edit photo for web use

[mrphoto]

what is the best way to edit a photo for the web for quicker up load and crapy print. i have a 10d and using adobe 7.0 for editing thanks Lucas Myer

[jimsloy]

Just edit 'til your heart's content in PS7, then use the SAVE FOR WEB option under FILE in PS7.

Simple answer, did I misunderstand the Q ?

[rcrobert]

mrphoto wrote:
what is the best way to edit a photo for the web for quicker up load and crapy print.

There are several ways. The idea is to use JPEG file format to get the compression -- which also degrades the quality of the photo (the more compression, the worse the photo will look onscreen and in print). You have to decide where the stopping point is -- its a tradeoff between looks and speed (small file size).

One easy way to do this is through ImageReady which comes with PS7. When you are ready to save the file for the web, use "Save for Web" and ImageReady will launch. You can experiment with settings until you find the right combination of file size and image quality. It depends a lot on what size the image will be. Remember to make sure that the dpi setting in "Image Size" is aroung 72 dpi -- anything much greater than this is pretty much wasted.

Finally, there are plug-ins to Photoshop that do a better job of compressing that Photoshop or ImageReady. One example is ProJPEG from BoxTopSoft.com. It routinely makes file sizes

[mrphoto]

im just wanting my web pages to load quicker for people with dial up thanks

[Longwatcher]

A couple of things people missed.
I use save as "jpeg"
at the bottom of the window which pops up, it will tell you how big the file size is. The smaller that number the faster it will load.

Some of this is repeat.
When setting up the picture before hand,
What I do is first save a .tif (so I can restore to how I started)
Format - Image size
- - first reduce DPI to 72 pixels per inch
- - Typically anything larger then 800 pixels will not be visible in most browsers and 640 pixels is also a good maximum size. Second reduce size of image so neither height nor width is more then 800 (unless you are specifically going for a larger image)

Then
Sharpen once
Save As Jpeg using slider to set a file size that is at or below 100k (for really fast loading drop it below 24k or less). Whenever possible keep the number at 5 or above Preferably 8 or above to avoid visible artifacts

If this doesn't work then go back to step one and first reduce colors to 256 then repeat the rest of the steps

And finally just keep shrinking the size of the image.

That's about all you can do.

The above settings are what I use. my images at 100k take about 10-12 secs to download on a 56k modem.

Just my experience.