Quite easy: set the crop tool to 800×700 at 72 ppi. That’s all. The document size will depend on the format you choose.
Leen
Merrill,
Be sure to save your original image as is to the format of your desire (usually PSD is best in Elements) before cropping and saving it at the lower crop size and 72ppi. That’s OK for screen use, but if you ever wish to print the image, you’ll want all of the original pixels to get a good print. And remember it’s the total number of pixels (600×600) that’s the image, not the 72ppi. The ppi value just sizes the pixels for printing, not viewing on a monitor.
Bob
For my own learning process, I would like to (for the most part) restate the comments in this thread, as I understand them, and ask for needed correction of any of my mis-statements.
Merrill’s camera file comes into his computer at 1920 x 2560 pixels, 14.1 MB. That is based on use of 26.667 x 35.556 as the size in inches that the file would print at 72 dpi (or pixels per inch).
Working on a copy of the file, by resampling downward, he can reduce the size to 600×800, or 700×933 pixels without cropping, or by cropping the long dimension, to his stated 700×800 pixels.
I would estimate the file size to be reduced in proportion to the total number of pixels, to 1.38 MB for a 600×800 pixel file, before compressing to a JPG. Assuming a 1.38 MB uncompressed TIFF starting file, I believe he would need about a 60% Quality JPEG compression to achieve his 250 kB JPG file size objective.
OldnSenile
OnS – it depends to a large extent on the image, i.e., images with large areas of a single color will compress to a smaller JPEG file than those with lots of discrete areas of differing colors. The Save for Web dialog is a great place to experiment with different image dimensions, compression qualities, etc.
Chuck
OldnSenile,
You’re neither!
Chuck: Thanks. I’ll try the "Save for Web", but have to load my new PE2 first. Seems I’m always slow to install a major application because of the potential hassle if things don’t go quite right.
Nancy: Thanks, but I think that beyond 70 can qualify as "old" (though I was surprised to find so many "young-sounding" seniors in this forum.) Senility is more difficult to define. I seem to have problems remembering names (people and things), and chores for my wife, although, as I think about it, that has probably been true for the last 30 or 40 years.
OldnSenile
OnS –
When I start my Octogenarian Section of this forum there will be a special membership exception for you 70’s+, but only if you can clearly outline your senility qualifications.
You say you can’t remember chores for your wife; I, on the other hand can’t remember the chores she has for me, which is far preferable.
As for Elements, I can spend a month mastering a feature, then go back to it a week later and it seems completely new.
Al
Ah, but isn’t it fun meeting those new people every time we go out?! 🙂
OnS and Al,
I perceive from your posts that;
your minds are active
your sense of humor is evident and charming
you can laugh at yourself
glad you two are on the forum 🙂
eww, see what I did…how I wish we could strangle those little emoticons….<sigh>
Al Millstein: Thanks for the early invitation to your "Octogenarian Section". You make me feel so young! hmmm, YoungnSenile?
Nancy S : Thanks for the kind thoughts. I would love to be able to live up to your impressions of us.
Bert Bigelow: Thanks for the kind words, but "catching up rapidly" to my age, scares me a bit. The only way for that to happen, is for me to stop getting older, and we know what that means. (As my mom used to say, "Getting old is better than the alternative.") (Just kidding, of course. I know you meant "catching up" to my current age.)
OldnSenile
OnS,
It’s an old joke. I used to tell my kids that they were a lot younger than me, but they were "catching up." What I meant was that soon we would all be adults. Now that they’re both over 40, they have reached the adult stage, but some people aren’t to sure about me!
Bert
Rats. I want to edit the "to" in that last sentence, and I can’t. GRRRRRR!
Bert, I’m with you – I want my 30 minutes of free editing back….
🙁
Chuck
