Preparing Images for Viewing on the Web
Scrapbooking is the creative arrangement of photos, clippings, memorabilia, stickers, ribbons and other embellishments on cards, albums, boxes and other items. Creating a web scrapbook for online viewing has become a popular way of sharing images.
Collecting your images can be done by scanning existing photos or capturing photos directly from a digital camera. As the usage of digital cameras is becoming more popular people are posting their images online directly from their camera creating online scrapbooks. Websites have emerged that are dedicated exclusively to the process of posting and sharing images online.
In haste to post images people often fail to properly resized or resample images prior to uploading to the web. Some websites will automatically rotate, crop, resize and resample an image. When an image is not the correct file size for its usage it takes longer for the web page to be viewed in your browser. The person viewing your web page soon becomes impatient and leaves your site.
Images from a digital camera are often too large a file size to post on the web, send in an e-mail to a friend, or post in a web scrapbook. The instructions below show you how to properly resize and resample a photo using the photo-editing application called Adobe Photoshop CS4, Version 11. As you start posting more images online from your digital camera, you will want to automate the process for quicker resizing and resampling of your images.
So launch your Adobe Photoshop CS4 application and follow these steps.