Week 2 Assignment - How to Save a Photograph in Different Sizes and File Formats Using Photoshop

Goal: Learn to save a Photograph in multiple sizes and formats to serve multiple purposes. Here are the ways you will save your photograph:

1) Large Format "High Resolution Printing" - Set the Resolution to 300 or higher without throwing away pixels and set one of the dimensions (width or height) to 4 inch, 5 inch, or 8 inch. Save the image as a tiff file.

2) Web Format "Posting to the Web"- Resize the image to have maximum width of 700 pixels so that it will post nicely to a forum or blog. You will need to throw away pixels in order to do this. Save the image as a jpg file.

2) Thumbnail Format "Web Gallery Thumbnail or Icon"- I want the image to be exactly 60 x 80 pixels, wide or tall. You will need to throw away pixels in order to do this. Save the image as a .gif file twice, once in color and once in grayscale.

You will need save your image three times and in three different formats. I have created video tutorials that will show you this process. Click on the links below:

1. How to Resize and Save an Image for Print as a TIFF
2. How to Resize Save an Image for the Web as a JPG
3. How to Resize and Save an Image as Rollover Gallery Thumbnails as GIFs
4. How to Resize Your Image in Photoshop  
   

More Learning at Lynda

To really give yourself a great backgound in resizing images watch these videos at Lynda.com:

• Section 5. Image Size and Resolution - Photoshop CS5 One-on-One:Fundamentals by Deke McClelland  (all videos)
  

Due Date

The end of week three  

Turning it In

Send me your 4 resized images (tiff, jpg, and two gifs) , as attachments, to my gmail address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The most efficient way is to put all 4 images into a folder, zip the folder, and send me the zipped folder as an email attachment. I will accept the 4 images attached separately too.