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Help with Resizing Photo's

Jun 19, 2005 4:12PM PDT

I am building a web site in 'Frontpage' to show my photo's and have Adobe Photoshop. I am going to put them in a thumbnail gallery using photoshop, and enable them to be viewed in a larger size.They are in 'tiff' format at the moment and I realise I must save them as 'jpeg's'. But what is the best size to use to get an optimal view without losing too much resolution. (I am hoping to sell them!)
As a newbie to web building I need all the help I can get.
Thanks.

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Here is
Jun 20, 2005 1:28AM PDT
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Resizing Photo's.
Jun 20, 2005 7:59AM PDT

Thanks, but this still doesn't tell me the best size for viewing. I need the maximum size that doesn't take too long for downloading.

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Re: resizing photo's
Jun 20, 2005 8:20AM PDT

There's no 'best' or 'maximum' in this respect. It depends on the connection speed of the person viewing. A size of 40 kB could be large (and time-consuming to download: 10 seconds) for somebody with a dial-up connection, while somebody with a fast cable connection hardly notices if it's 400 kB.

For a thumbnail I would use something like 100 x 150 pixels in high (possibly true) colors. For some more detail make the thumbnail a clickable link to a version of say 300 x 450. But if you want to sell it, be sure that it is unusable for anybody you expect to get money from. And 300 x 450 might be too usable already for online applications (not for print, of course). After viewing it, it's free to copy from the Temporary Internet Files to anybody's website. And it will be done, you can be sure of that. People might even put a link to the picture on your site on their pages, so you pay your ISP for the traffic caused.

Putting things on Internet = giving them away.

Kees