Resizing / Printing Photos
I've just started shooting in Raw format with my 300D and enjoy how easy it is to adjust contrast, white balance etc. The thing I'm still not sure how to do well in Photoshop is resize for printing and for the web. I wanted to print some 8 x 12's at Costco and they allow for a maximum file size of 6mb. Right now I have been using Raw Essentials to do the basic adjustments of my photo, save it as a .tiff into Photoshop, make my other more specific adjustments and then saving as a .jpeg. Is this the best way?
I've also tried scaling some photos down and saving them as smaller .jpegs (~250kb file size) and I notice a substantial decrease in the quality. I'm wondering what some of the photographers on here do (Ben, Graham, Melinda etc.) as far as resizing and saving for the web. Do you initially save as .tiff and then scale down and save as .jpeg or what is your process from Raw -> Web?
Thanks in advance!
Re: Resizing / Printing Photos
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Originally posted by davidI
I'm wondering what some of the photographers on here do (Ben, Graham, Melinda etc.) as far as resizing and saving for the web.
Sorry for not being one of them, but... ;)
For printing at 8X12 (largest I've had done so far), I went to Photo Experts in TD Square. Pricey, but they do a great job. No max filesize, they were totally willing to print my 30MB .psd files if I wanted.
If you really want to use Costco, then your filesize does come into play. To be honest, the 6MB limit is silly. Is that the limit for uploads from the Web, or the limit for files on memory cards that are taken to the store? I'd suspect that if you put the .tiff files on a memory card and take them to the store directly, filesize wouldn't be an issue. Considering you probably want the best quality out of your prints, I'd take the extra time to take the full-quality images to them directly.
Now, when you convert to Jpeg from Raw, the Jpeg file should be much smaller. When I save a full-size Jpeg at Q. level 10 in Photoshop, the file is around 2MB, which is easily under the 6MB limit. I'm not too familiar with .tiff format, but I'm not convinced you'll see a marked improvement on an 8X12 print with a tiff file instead of a jpeg.
As far as saving for the Web goes, I just edit as Jpeg, resize to whatever size (usually 900Xwhatever) and save as a regular Jpeg. (I don't use Save for Web, since that strips EXIF data.) Upload to Photobucket, job done.
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Originally posted by BerserkerCatSplat
...I don't use Save for Web, since that strips EXIF data.) Upload to Photobucket, job done.
EXIF...is that the information about what camera took the picture...etc?..or something else?