you loss definition and colors.
The .jpg format, the most known, uses a scale between 0 and 100, where 100 means no compression and original quality.
I don't remember if the version 5 of Photoshop has the Save Optimized for Web entry in the File menu. If not, you can use the Save As option, selecting the .jpg format and entering a value between 50 and 80 to get the best results. Latest version of Photoshop (7.0 and CS) allows you to specify more parameters when saving with the Optimized for Web option.