I’m trying not to sacrifice image quality.

I’ve been using PS6 for a while now and I’ve always struggled with trying not to sacrifice image quality with reasonable file sizes. I normally use a image size default setting of 800x600 with a resolution of 300 pixels/inch for most of my work. But when saving for the web or using Image Ready to slice up more complex images I always have to bring the quality of the image down to about 25-35 to get some reasonable file sizes. With this I get a lot of fuzzy images. My question should I be doing something different from the start regarding my image size and resolution. Are there any other setting I should consider when optimizing the final image.

Thanks, :confused:

300 pixel and inch is pretty high for internet images... you dont need to go that high. I always work at 72 and i see no problems with my image quality, or have i had any complaints. And if you do work with a much lower ratio you wont have to bring down the quality very much, if at all, so you will have nice pretty images too look at.

Hi there,

i once worked at a poster with the resolution 300 px/inch and then the clinet wanted to post that image on a website. The psd was pretty big and when i clicked save for web ps say...take care the image you want to save for web was not made for something like that...you'll need a lot of memory...thinks like that. If youre work won't get printed then you must lower the resolution at 72 as redeye says. If you want to print the image and save it for websites then you shoul make two versions.

Adrian.

Does it make any difference if start with 300dpi and then change your image resolution to 72 or 96 dpi and adjust the image size according to maintain the original 800x600 when you are ready to publish to the web.

basically anything above 72 ppi is not going to make any difference for the web. Your monitor only displays at 72 ppi so if its 96 or 300 your just making the file larger for no reason. You will see the image size get smaller when you lower the resolution, and if you print it, it will be a lower resolution, but for screen display, everything you see on the web is 72. and remember when you choose a resolution number in PS you are choosing ppi, not dpi.
Try posting something and we can check how much of a download it is....