Photoshop Help (Summo ;) )

[~Lazarus~]

Guys,

Trying to do a bit of photo editing using Photoshop v7 on holiday snaps I have. Not much experience on this and either end up with :

1. A file 58MB in size
2. A low quality picture.

What Im trying to do is tidy up the photos to allow printing to standard size photography paper (6" x 4")

"Tidying up" consists of

• 
  removing redeye
  cropping "dead" areas of the photo

Will expand this later to more exotic but for now, the easier the better.

Anyone shed any light on how to do this and recommend the best settings (e.g. pixel quality etc)

Thanks.

 

[Summo]

I've never seen Paint Shop Pro. I only know a tiny fraction of Photoshop, too.

Sorry, Laz.

 

[~Lazarus~]

Originally posted by Summo
I've never seen Paint Shop Pro. I only know a tiny fraction of Photoshop, too.

Sorry, Laz.

*chucked*

Any others?


*feels let down by Summo*

 

[ECA]

I'm fairly sure google has the answer :-]

Failing that, smarties.

 

[Testin da Cable]

if you're going to be printing on a "photo" quality printer then it's best to have a higher dpi count, otherwise 75 is just fine for regular printing iirc.

I like to work photos in as high a dpi as possible, before saving them to a certain size/dpi. paintshop will tell you dpi, image size and all that from properties I seem to recall.

for cropping there's the (uh) "crop tool". looks a bit like two angle brackets connected by a diagonal line. mark out the area you want to keep, doubleclick and presto! you're done

 

[~Lazarus~]

Thanks TeeDee

*Fluffles tdc*

Wilier gave some tips, sO I should be on the ball tonight.

And yes - I will be printing to Photo Quality Paper.

 

[Gef]

Go to Image > Image Size... > Then set the DPI to 300, and the image size to the size you want it printed (6" x 4"), the pixel size will be huge but thats what you need. Then print it, probably easier if you do the editing before you resize it as working with huge images can be slow going.

To crop use the select tool (square with the dotted line) drag a box over the area you want then Image > Crop

If filesize is an issue save it as a JPG with maximum quality then you dont get any loss of quality.

Redeye, drag a circle selection round the eye (hold down mouse on the select tool button to get more shapes) then go to Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation > Check the 'colourise' button and move the sliders around to get the colour you want. Alternatively you can just use a paintbrush to touch it up, but it can get messy.

 

[moomin]

save as PNG since its lossless compression!!!!

 

[Trancor]

I think it depends on how many dpi your printer can print. The higher the better IMO, but their is no point in having huge pictures if your printer can't handle them. I go for a midsize as I only have a lowend printer. Good enough quality as long as the picture isn't grainy.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

If you're saving them to be printed then don't use jpeg, you'll get artifacts of the compression system. Keep them in photoshop format.

Everything else has been covered really.

 

[Gef]

If you save at maximum compression you dont get artifacts, jpeg is a lossy compression method but if you use the 12 setting in Photoshop any loss is completely un-noticable by the human eye.

And you will save yourself a hell of a lot of HD space, even PNG is nowhere near as good compression. For exactly the same results...