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| Resizing for the Web - Need Advice Soon; Adobe Photoshop - maybe | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 28 2009, 05:31 PM (258 Views) | |
| singaporejade | Oct 28 2009, 05:31 PM Post #1 |
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Hey guys & gals, I need some advice being a newbie... I am shooting gemstone jewelery for my wife's "to-be" website. So I got the requisite - a good sony full frame camera, a good prime lens 1.4/50 mm, a light tent, 2x5500K lights, tripod. I shot some great phootos in RAW as well as RAW+JPEG. Since it is a prime lens, I cannot get very close to the subject - and also to present the photos on the website, I need to edit these photos. Here is where I started running into a problem. What should I do? I downloaded a trial version of Photoshop Elements and am playing with it. I know I can crop the picture. But when I resize it (and re-sample it) I can reduce the size, but I loose all the clarity. I know I am doing something wrong, but for the life of me do not know what I am doing. I need to get atleast 3 pics of this - a thumbnail and 2 bigger photos. The thumbnail is expected to be 100x80 which is 8K from the 33MB RAW file.... Can someone help or point me to some threads/topics where I can do some reading rather than getting more frustrated. Thanks SJ |
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| cjng | Oct 28 2009, 05:54 PM Post #2 |
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Think it compressed too heavily for u at 8k...it way to much already |
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| Mr.Oink | Oct 28 2009, 06:21 PM Post #3 |
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I'm not quite familiar with photoshop element. But in Photoshop, there is this function where u can use "save for web" I would suggest u save as PNG for ya thumbnail, and jpeg for ya actual picture. |
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| Birder | Oct 28 2009, 07:10 PM Post #4 |
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Hi Welcome to alphadslr! Not sure how Photoshop element is... But I like to suggest you try to use Lightroom for your photo editing and resizing. You can download the latest free BETA version from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/ This is what you can do: 1) Save all your photos (raw) in on directory/folder 2) Start Lightroom, maybe create a new catalogue (eg. "Gem pictures") 3) Import your photos into Lightroom (browse to where you saved them) 4) Flag all those photos (use "P" for "pick"), as you view each of them, which you want to edit. 5) Show all the "flagged" (picked) photos (there is a menu selector at bottom right) 6) Edit your photos one by one (Do this in "Develop" view) (correct/adjust White Balance, Exposure, Shadow/Highlight, Contrast, Brightness, Cropping,etc) 7) Copy the setting used on one photo to the next photo if taken on similar setup. Or use "sync". This is a helpful automated task, since all your photos are taken at same distance from tripod with same lighting. Meaning adjustment for one photo can be replicated to rest of photos. 8) Recheck those photos with settings copied, to ensure if it looks ok or if you need to fine tune the editing 9) Select all the photos, and "Export" them 10) Specify a new folder location to export to (eg c:\...\thumbnail\ ) 11) Specify the max pixel size for thumbnail (for example 50width, 50 height) 12) Then re-export again the same set of photos, this time set a bigger pixel size (500pixel? width & height) in another folder (eg c:\...\medium\ ) Or same folder if you can specify a different filename structure (see note below) 13) Then do another re-export again the same set of photos, this time set a your final big pixel size (800pixel? width & height) in another folder (eg c:\...\large\ ) Or same folder if you can specify a different filename structure (see note below) Note: Lightroom allows you to put additional text to the filename each time you export, so my suggestion can be to export with prefix "thm_dsc0xxxx" for thumbnails, "med_dsc0xxxx" for medium and "Lar_dsc0xxxx" Hope this helps.. |
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| les40sail | Oct 28 2009, 09:06 PM Post #5 |
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birder.............4 steps please, more than that my brain freezes!! thanks for this info.
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| Birder | Oct 29 2009, 12:02 AM Post #6 |
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check my tutorial post http://s11.zetaboards.com/Alphamount_Singapore/topic/7224521/ hope it helps
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| singaporejade | Oct 29 2009, 12:21 PM Post #7 |
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Thanks for all the advice. Will report back after I have worked this out. Thanks for the detailed instructions |
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birder.............4 steps please, more than that my brain freezes!!
thanks for this info.
8:35 AM Jul 11