Resizing photos for online viewing only?

daveminnich

Senior Member
I’m looking for some advice on resizing settings for sending photos to clients to use for online purposes (posting to Facebook etc.) but NOT for printing. In other words, a good general size that would be too small to make prints of, but big enough for online viewing.
I was thinking 1000px on the longest edge?

 
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I’m looking for some advice on resizing settings for sending photos to clients to use for online purposes (posting to Facebook etc.) but NOT for printing. In other words, a good general size that would be too small to make prints of, but big enough for online viewing.
I was thinking 1000px on the longest edge?

Here is what Facebook says about it.
[h=3]https://www.facebook.com/help/266520536764594/[/h]
I set mine to 1280 on the long side and 72 pixels per inch and that is what I use here and on Facebook and the quality hold up quite well. I have Lightroom do the resizing.
 

daveminnich

Senior Member
Here is what Facebook says about it.
[h=3]https://www.facebook.com/help/266520536764594/[/h]
I set mine to 1280 on the long side and 72 pixels per inch and that is what I use here and on Facebook and the quality hold up quite well. I have Lightroom do the resizing.

Yep I'll definitely resize when exporting from LR. Just want to find a good size to stick with for digital copies. The goal being to retain full printing rights so that if clients want prints they need to buy them from me.


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Yep I'll definitely resize when exporting from LR. Just want to find a good size to stick with for digital copies. The goal being to retain full printing rights so that if clients want prints they need to buy them from me.


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1000 px on the long side should work well. Now I am sure someone will come along and disagree with me on the 72 PPI and say that does not matter but that is what I set mine to. That also give you a smaller file size. Look and any of my photos here and that is the settings I used.

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Blade Canyon

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In addition to size and pixel count, your color profile for online will work best on the most devices if you export in sRGB. The Adobe color profile is not recognized on some devices (including my Samsung tablet and phone), and JPEGs look flatter if exported in Adobe on those devices. I set up this Flickr album with one shot sRGB and the other Adobe. If they look the same on your device, it supports both, but I've been surprised how many devices make the Adobe shot much less vivid. (I should say the Adobe RGB is not properly rendered on some devices...)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/41728000@N08/albums/72157654408152976/with/18563006119/



 
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Danno

Senior Member
I used 1000 on the long edge and 72 pixels... I have since raised the long edge some. I cannot pull back the number right now.

I know this works to prevent printing because my ex-wife was forced to contact me. She tried to steal some photos that I had taken of my granddaughters and print them to make gifts for Christmas... She had tried to download them and took them to Walmart to print, but they looked bad...

I did end up giving her the photos. But it was nice confirmation that the size did not print well.
 
I used 1000 on the long edge and 72 pixels... I have since raised the long edge some. I cannot pull back the number right now.

I know this works to prevent printing because my ex-wife was forced to contact me. She tried to steal some photos that I had taken of my granddaughters and print them to make gifts for Christmas... She had tried to download them and took them to Walmart to print, but they looked bad...

I did end up giving her the photos. But it was nice confirmation that the size did not print well.


You should have charged her double. LOL
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
In addition to size and pixel count, your color profile for online will work best on the most devices if you export in sRGB. The Adobe color profile is not recognized on some devices (including my Samsung tablet and phone), and JPEGs look flatter if exported in Adobe on those devices. I set up this Flickr album with one shot sRGB and the other Adobe. If they look the same on your device, it supports both, but I've been surprised how many devices make the Adobe shot much less vivid. (I should say the Adobe RGB is not properly rendered on some devices...)
Processing in Adobe RGB used to frustrate the daylights out of me but I've finally managed to come to terms with it. I continue to process in Adobe RGB then convert to sRGB when exporting to JPG; it's an extra couple of clicks in Photoshop, but I'm over it (generally).
 

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
Every time I think I get it, I get confused.
So, which color space does the camera need to be on?
As usual... It depends.

If you shoot JPG and you're in doubt, shoot in sRGB. That's my advice in a nutshell. This will simply make life easier all the way around.

If you shoot raw, it doesn't matter what color profile you set your camera to since raw files don't have color until they are assigned a color profile. Your raw files open in color on your computer, but only because the software you're using has a default color profile (probably sRGB) that it applies when you open a raw file to view or process it. I shoot raw and I choose to open my raw files in Adobe RGB, as well as process in Adobe RGB, because Adobe RGB has a much larger palette than sRGB does. However, in choosing to process in Adobe RGB an extra step is required so my final image displays correctly on the Web. That extra step is converting the image from Adobe RGB to sRGB before saving it as a .JPG for online viewing. Some browsers and such do not display Adobe RGB correctly, hence the extra step. My full-size, full-resolution TIFF files I leave in Adobe RGB. Most printing labs prefer you use sRGB as well.

Clear as mud?
....
 

Dawg Pics

Senior Member
[MENTION=13090]Horoscope Fish[/MENTION]
Actually, that is the best, concise explanation I have read. Not muddy at all. Thanks a bunch.
 

STM

Senior Member
If you ask 10 people you might get 10 different answers. I have found out through experience that publishing images on FB will reduce their quality noticeably. I don't know what they use to resample photos but images published on FB look over-sampled and over-sharpened to me.

I would not bother to go above 1000px on the long side and if you are using Photoshop, save them with 72 dpi quality instead of 300.
 
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