Re: I'm loosing my pixels!

On 26 Mar 2006 09:14:12 -0800, "roxy" <rwhite1967@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there any way to reduce an image from, say, 1260 pix wide, to 400
pix wide, without loosing image quality? It sounds impossible, but I
thought I'd ask anyway.
I'm trying to make beautiful thumbnails for my website.

Isn't 400pix wide a bit large for a web thumbnail?

Well, much like Bill Hilton I've also just come back from a holiday
and have them up at my website.

http://www.metalvortex.com/myphotos/south_america_2006/

I took the photos at 3072x2048 and post-processed in Photoshop.
Then I created small web-sized JPEG images at generally 550x367.
Then I created JPEG thumbnails at 120x80.

The 120x80 thumbnails were applied with a moderate "Smart Sharpen"
filter with JPEG compression/quality set at "High". I think that this
gives a good thumbnail image quality without sacrificing too much on
download speeds (I have 60 thumbnails on that page!).

Hope that helps.

--
Kulvinder Singh Matharu
Website : www.metalvortex.com
Contact : www.metalvortex.com/form/form.htm

"It ain't Coca Cola, it's rice", Straight to Hell - The Clash
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