How do I shrink an image in photoshop without losing image quality? (For the web)?

Question

I run a blog on blogspot, and I want to add pictures into this blog. However, I want them all to have the same width (whether they are portrait or landscape) to keep my blog looking uniform. The space I have, means my images can only be roughly 15cm wide (width), and in order to post them as 'original size' I need to adjust the size in photoshop. However, this obviously loses a lot of the images quality, making it look very poor because of the lack of pixels! I know this is possible, because so many other bloggers have done it!

I save it for the web, as a PNG24, and the highest quality there is! (10)

Any suggestions would be HIGHLY appreciated! Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Why are you using real-world measurements for online work? Figure out what dimensions *in pixels* you need your work to be. The current trend seems to be a total width of no more than 1000 pixels.



Keep in mind that you can easily create thumbnail-sized images (often somewhere between 100–300 pixels wide and tall) that you can link to the full size images (whatever size you want). Some people still have slow connections or slow computers, and won't appreciate having to wait for a page filled with full-size PNGs to load.



Unless you are absolutely sure you need PNG (screenshots, flat-colored artwork), high-quality JPEGs will save on transfer speeds without losing much quality. Turning camera shots into PNG just makes the filesizes much larger with little to no gain in quality.

Answer 2

Something is weird there. If you are saving as png24, you should not be getting a quality setting option that would include 10.



And sizing down should not really be hurting your image quality much, no matter what.



How are you sizing the images down?

Answer 3

When I work somthing for the online,, i love to transform all my drawings into vector structure. Making use of illustrator , flash or any vector application, then i do not need to fear about scaling them to any measurement i need.