Unless I have misunderstood something, you must be doing this Web work in another program. My suggestionn would be for you to set pixels to 72 if this is referring to the number of pixels per inch. This will significantly decreased the size of your pictures, but will have no effect on how well they display on the web site.
I’m using Adobe Photoshop Elements. I did a browse and chose my picture and then clicked on File/Save for Web. That is where I chose my settings. Then, I download them into my web directory and put them onto the site by using FrontPage.
I am confused between the pixels as to the actual size of the photograph (inches wide and long) and the pixels that make up the… well, the only way I can describe it … the "inner size" of the photo. If I go into File/Save for Web and change the pixels to 72, I am going to have a tiny picture. Too tiny to view. Am I wrong or more confused than I think??
Thanks so much for your help.
Forget ppi for web images.
Just decide max pixel dimension for the long side you want. a 600 pixel-wide image displays at same size on screen whether saved as 72ppi or 7200ppi. It displays exactly 600 pixels wide in both cases.
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Mac
Okay but where do I change that? If I change the pixel size on File/Save for Web, it changes the actual dementions of the photo. If I right click on the photo after it is on the site and choose Picture Properties to changes the pixels, it also changes the actual dementions of the photo.
Decide what pixel dimensions you want in Elements first. Use Image Size with Resample ON, to downsample long side to x pixels. Then do any final touchup at this actual final size, like sharpening. Then use SaveForWeb.
Mac
Mmmmm……. New language to me. I am new to Adobe. Looks as if the manual will be my New Years reading. Haven’t used Image Size and not familiar with Resample. I’ll find it, though. Thanks so much for your help.
Resample simply means you are going to change the image to have a different number of total pixels than you started with.
Downsampling means that you will have fewer pixels (and a smaller image, both in display size on screen and in bytes)
Upsampling means that you will have more pixels than the original (this function has very limited practical application).
Mac
Diane,
Open the image you want to work on. Go to the top menu…click Image, then from the dropdown, click Resize and from the next dropdown, click Image Size. This will get you to the Image Size form. Then, follow Mac’s instructions.
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