Re: [photoshop-beginners] shrink image to put on web

First for me, someone on dialup, 800k is a huge picture, so I always go for smaller unless it is an animated gif that has to be that large. I also always use “Save for Web” to reduce the size for faster loading. I am assuming element has the “Save for Web” feature. I use Photoshop 6.

Above and beyond that, in HTML you can always set the dimensions of how the picture will actually appear on the page. I almost always set it at the full size I have set in Photoshop, but you can set any dimension you want.  Here is how that looks:

<img src=Banner.jpg width="1080" height="216">

That happens to be for a top banner that is on every page of a certain website I am webmaster for. I could make it smaller on the webpage by changing those numbers without ever touching the actual picture again in Photoshop.

As far as regular pictures, a very good idea is to put just a thumbnail in the actual webpage (maybe 370 by 250), and then link that thumbnail to a page that is just the full size of the picture.

Hope this helps!

Chuck

On 8/10/10 8:01 AM, "gco111" <gco111@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I received an image I'd like to post on a Joomla web site.  It's about 800k.
> I'm able to reduce the resolution for a smaller file size in "Image
> Resize...".  However, after uploading the image to the site, it shows up very
> large left-to-right & top-to-bottom.  How would I go about shrinking it to a
> more appropriate size, without cropping away much of the picture?  Is there a
> way to do this?
> (using Photoshop Elements 7).  Thank you.

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