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How to reduce image size without sacrificing quality?

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06-14-2009, 08:17 PM
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Reduce size but not the dpi's

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06-16-2009, 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by XENON View Post
most items you use to reduce the size will not affect the quality a lot. but yes i agree to use Microsoft office picture manager
... have you guys ever resized a photo before?

you can't just change the dimensions either. design software can't change the size of a pixel on screen, so it changes the scale of the inch instead, which is why a 300dpi image is 3x as big as it seems.

if you go to view>print size in photoshop, it'll zoom out to the proper 1:1 ratio and show you how big the image will print. if you change the document dimensions, you'll reduce size, because you'll be changing the overall size of the document. it can still be 300 dpi, but it's going to print 4" to small if you change the canvas size from 6x12 to 4x8.

if you're working with print or large format, you're stuck working with large files.

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Can we see the image? I'm sure some of us can compress it in a matter of seconds for you.

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it all depends on what its for though. if it's s a big pdf being printed, you don't want to compress it. size only matters online because people have to download it. if you're printing it, quality takes priority over document size to ensure the best quality print.

if you simply need to move it from one source to another, IE give it to someone else, use usb, or ftp it.

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Originally Posted by americantemplates View Post
Reduce size but not the dpi's
Yes this is what I do aswell, it has never negatively affected the quality of my images.

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