Image resize in Photoshop

Sometimes the images from you digital camera are just too big for to be put on the web or sent via e-mail.

First let me show you how to check the picture properties like size and dimensions.

Go to the folder that contains the picture you want to resize. Click it and hold the mouse cursor over the picture for a second or two till a notification appears.

As you can see my image dimensions are 3879x2570 pixels and the size of it is 5 Mega Bytes (MB).

Another way to see the image properties is right click the file and click Properties.

Image properties window appears now click the Details tab.

Now you can see even more information about your file/image, like the camera it was taken with, exposure time, iso, etc...

Ok, let's do the actual resizing now.

In Photoshop, open the image you want to resize.

Click Image and Image Size (Alt+Ctrl+I for a keyboard shortcut)

Image size Window pops up. You can see the dimensions of the image 3879 x 2570 just like we've seen it under file properties.

Put a check on all three options (Scale Styles, Constraint Proportions, Resample Image) and choose Bicubic Sharper (best for Reduction) under Resample Image.

Now reduce the Width of the image.

I've set it to 1024 pixels.

You probably noticed when you changed the Width the Height changed proportionally as well. That's because you checked the Constrain Proportions option in the previous step.

Let's save the resized image under a new name.

Click File and Save As (Shift+Ctrl+S for a keyboard shortcut)

Enter a name and click Save.

Reduce the quality a bit to save some extra space and click OK.

I've set it to 8, the image quality will is still be high and the file size smaller.

Your image is now resized. If you click it in Windows Explorer you the  size should be now smaller.

Mine is now 200 Kilo Bytes (KB) and before it was 5 MB
which is 5120 KB, that means about 6 time smaller then the original.