A Resolution Question

[BoyNhisDog]

I have had the S100 for almost a year now and it has changed the way I look at photograpy. I love it and will get a G2 in the near future.

When I post a photo, I like to make it about 6" wide so I resize it in Adobe Photo Delux by making the rez 96 down from 180 and then selecting 6" wide. Then I sharpen it and save it. This makes a decent image but my question is: Is there anyway to size the image down to 6" and keep a higher resolution in the process, making the image look even sharper than I get now?

It seems ashamed to have to knock it down from 180 but if I don't do that it remains bigger than 6". I'm no computer rocket scientist but I can learn most anything if it is explained well.

[gerry]

Resolution for the net is not that important as most monitors view the image at 72-96 ppi.

However, if you want to save resolution, before you resize in photoshop uncheck the resample image option. Then when you downsize the print output, the pixels will not be eliminated and you'll have a nice high res image.

[BoyNhisDog]

Thanks Gerry but I don't see that as an option on the Adobe Photo deluxe software that came with the camera.

When I select Size and then at the bottom Photo Size, the only two boxes that can be checked at all are Contrain Proportions and Constrain File Size. Maybe I need to select another menu but don't know which one. The photos come out good but I have seen better resolution in some photos on the web. There is something that I am not getting.

I am over here in Tucson, not too far from you in El Paso.

[Rustle]

I've never been a big fan of Photo Deluxe. About the only good selling point for it is that it's free with almost any imaging product you buy. I must have three or four copies lying around.

You might want do download the trials of Adobe Photoshop Elements or Ulead PhotoImpact 7 and see if those produce better results for you. For one thing, they'll let you uncheck the 'resample image' box, as Gerry suggested to do. I haven't decided which program I like better, but I think that's a personal decision based on a user's individual needs. So, try 'em both for 30 days.

I imagine that PS Elements will eventually replace Photo Deluxe. Olympus has already started shipping it with their cameras.

Newer Canon cameras have ArcSoft PhotoImpression bundled, but I haven't installed it (I've already got three other editing programs on my PC). Does anyone have an opinion on ArcSoft?

Russ

[rlwhitt]

"Does anyone have an opinion on ArcSoft"

Waste of valuable CD space. Kinda like Adobe PhotoDeluxe, it wraps so much useless eye candy UI around things, assumes you're an idiot, and makes it hard to actually DO anything, even if the features are there.

If all you want are simple but clean editing, cropping, resizing, plus good printing and catalog management, one can't go wrong with JASC AfterShot. If you need more muscle, something like PSP7, Photoshop Elements, and a trove of other good editors is well worth the money. It's amazing how much truly bad software has been shipped with cameras and other imaging products.

[gerry]

constrain file size, if it means maintain file size, would be the same as resample off.

sorry, i didn't read your post well enough to catch that you weren't using photoshop.

btw, photoshop is a must. it's expensive, but if you are a student at any U.S. college, you can purchase it at the bookstore in the academic version for under 200. no difference in the acad. version except for the startup screen.

and if you're not a student, you can probably take a continuing ed course in photoshop and that would get you the program cheap and a quick overview of the program.

arizona, inparticular phoenix, flagstaff area are favorite vacation spots. have to go through tucson to get there. what's fun in tucson?

[sean000]

btw, photoshop is a must. it's expensive, but if you are a student at any U.S. college, you can purchase it at the bookstore in the academic version for under 200. no difference in the acad. version except for the startup screen.
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