If I would like to reduce images while keeping quality as good as it

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windandwaves
Jun 14, 2007
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Hi Folk

If I would like to reduce images while keeping quality as good as it can be – going from large CMYK jpg images (e.g. 20 Megabyte) to small jpg images for the web (10kb) then what steps should I take? Should i just reduce and save for the web (high quality) or do I also need to convert to RGB, choose specific reduction methods, etc….

Thanks in advance

Nicolaas
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Toobi-Won Kenobi
Jun 15, 2007
"windandwaves" wrote in message
Hi Folk

If I would like to reduce images while keeping quality as good as it can be – going from large CMYK jpg images (e.g. 20 Megabyte) to small jpg images for the web (10kb) then what steps should I take? Should i just reduce and save for the web (high quality) or do I also need to convert to RGB, choose specific reduction methods, etc….
Thanks in advance

Nicolaas

Cinverting to RGB will result in a 25% reduction straight away. (3 colours instead of 4) 20MB to 10K is quite a jump and you should expect to see some loss of quality. What are your pixel dimensions, L x B and resolution, ppi. Try resizing to 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 with a ppi of 72 if you are only going to display the images on a monitor, not print. Use Bicubic Sharper when resizing and "save for the web". (doesn’t save metadata)

TWK
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windandwaves
Jun 17, 2007
On Jun 15, 8:06 pm, "Toobi-Won Kenobi" <Toobi-won > wrote:
"windandwaves" wrote in message

Hi Folk

If I would like to reduce images while keeping quality as good as it can be – going from large CMYK jpg images (e.g. 20 Megabyte) to small jpg images for the web (10kb) then what steps should I take? Should i just reduce and save for the web (high quality) or do I also need to convert to RGB, choose specific reduction methods, etc….

Thanks in advance

Nicolaas

Cinverting to RGB will result in a 25% reduction straight away. (3 colours instead of 4) 20MB to 10K is quite a jump and you should expect to see some loss of quality. What are your pixel dimensions, L x B and resolution, ppi. Try resizing to 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 with a ppi of 72 if you are only going to display the images on a monitor, not print. Use Bicubic Sharper when resizing and "save for the web". (doesn’t save metadata)
TWK

thanks a lot!, i will try that!

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