How To Resize Images for a website

This picture was resized using picassa to 240 pixels width size 7k.
Original size 640 size 69k

Images need to be resized, so they are not too big. As a rule keep it less than 50K. (600 pixel width). If you have more pics on the page they should be smaller.

You can download for free Picasa from Google this gives an option of reducing size and croping.

Adobe Photoshop is much better with more features, you can save for web which is useful. With Adobe select phot then edit - resize photo. The advantage here is that you can see the size of the picture whilst editing before saving.

 but Picasa does the job adn its free.

NEW:: Resizing Images using standard Plone scaling See:  ATImage Tips

• This is a simple way of resizing images without having to use any photo tool like adobe or Picassa

Exporting / Resizing an Image using Picassa

•  Once you have cropped the picture you can then export it as a small file size before uploading it to your Church Edit website. If you have not cropped the image, then you can follow the next few steps to reducing the size of your image.

•  With the image selected in Picasa, go to File > Export to Folder.

•  Under Windows the default export folder will be My Picture\Picasa Exports\FOLDER NAME.

• When you export the picture to your folder you can change size to say 300 pixels.

•  Press OK to export save the changes and export the image.

•  Now the image is exported as a smaller file size you can upload it to Sri Chinmoy Centre

•  Don't forget that you will need to select the exported version of the photo (Ie My Documents\Picasa Exports\FOLDER NAME\IMAGE NAME).

TIP : If you have a large number of photos that you want to reduce in size then you can do this in one go. Select all the photo thumbnails in Picasa that you want to reduce the size of. Select File > Export to Folder. Change the Resize Option to 600 and then press OK. This will then create smaller copies of all the photos that you have selected.