Avatars

[Rick40]

 Hi

  I was wondering if you could tell me how to properly resize a pic so that I can use it as a avatar here so that it will look good. I tried resizing one ,but it looked terrible. My original prints are about 3200 pixels in size.  I then edit them to a TIF file.Then I resize them to about 750 pixels in size with a jpg format for the web. I am currently using Photoshop PS3 for my photo editing software

   Thank you

    Rick

[Jerry]

Go to Google and get VSO  a resizing program,  Sean told me about it and it works wonderfully~

[Jonna]

In Photoshop, you can edit Image>Size to about 75px x 75px and a resolution of 72dpi then save as a jpeg.

[Sean]

Maximum pixel size on this forum for avatars is 65 X 65 Pixels.

Cheers,
Sean

[carver]

I found ( with photoshop ) sometimes you need to resize in steps, and not all at once when greatly changing the size of an image. The pictures get pretty fuzzy sometimes when you drastically change the size. It may have something to do with the way photoshop reads the pixel information. Any way try going a little at a time and see if it helps.

Also using the save for web function of photoshop will help with the file size.

[Jonna]

You should have the picture in a loss-less format (such as the native photoshop .psd or Tiff .tif) before you change the size.  if you do a lot of changing while in JPEG or .jpg you will lose a lot of clarity in the picture.  If it gets a little fuzzy from reducing the size, run the unsharpmask filter in Photoshop on it afterwards.  Only once though.  Then save it as a JPEG of medium to small quality or use the Save for Web in Photoshop as Carver recommended.

[Rick40]

 Thank you all for your help.

  Rick