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How to Use Picnik.comto Resize Photosfor Website Upload

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How to Use Picnik.com to Resize Photos for Website Upload

Have you had a need to resize photos or images in order to present them in the

dimension and file size you want on your website? Picnik.com is a website service thatcan allow you to adjust your images in just about any manner you want.

As you are probably aware, most digital photographs and graphics are fairly high qualitywhen stored in a large file size on your camera. When you want to email them, mostemail services can only allow a certain size photo to be attached to the email. Thesmaller file size, the better.

Similarly for web sites, smaller file sizes are preferred since they take less time toupload to the screen for viewing. A larger size file will cause the page to take longer toload, which can be an annoying feature to your visitors, especially if you have many

photos or graphics to display on your web page.

Many applications and web services are available to assist you to manage yourgraphics for web pages. One such service that I use for my web site is Picnik.com. Ithas a section that is available for FREE and another for Premium members. Let medescribe both.

1. Picnik.com Free Service

To utilize the free service, just go to www.picnik.com and register. When you sign in,

you will be able to upload up to 5 pictures at a time. The site is organized by tabs,named Home, Library, Edit, Create, Save & Share.

Home page contains your settings, password change, etc. Library page allow you toget your photo from your computer, history on picnik, a website, Yahoo! Search,WebCam Photo, Picasa Web Albums, Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, Flickr, MySpace,Photobucket, Webs, and Webshot. So you have access to a large number of photosand graphics. In the edit tab, you can do a number of things including, auto-fix, rotate,crop, RESIZE, exposure colors, sharpen, and red-eye. I will talk about the resizefeature in a moment.

Under the Create tab, you can insert backgrounds, effects, text, stickers, touch-up,frames, advanced, seasonal, make a collage, slideshow, widgets, print on photo paper,mugs, calendars, cards, books, wrapping paper, and others. When you have adjustedthe photo or graphic to the extent you want then go to the Save & Share tab. There youcan save to your computer, email photo, Flickr, slideshow, print the photo, email to website, Picasa Web Albums, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Webs, andWebshots.

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2. Picnik.com Premium Service

You can see that there is quite a bit of flexibility available even for the Free section. To join the Premium section, the cost is $24.95 per year which equals $2.08 per month.

You would be able to upload 100 pictures or graphics at a time and gain access tolimitless photo history, professional grade photo editing tools, fullscreen editing andmore.

3. How to use Picnik.com

a. Sign in.

b. Go to the Library tab and chose the source of your photo. If you already have it on

your computer, just go to Upload and select your file photo.

c. Once it is uploaded, select the Edit tab. This is where the fun starts. You can crop,rotate or adjust in any way. Then you can go to the Resize button.

d. The resize feature is the most important element in this section, as far as I amconcerned. It shows you the dimensions of your current photo, ie, 150 x 222 (widthand height). By inputting the new size in the text field, you can change the photo

size. You have the option keep photo percentages or keep proportions or changewidth and length separately.

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e. Consider how large of a photo that you want to appear on you web page. Bigger is

not always better. Sometimes, a large photo sends just the right message. Othertimes, you want a small photo to blend into your written content.

f. Once you resize your photo, click OK and go to Save & Share tab. There you seeyour photo again with the fields and sliders available for you to readjust your photoonce again.

g. You can change the format from one type to another. The JPG format is best formost photos. Other options include PNG - best for archiving, GIF - good for smallphotos, BDP, PDF, and TIFF. Most websites prefer to use JPG.

h. Next select the slider for JPG Compression Quality. By moving the scale between 1and 10, you get a result identifying the quality of your selection. Usually, a readingbetween 6 and 9 are the best for website use.

i. Check the File Size shown just below the slider for each number on the scale. Usuallymost website perform better when its images are 20 KB or less. So you can changethe file size to meet your needs.

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 j. Click Save Photo button on this page and you can select the location where you canto locate this photo.

As an example of what the resizing can do for you, I have used one of my own photos.It is a picture of a scene in Greece that I used on www.enjoy-retirement-jobs.com/ coolest-jobs.html, which is on “Your Coolest Jobs” page. I want to show you how the

photo changes at different settings.

Photo 1:microphone 100x149JPG Compression Quality = 7File Size = 12.8 KBgood quality, medium file size

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Photo 2:microphone 150x222JPG Compression Quality = 7File Size = 14.7 KBgood quality, medium file size

a. If Photo 2 was changed to Quality = 8,then File Size = 15.9 KB, a sweet spot of really good quality and file size.

b. If Photo 2 was changed to Quality = 9,then File Size = 18.0 KB, great quality, big file size.

c. If Photo 2 was changed to Quality = 10,then File Size = 21.6 KB, best quality, huge file size.

Photo 3:microphone 200x296

JPG Compression Quality = 7File Size = 17.8 KB

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Photo 4:microphone 300x445JPG Compression Quality = 7

File Size = 25.2 KB

Once the photo is saved, you are now ready to upload the accurately sized image to

your website for publishing.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch through our Contact Us pageat www.enjoy-retirement-jobs.com/contact-us-enjoy-retirement-jobs.html .

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