Newbie trying to put pics on web after photoshop editing – help please

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Louise
Apr 2, 2005
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I have a Canon S400 and am shooting at the best settings, getting jpgs between 1500 and 2000kb per image.

I want to edit these in Photoshop and keep the original as high quality as possible. As I understand it, this means that the first thing I should do is change them from jpg to tiff so that the image doesn’t degrade with every edit.

Which software would be best used to change the original jpg to a tiff: I have Photoshop, ACDsee, Breezebrowser and probably one or two others somewhere on my hard drive 🙂

Then I have a tiff and I open it in Photoshop and I crop, adjust color, contrast, etc. as necessary. Then I save it as a tiff.

At this point, have I lost quality?

NOW – I want to save these images at a much smaller size so that I can put them on a web page.

I see that Photoshop provides the option of "save for web" and it offers different levels of jpg compression for loading speed and that works fine and leaves me with an image that is about .

But – I can’t seem to make the images smaller and when they load on the web, they are large and pixelated. I tried making the tif images smaller: image size/document size, that that didn’t seem to end up making the image size smaller when I changed it to jpg.

I have the impression that I’ve got the right idea (at least I hope so), but that I’m doing something in the wrong order or something….

Help and suggestions appreciated.

TIA
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Mister Max
Apr 2, 2005
Louise posted:

I have a Canon S400 and am shooting at the best settings, getting jpgs between 1500 and 2000kb per image.

I want to edit these in Photoshop and keep the original as high quality as possible. As I understand it, this means that the first thing I should do is change them from jpg to tiff so that the image doesn’t degrade with every edit.

Which software would be best used to change the original jpg to a tiff: I have Photoshop, ACDsee, Breezebrowser and probably one or two others somewhere on my hard drive 🙂

Then I have a tiff and I open it in Photoshop and I crop, adjust color, contrast, etc. as necessary. Then I save it as a tiff.

At this point, have I lost quality?

NOW – I want to save these images at a much smaller size so that I can put them on a web page.

1. Change the image size from 2270×1700 to 800×600, or similar size so people can see it on their screen without scrolling. Keep in mind that many people have 800×600 screens, and most have 1270 x whatever, or smaller.

2. The file size you want is a compromise between clarity and slow downloading. Bigger file is clearer, more detailed, sharper – but takes longer to download. Under 100 KB is a good starting point.

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KatWoman
Apr 3, 2005
I start with jpgs from a Canon 10D. Then, unless I am going to adjust or artwork on them they are fine to archive as is.
Then I edit to best frames, no need to save all as TIFFs.

If I do retouching artwork etc, I then save it in layers as PSD format in case I ever need to further adjust it, I never crop it.

If I need to print outside, I crop and resize the image as needed and save as a TIFF, flattened.

If you need web images:
Open the Tiff or original jpg, choose SAVE FOR WEB, that opens image ready. (you may want to reduce image size of a Tiff before launching Image Ready)

For photos,use jpg on high,
at the bottom palette you can control the image size,
what you see on your screen is what size it is on the net. You can also batch process large amount of images by using the actions palette.

"Louise" wrote in message
I have a Canon S400 and am shooting at the best settings, getting jpgs between 1500 and 2000kb per image.

I want to edit these in Photoshop and keep the original as high quality as possible. As I understand it, this means that the first thing I should do is change them from jpg to tiff so that the image doesn’t degrade with every edit.

Which software would be best used to change the original jpg to a tiff: I have Photoshop, ACDsee, Breezebrowser and probably one or two others somewhere on my hard drive 🙂

Then I have a tiff and I open it in Photoshop and I crop, adjust color, contrast, etc. as necessary. Then I save it as a tiff.

At this point, have I lost quality?

NOW – I want to save these images at a much smaller size so that I can put them on a web page.

I see that Photoshop provides the option of "save for web" and it offers different levels of jpg compression for loading speed and that works fine and leaves me with an image that is about .

But – I can’t seem to make the images smaller and when they load on the web, they are large and pixelated. I tried making the tif images smaller: image size/document size, that that didn’t seem to end up making the image size smaller when I changed it to jpg.

I have the impression that I’ve got the right idea (at least I hope so), but that I’m doing something in the wrong order or something….
Help and suggestions appreciated.

TIA

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