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Hi guys! whats the best way to compress photos for a website. without losing its quality?
Chaz Photos
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what software have you got?
It more about understanding what your doing then anything else so after we know what you have can then say best way
Forbiddenbiker
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Common way ish, ....is to resize for the display size, (like 800px on longest edge) (I also re-sharpen at this stage) ... then have a look for the 'save for web' under an edit tab usually ... choose your quality, high med or low ...save... done.
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Pretty much whatever way you compress a photo, you'll reduce the quality. The usual ways are to reduce it's size (dimensions) in terms of pixels from say 3000 x 2000 for a 6MP sensor to 600 x 400 for web use. That's an immediate drop in pixels from 6,000,000 to 120,000. Once you've done that, either save for web or save as (the select a level of compression that leaves enough quality but reduces the file size to an acceptable level) in photoshop (including elements). BTW, if you're looking for sotware, photoshop elements is a lot cheaper than lightroom at around £55 for the latest version (8).