Question: I want to send some pictures by e-mail. But how do I reduce the size of photos for Sending in emails or other online use?
Answer: Before reducing the image to your intended size, you can first crop your image to remove any unnecessary portions of the picture. After cropping, you can use the image resizer ArcSoft PhotoStudio, to make photos smaller.
The guide will use image or photo to refer to photo, image, picture, and graphic file.
The image size is often too large to upload online or share on mobiles, iPad, iPhone and other players, or send in emails. Because people shoot pictures in higher resolution than ever before, they always get larger images with high quality. Large images prevent you from emailing or adding online. Reducing image sizes becomes an urgent job to deal with. Most software of photo editing software can handle this. However, when you pick up reducing photo sizes with ArcSoft PhotoStudio, or ArcSoft PhotoStudio for Mac, you will find the quality is kept well.
ArcSoft PhotoStudio is an excellent photo editing software for both casuals and pros. To make photo smaller with it is quite easy. For Mac users with Mac version, reducing image on Mac is as easy as on Windows.
Step One: Import the intended images to PhotoStudio
Step One: Import the intended images to PhotoStudio
Drag and drop your images to the program interface. You can also open from file menu or photo browser. Find "Image Size" from edit menu. Here is an example of an image by 4752*3168. And the intended file size is 1280 pixels Width or 640 pixels Width.
Step Two: Reduce image size
Click "Image Size" from "Edit" menu. And it prompts a window for changing image size and PPI(Pixels per inch). Type your intended size and press OK button. PhotoStudio will always constrain proportions or keep aspect ratio. It prevents your image from being stretched and distorted. So just set the Width value, the other value will adjust automatically.
Change the Width to 1280 pixels, and the Height turns up to 853 pixels automatically. So the original image of 4.42MB is reduced to 1.82MB;If you set the Width to 640 pixels, the image is reduced to only 85.7KB. And the results remain good quality.
Step Three: Save the resized image
Save the resized image and never overwrite your original, high resolution file. Remember to save using a different name so you retain the original image. You had better save it as JPEG or JPG for best compatibility for online sharing.
Usually, when emailing you can save it to 640*480 or less. For display or for print, you need to figure out the size the image will be print at. After resizing photos, you are able to send images fast. Your friends and family will be able to view them and download them quick. So perhaps the best thing is to upload these original images to your web site and allow family and friends to download directly from there.
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