How to make an image smaller but without losing quality?

[bernard88371280]

Hello everyone!

I'm making a drawing with the image size of 2550px wide and 1774px long, and a resolution of 300, but the website asks me for a .JPG image that must be less than 800px wide and 1280px long, and the file can be up to 2MB.

But trying to malually resize the image to that size makes the image looks dirty, and making the drawing on that image size looks bad.

Any tips?

Thank your for your time!

[Bojan Živković]

What you mean by manually resize? Did you tried to use Image > Image Size?

[bernard88371280]

Still looks as bad as before after using image > Image Size...

Is there a way to bump the file size up to increase the quality?

[Zaid Al Hilali]

For the purpose of posting images to the net, it is better to use Save for Web option which you may find under File menu in earlier Photoshop versions, or if you have latest CC version you can find it hidden now under File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy).

This save for web will give you all the controls to reduce size, quality, remove metadata from the image to reduce image size and it will give you the option to display up to 4-up for image comparison.

See if the website allow PNGs or JPEGs only and try to experiment under Save for Web till your image reaches the 2MB limit.

[bernard88371280]

Tried with PNG's and JPEG's, it does only acept JPGs.

[bzareenk]

Thats how you resize your images whether large or small.

Resize an image |

[bzareenk]

What is the resolution that you are converting it to for your website?

[bernard88371280]

Already tried it and the image looks dirty compared to the original.

[Zaid Al Hilali · Accepted solution]

I suppose when you say dirty you mean JPEG artifacts showing, which means you have gone far in downgrading the image. You need to zoom at 100% as you reduce JPEG quality, but generally 60% will not show those artifacts. So how much did you set the quality?

[bernard88371280]

Thanks! I'm going to try remake the original drawing in a smaller image size closed to the target size.

[bernard88371280]

The website doesn't say anything about resolutions, but I'm doing it with 300 while resizing.

[D Fosse]

Just to get it out of the way: Forget about ppi. It doesn't matter. Pixels per inch is strictly for print, it's moot for screen/web.

You should only be concerned with number of pixels. As such, any reduction in that number will naturally lose information - but furthermore, the rescaling tends to soften sharp edges. This can partly be regained by careful sharpening (not too much!) after resampling.

And then of course there is jpeg compression artifacts. Don't compress too much. At a target filesize of 2MB for those pixel dimensions, there should be no need for any aggressive compression. 6 to 8 should normally be well below 1 MB.

Use Save For Web or Export to strip excessive metadata. This can sometimes bloat file size.

[samuel.web]

The simplest solution to this problem that I often do, it's to open your image, you zoom the image at the format of your taste and you press on keyboard '' print sreen ''. After, you copy your print screen image in Paint app and you save your image in JPG. This greatly reduces the weight and size without losing too much vision quality.

[Darrow33642552rcjw]

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