How to Resize Image for the Web?

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What size we need to make our pictures for posting on a website and even sending by email for viewing on a computer screen? If you have a typical 17" computer monitor, the native resolution is 1280x1024 Pixels, to view an image on a screen you want it to be just a little bit smaller.

 

Why you want smaller images?
There would be several reasons. First, someone who is viewing your pictures might have an older computer and a smaller screen, such as screen set to 800x600. Second, you are probably going to post the images on your blog or Facebook account.

 

How small the pictures need to be?
If you might use the photos online, then in most cases, 600px is an ideal size for viewing web images. Why 600? Facebook allows a maximum size of 604px (and actually resizes them to this size if you upload anything any bigger). A 600px size photo is general large enough to see details in it on the screen and usually has a file size of around 100k. It is easy to send to your friends' inbox.

 

Posting on blog
There are some instances where you might need to have smaller images than 600px for displaying on the web, such as posting a photo in your blog. A lot of blogs have a fixed width and a 600px image might "blow out" the side. If your blog has a fixed size, you might need to experiment on what size you need and a good starting point is 350px.

 

 

For all the above knowledge, you get to know what size of pictures you can upload to your Facebook, Flickr and post on your blog. Get to know how to resize image with image resize tool. You can also easily to upload your pictures to Facebook, Flickr, Rapishare after resizing through the program.

 

Tips: get to know more about pixels and DPI & PPI here.

• What Means Pixel?
• What Means DPI and PPI?

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