Reducing a photo's size in Photoshop?

13 years 4 months ago #7123 by NormNYC
I just bought Photoshop so I can resize photos because my camera takes them so large that I can't do much else with them.

I have Photoshop open now and would like to know how can I resize a image smaller?


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13 years 4 months ago #7168 by One Wish
Oh that's easy. After you have your photo open in Photoshop. There are 2 ways you can access image size.

1. Right click on the image and click on "Image Size"
2. Top left click on "Image" then click on "Image Size"

Either way, you plug in the size you want and hit save. That's it!


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13 years 3 months ago #7778 by effron
Also, learn to use the crop tool......

Why so serious?
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13 years 3 months ago #7841 by DBoucher Photography
The batch tool in Photoshop is also a great time saver - assuming you're making them all the same size.


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13 years 3 months ago #7894 by k.robinson
I too have gone digital and my files are Huge. What is considered a reasonable size file to post online such as here. I played all afternoon with photo shop and then realized I'm missing alot of basic info in this area of editing. I have never had peer critic's and I look forward to it. I need help to improve my skill with this technology.


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13 years 3 months ago #7899 by Yasko
You can post them any size here, as long as they don't exceed 2 MB filesize.

I usually reduce them to around 1300 x 850 size for upload here, and they never exceed 2 MB.


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13 years 3 months ago #8201 by NormNYC
BTW thanks for all the help, I ended up buying a few books on Amazon on Photoshop. So hopefully I will be a Photoshop guru after reading these books!

Norm


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13 years 2 months ago #10981 by TiaMia
I hope you didn't spend all that $ on Photoshop to ONLY resize photos. I hope you plan to also post process the photo too.


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13 years 2 months ago #12674 by photobod
first of all you can change your file size in most digital camers if you are only wanting photos for the web, try that first, on here files must be 2MB or less if yours are over then just go into images on photoshop and choose to change image size, its pretty simple, I bought a book called photoshop for dummies, its an excellent reference tool for beginners and can be bought in any of the big book shops.

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