What is best way to resize?

I have taken some pictures with my digital camera and when I open them in photoshop they are huge.

I want to rezize them to a normal 4 x 6 photo. I click on image rezize and then the options come up.

What resolution should I use?

Do I Resample Image?

Do I Scale Styles?

Thank you for any advice

It really depends on what you are going to do with the photos, since you say you want a 4x6 I assume you are going to print them.

printing a quality image is going to be resolution dependent... on most inkjet printers you can "get by" with 150 dpi... I suggest 225 dpi minimum

My wifes camera shoots 2048 x 1536 (8.9 x 6.7 inches) at 230 dpi So to get standard 4x6 photos I just change the 8.9 to 6" with the "constrain proportions" ticked and resample ticked----- That gives me a 4x6 at 230 dpi

the Resample image option ticked will increase the resolution as you decrease the image size.

Scale styles "if" you have styles applied to the image.

Yes I want burn them to a disc then take them to the store for print.


Before I resize my picture the properties are...

Pixel Dimensions: 14.2M
Width: 2576 pixels
Height: 1932 pixels

Document Size:
Width: 11.2 inches
Height: 8.4 inches
Resolution: 230


I change the height to 4" and width to 6" and choose Resample: Bicubic Sharper but the picture size is still huge when you view actual size. It is no regular 4x6 photo.

???

Hi

Are you sure you are not viewing the image at 'Actual Pixels' size on screen? Try clicking on 'Print size' in the 'View' drop-down menu and the view on screen will be much closer to the actual print size, but not exactly (depends on the resolution of your monitor)

A good way to re-size images is with the Crop tool. Keep the resampling settings you already have. Click on the Crop tool, then enter the crop size in the boxes in the tool bar (enter '6in' and '4in' - you can change the aspect from landscape to portrait by clicking the arrows between the boxes). Then enter the resolution you want in the box. Drag the Crop tool over the image until you're happy with it, then click the tick in the toolbar or press Enter. to apply the crop. This way will crop to size and apply resolution in one go.

I see now, thank you very much.

Also please make sure you have checked off. "constrain proportions"..not sure if this was mentioned..could have been.

yep, you're right of course. constrain proportions wasn't mentioned.