Resizing Images - to Medium format and Thumbnails

The following are the steps you need to follow to digitise your photos for your web gallery

1. Create a folder - Images and copy all the images into the folder. If you do not have enough disc space you will need to bring the images off the USB one at a time.

2. Open Photoshop

3. Open all the images

4. Image Resize command and resize all the images to 1280px wide and then save over the top of the original image, reducing the file size considerably.

5. The next step is to resize the images again into thumbnails, at 200px wide. Then Save As the original filename with an 's.jpg' ie: imagename1s.jpg. You need both images. Do not overwrite the 1280px image.

That's the easy part. The next steps are creating your re-digitised images, using the Photoshop Image Adjustments commands and Filters (not Liquify).

6. Open your first image and decide how you will digitise it.

You can need to make three separate changes to the same original image and save each change as follows:
6.1 Save it as the filename1_1.jpg. (1st change).

The second digitised image of the same original as the filename1_2.jpg (2nd change).

The third digitised image of the same original as the filename1_3.jpg (3rd change).

6.2. When all 20 images have been done, re-open them and resize them to 200px wide and save as the image filename, but with an 's' on the end , so to avoid overwriting the original 1280px image.

The thumbnail filename1_1.jpg would be saved filename1_1s.jpg .

This way you keep the original image and thumbnail image, as well as the re-digitised image.

7. Do the same for all the images, trying to use as many different filters and image adjustment as you can. But do not use the liquify filter, as it creates too many distortions, especially on people and all the filters used must be used with common sense.

Resizing Images

Montages

Crop Images

Image Adjustments

Use Filters

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