Photo size

[Carolyn]

What size do people normally shoot their photos: 1M, 3M or up to 8M.

Then, when sizing in photoshop, what size do you go down to: 8 inches wide or so many pixels? in order to post them.

I've posted some but the size seems a lot smaller then others posted. I know it has a lot to do with the host used but just wondering if I can go bigger. (I've been making my images about 7 inches wide).

Hope this question makes sense.

Carolyn

[Hogleg 44]

I always shoot my pictures at the max quality. That way you have recorded the best you can get. I rarely ever need that quality, but it's there if I ever do.

For posting here, I resize them to approx 640X480, or however it works for the sensor your camera has. My MkII it constrains out to 640X427.

[heinecke]

I use a Canon 10D which has a max resolution of 6.3mp. I always shoot highest resolution as well. I normally resize down to 640x480 or 800x600 for web viewing depending on the forum I post to. Some have a limit on the number of pixels on the longest side. I don't think there is a limit on this forum (I could be wrong, of course) but you want to keep the dial-up users in mind.


Glenn

[Bill Huber]

I am with the other 2, max res....

I have learned, you can always make them smaller, but you sure can't make them bigger.

For the web I use 800x600 most of the time.

http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/resize

[suzyjazz]

I shoot mostly in RAW, but when choose to shoot JPG I use the dRebel's Large Compressed (not Large Fine). Most people say you can't tell the difference. When I get 4x6 prints (the majority of them) from RAW files, Photoshop Elements interprets as 240ppi with X width and Y height. Now that I am gettting my prints at Costco and they have upload capability, I started reducing my files to 4x6 inches in size, resolution stays at 240ppi. I save it as JPG at a "quality setting" of 9 or 10 (on Photoshop's JPG scale of 12). Moving from 12 to 10 makes the file much, much smaller without compromising quality, IMO. For a 5x7 or 8x10 I also size to match. I guess 8x10 I pretty much leave alone on the sizing. My online images are not that big; I reduce the ppi to 72 and use 600x400 for landscape and 300x450 for portrait. I prefer the image fit on my web site without scrolling. If I was looking for a specific critique I'd go up to 800x600 for a larger image. Sorry if that was too much detail!

Suzy

[Carolyn]

Great information. Thanks for the input from all.

Carolyn

[Bill Huber]

Originally Posted by suzyjazz

I shoot mostly in RAW, but when choose to shoot JPG I use the dRebel's Large Compressed (not Large Fine). Most people say you can't tell the difference. When I get 4x6 prints (the majority of them) from RAW files, Photoshop Elements interprets as 240ppi with X width and Y height. Now that I am gettting my prints at Costco and they have upload capability, I started reducing my files to 4x6 inches in size, resolution stays at 240ppi. I save it as JPG at a "quality setting" of 9 or 10 (on Photoshop's JPG scale of 12). Moving from 12 to 10 makes the file much, much smaller without compromising quality, IMO. For a 5x7 or 8x10 I also size to match. I guess 8x10 I pretty much leave alone on the sizing. My online images are not that big; I reduce the ppi to 72 and use 600x400 for landscape and 300x450 for portrait. I prefer the image fit on my web site without scrolling. If I was looking for a specific critique I'd go up to 800x600 for a larger image. Sorry if that was too much detail!

Suzy

The last poll I did on the OTF showed that 50% of the users have a screen size of 1024x768. This is more then enough to view an 800x600 image without scrolling. But that 800x600 image on a 1280x1024 is really very small.

http://www.pbase.com/otfchallenge/image/27541488

[suzyjazz]

Originally Posted by Bill Huber

The last poll I did on the OTF showed that 50% of the users have a screen size of 1024x768. This is more then enough to view an 800x600 image without scrolling. But that 800x600 image on a 1280x1024 is really very small.

http://www.pbase.com/otfchallenge/image/27541488

I wasn't talking about pure screen size -- I meant on my web site, where there is a banner and other info surrounding the photo, a header above and text below. I tend to take into consideration screen size of 1024x768 or above.

[Bill Huber]

Originally Posted by suzyjazz

I wasn't talking about pure screen size -- I meant on my web site, where there is a banner and other info surrounding the photo, a header above and text below. I tend to take into consideration screen size of 1024x768 or above.

Ok, that would make a little difference.
You have a little problem with some of your Aggie shots...
Of which I enjoyed very much.

[suzyjazz]

Originally Posted by Bill Huber

Ok, that would make a little difference.

Sometimes I want my album to be in a different template so I can make the photo bigger, but I just can't make up my mind. I spent too much time coding that album in ASP to just toss it up. PLus now it actually does EXIF, making Pbase technically unnecessary. Although it looks nicer.

Originally Posted by Bill Huber

You have a little problem with some of your Aggie shots... Of which I enjoyed very much.

Thanks. I'd like to go back with my Rebel and increased knowledge sometime. Well, I went once with the dRebel but only to the George Bush Library and Bonfire Memorial which I shot all in ISO 1600! Oops. Learned my lesson. Anyway, I lived on campus for 3 years and sometimes I miss it. I miss when I had time to exercise and had a wonderful, cheap Rec center a bike ride away!

[Bill Huber]

Originally Posted by suzyjazz

Thanks. I'd like to go back with my Rebel and increased knowledge sometime. Well, I went once with the dRebel but only to the George Bush Library and Bonfire Memorial which I shot all in ISO 1600! Oops. Learned my lesson. Anyway, I lived on campus for 3 years and sometimes I miss it. I miss when I had time to exercise and had a wonderful, cheap Rec center a bike ride away!

In the last 11 years I feel like I have lived there, one daughter 4.5 years and the other will graduate this May.
I love the place.

[suzyjazz]

Originally Posted by Bill Huber

In the last 11 years I feel like I have lived there, one daughter 4.5 years and the other will graduate this May.
I love the place.

Whoop! :D Congrats to your daughter. I think MyKey called A&M disgusting or something like that recently :shock: but I like it. I need to take some pics of the Century Tree. I don't think I am going to make it to Forth Worth for the zoo before it gets hot (husband has to work a bunch of weekends in the next few weeks) so maybe I will go to College Station instead. I can handle that drive on my own. (I'm a terrible bored sleepy driver but driving to College Station is practically like a reflex or something.) Oh, have you been to CoffeeStation? I love that place. ChoochooChino. Man, that's good.

Wow, this sure went OT!

[Bill Huber]

Originally Posted by suzyjazz

have you been to CoffeeStation? I love that place. ChoochooChino. Man, that's good.

Wow, this sure went OT!

I guess you can say it sure went OT..

I have never been to those places but I always go to Free Birds and then there is a little Mexican place just west of downtown Bryan that I like real well. I can't remember all the places we have eaten at. Each one had there own favorites that we would go to.

[suzyjazz]

Mmmmmmmmm Freebirds! Man I want a burrito now. I've only been to the one in Houston a couple of times. But every time I go to College Station, I definitely stop there. Freebirds + CoffeeStation = Good!

IMO, Mission Burrito here in Houston is disgusting, and Chipotle is "OK"!