Reduction for Facebook

[AWC]

Damien,  

I read in one of your articles you say not to use Image -> Image Size to reduce a picture size, but to use the crop tool.

Given my camera creates images at 5472 x 3648 pixels - to reduce to 960 pixels wide, do you just use the crop tool with

Width set to 960 and the height and resolution left blank?  I'm finding using Image -> Image size degrades the quality a bit.

Thanks,

Andy

[Damien Symonds]

14 minutes ago, AWC said:

to reduce to 960 pixels wide, do you just use the crop tool with Width set to 960 and the height and resolution left blank?

Yep, definitely the easiest way.

However ...

15 minutes ago, AWC said:

I'm finding using Image -> Image size degrades the quality a bit.

... this shouldn't be.  Can you describe what you're seeing?

[AWC]

35 minutes ago, Damien Symonds said:

However ...

... this shouldn't be.  Can you describe what you're seeing?

User error on my part.  I'm so used to hitting Ctrl-0 to resize the image, I hadn't twigged that after making it 960px wide, Ctrl-0 is making it bigger than 100% on my 24" monitor.  

Just tried both ways and at 100% they are identical.  I'll get used to hitting Ctrl-1 (100% zoom) instead.

(also, whilst I'm here, these two pages aren't showing for me - tried two computers and same on both, so they may have gone walkabout https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs2.html and https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html )

Thanks as always,

Andy

 

[Damien Symonds]

Oh crap, thank you.