Quick tips for resizing your images

1. Shoot in raw

The first thing to do is to ensure that you are recording your camera in crude was so image capture as much as possible. JPEG compression and image sharpening "baked in ', so you have a little chance to work on image These in the editing stage.

You can shoot raw and JPEG images simultaneously, so you can quickly check the JPEG images before making on it in your raw Editor - Keep in mind that even though you were seeing preview or when the raw JPEG image on-screen check the back of the camera.

Your camera may be able to shoot in raw format ", which is useful if you have a very short space on the memory card, but still want to have more details.

2. Batch process

While the most appropriate image editor allows you to change the size quickly and save Raw images from the original, Lightroom makes it very easy.

The first step is to locate where your pictures - if you saved the image you have selected Smart collection or a collection, this should be simple, or you can select a series of images from Lightroom catalog Quickly.

3. Select the size

The rapid development of the panel on the right hand side you can see the ratio Crop function with the pull-down list of sizes. Lightroom, there are a lot of options, but let's make it easy to choose the size generally as printing 5 x 7-inch.

Pick and images of all the selected format is vertical clipping to 5 × 7 (note the horizontal direction will be by Crop automatically to 7 × 5).

4. Set the Output size

Now it's just a process of clicking on exports, so you can specify Photography crop is saved.

However, you will need to set the output size in pixels (width and height). This sounds scary, but it's just simple mathematics. Check this box to resize, and select the "edge of London." For a proportion of 5 × 7, the edge for a long time and that will be the year 2100 (7 × 300).

We choose 300 as we are printing at 300 dots per inch (DPI) for the best print quality. For short, it is usually 5 × 300 = 1500. Note 300dpi is the best size for printing - you set ppi (pixels per inch) for publishing on the web depends on how fast you need to upload images, and other parameters.

5. JPEG and TIFF

Whether you save the original image from the original file JPEG or TIFF; Once again, depends on your specific purpose, but here are a few quick tips.

With JPEG, you can set the resolution to 80% rather than 100%; The difference in quality is negligible but slightly smaller. Meanwhile, with a high quality TIFF uses lossless compression, so you do not end up losing quality as a result of compression.

Please note that TIFF files tend to be quite large and unwieldy, which is why the majority of married and Other commercial photographers to provide digital images to customers, a high resolution JPEG (usually at 300dpi, so they They also printed).