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Hello all!  My fellow mac users, would you please explain to me how you resize your photo's for uploading to the forum?  I've been able to accomplish it but it never feels like i'm in control.  I just try until it's less than 500kb and a good size ( don't always succeed on the size part).  How do you do it?  Thanks.

Tommy my friend I use Photoshop "Elements" on my Mac and it works great.  It's aftermarket software so you do have to purchase a license ($79ish).  But it does all manner of things including "save for the web" which can resize your photos to a very small size but still crystal clear.

I just pulled up IPhoto for the first time and I am not seeing any resizing capability in this software that comes on Macs.

Also - there are web sites that will resize your photos and perhaps others can recommend one.

Lastly - I believe but am not sure, that the new OLF software will have some resizing capability at upload.

You could also take a look at Google's Picasa. IIRC, there is a Mac version. It's more of a "photobook" piece of software, but it will let you resize, crop, etc. I use it for all of my pics (the Linux version).

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Oh yeah, and it's free.

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I use the Windows version of Picasa II, and it is really good.  You can group a set of pictures, and export them, and it will resize each one, and put them in a new folder with the same name as the old pictures, so identity is not lost.  It is very nice.  Also, the editing features are pretty good, particularly for a free program.  Remember, though, that resizing is an export function.

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Thanks guys. I'll try Picasa and if that doesn't work...I have been putting off
Photoshop for awhile but....
Thanks again

Actually, you can resize from iPhoto.

With the desired image selected, use Export in the file menu. You can specify size for export, create a web page with thumbnails to make a web album (very plain), or make a
Quicktime movie with music or voiceover.

You can do some editing too. With the image in zoomed view, click on the adjust button at the bottom of the window. You can do exposure and some color correction. There's a crop button down there too.

I've had to make use of iPhoto for image editing since going to Leopard. My old Photoshop no longer works, and Elements is broken now too.

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BTW, Picasa is only available for Windows. There is a Mac version of Web Albums, though I don't know what editing is provided.

Hesh, are you using Elements with Leopard?

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Yup, iPhoto will do it, and a freebee app called Imagewell from Xtralean Software will do it easier than iphoto.

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I use Photoshop as well. I like sizing to a 770 to 800 px width, but for
the forum I usually do 650. Connections and monitors can easily handle
larger images now and it's becoming standard to start them around 760.

I Save for Web, DON'T store an icc profile (it effects color), and set the
quality to 70. Learned this from Jeremy Cowart, http://jeremycowart.com

Thanks everyone. I'll try everything and see what works best for me. Thanks
again and Merry Christmas.

Pat yes I am using Elements with Leopard and it works great.  I use Photoshop CS II with VISTA and that works great too.  Elements really does about 80% of what Photoshop CS does and it seems to be the 80% that I use.

In my migration to Leopard nothing fell by the wayside, all my apps including thing slike Strobsoft work great.

The version of Elements that I run with leopard is 4.0.1 if this helps any.

By the way have you seen the new commercials claiming that a Mac laptop ran VISTA faster then any PC laptop available?

Sorry for the high-jack Tommy.

I haven't posted photos to the forum, but when I need to email a photo, quickly I highlight it in the organize window of iPhoto and click the email button.  You choose small, medium or large file and it dumps it into an email.  Photoshop's a great program, but it is far more powerful than most people need.  If you're just resizing stuff for the web, iPhoto is fine.

Mike

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I just use the "Preview" function that pretty much all images or things like
"print preview" are shown in. Go to your Applications folder and drag
Preview in to your dock.

If it's an image in iPhoto you can export it to the desk top and then when
you click in it it should open in Preview. Or I usually just open Preview,
then take a screen shot of the image from iPhoto.

Go to Preview, select File -> Grab -> Selection. Then just drag the cross
hairs over the part of the image you want. The image will come up in a
Preview window as a tiff file. I resize the window to the size I want to
post, then click File -> Save As, then I select JPEG, and drop the image
quality down to about 3 or 4 on a 0-10 scale. This is usually fine for
screen viewing, and I typically end up with a file of 20-40kb.

I haven't tried any other ways, but Preview has always seemed simple
enough that I haven't bothered.

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