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Images for Web sites
Wondering if any of you designers can help?
I need to take standard high res Jpegs – convert them into .png files (or so I am told) to sizes of 100x150pxls and then make a second image at 200x350pxls.
Purpose of this task is to develop on my web site a click on “examples of work done” page then it will enlarge to a Zoom in version.
We have the software- Photoshop & illustrator etc but not necessarily the experience to do this
All advice and tips as usual greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
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5 Replies
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Hi Chris
One little program I use is Xara Webstyle. It has pre made headings, banners buttons etc and one nice little bit. Take a jpeg, size it and then you can make a ‘thumbnail’ from it. Have a look at http://www.xara.com/products/webstyle I’ve found it a very useful piece of software. Hope this helps.
Regards
Lee -
Simple enough to do in photoshop I feel Crop your image to what you want then under the image tab size and set the pixel width and resolution ant there you have it.
Goop oh and save as png.
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A handy note to remember is that screen do not visually support any higher than 72dpi so the first thing is to ALWAYS reduce your dpi. This generally has a profound effect on the image file size, and from that you can then further reduce the actual dimensions. In Photoshop there is also the option of “saving to web” which, when fiddled with correctly, can reduce huge file sizes down to very small and fast. Photo type files are usually best as a jpeg, while logos generally save out better and smaller as gif. Hope this helps…..
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Chris there is a free program called JAlbum, (www.jalbum.net) and it does everything for you – creates both thumbnail and normal picture singularily or a complete directory.. Even does the photo album that so that you click on the thumbnail and it automatically opens the bigger picture, has skins and all you do is download it to your site, and link to it.
When I need to do a quick site for a client, it comes in very handy.
Hope that helps
Shane
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Thanks everyone
will play around with these methods
Chris
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