How do I reduce image size?

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Peter Jason
Jul 5, 2004
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I borrowed photos and scanned them, but I used a too high scanner resolution and so the files are too big.

Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?

Please help, Frank
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Jon Danniken
Jul 5, 2004
"Peter Jason" wrote:
I borrowed photos and scanned them, but I used a too high scanner resolution and so the files are too big.

Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?

Image > ImageSize.

Jon
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Voivod
Jul 5, 2004
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:32:22 +1000, "Peter Jason" scribbled:

I borrowed photos and scanned them, but I used a too high scanner resolution and so the files are too big.

Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?

Of course it’s not possible, how could you even think you could change the IMAGE SIZE… sheesh….
TD
The Doormouse
Jul 5, 2004
"Peter Jason" wrote:
Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?

There is always the manual. It does not bite, you know.
Even exploring the menu bar would have answered your question.

The Doormouse

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no_email
Jul 6, 2004
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:36:47 GMT, The Doormouse
wrote:

"Peter Jason" wrote:
Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?

There is always the manual. It does not bite, you know.
Even exploring the menu bar would have answered your question.
The Doormouse

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Not to mention H…E…L…P… this seems to escape many a lazy person.
BW
Bob Williams
Jul 6, 2004
Peter Jason wrote:
I borrowed photos and scanned them, but I used a too high scanner resolution and so the files are too big.

Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?
Please help, Frank

When scanning photographs, there is hardly ever a need to scan at dpi greater than 300-400.
But to address your present problem, just do as Jon said. Click IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE. Check the "resample" and "constrain dimensions" boxes and enter the number of pixels you want for the height or width. Click OK Done …..Bob Williams
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Roberto
Jul 6, 2004
There’s a fairly systematized tool for resizing an image.

Go to Help>Resize Image… and use the wizard to resize the image. For most purposes, set the lpi value to 150 and quality to 2x (that’s 3rd and 4th step).

As for file size (if you only want to reduce the file size and not the image itself) save as JPG. With high-res images, you don’t need a quality setting higher than 10. Of course, JPGs are lossy, so if you’re REALLY paranoid about image quality, save as TIFF or some other lossless format. But those are quite large (roughly 5~10 times as large in some cases).

"Peter Jason" wrote in message
I borrowed photos and scanned them, but I used a too high scanner resolution
and so the files are too big.

Is there any way to reduce the size to reasonable levels?
Please help, Frank

J
Joseph
Jul 8, 2004
go to ‘image’ in photoshop and roll it dawn click ‘image size’ "Bob Williams" a

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