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Don't be a bandwidth hog

By Jon Sienkiewicz

October 21, 2007

Digital image files can be huge. An image created with a tiny 10-megapixel camera is often 3.5MB or larger.



 

That's great for a wall-sized print. But when you plan to send an image by e-mail, blog it, or publish it on the web, reducing the image resolution (and thereby reducing the file size) is a must.

If you use any flavor of Adobe Photoshop, open the image and select Image Size from the drop-down menu. Set the horizontal resolution to 800 and save the file under a new name. (Be careful! If you fail to rename the file you may lose the original size and resolution forever.)

Don't have Photoshop? Windows XP Resize Power Toy is a free application that lets Windows users right-click an image with your mouse and select the new resolution from a drop-down menu. You can even resize several images at once. The original image is not altered; instead, a new, smaller image is created and saved under a new name.



This shot of a red caboose, taken with a 10-megapixel Casio EX Z1050, was 5.5MB before I resized it to more manageable 180KB VGA (640x480) image. (Final version shown here is 450x338 pixels and--44KB.)

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Use the Crop tool in PSE

You can use the crop tool in PSE to shrink your pixels: http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/Crop-to-HD Just follow these steps in the video and alter the pixel dimensions to suit your needs.

by Jack Howard in TechTock.Adorama.com on May 3, 2010

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What about Element?

Photoshop Elements does not permit resizing by pixel and the XP resize tool does not work on Vista machine.

by Jane in Massachusetts on May 3, 2010

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No Macintosh tip

Photoshop or some Windows utility? In the words of Peggy Lee, "Is that all there is"? No, Peggy, that's not all there is. On the Mac Platform, there's Preview - built in. No download required. No Photoshp required.

by DonR in California on November 2, 2009

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