I am basically a computer noob. I know how to do certain, limited things that get me by. When it comes to web development, publishing and even photoshop I am not the best.
I am practicing with ps.

Our webiste (www.filthyrich13.com) needs to go online. It is already built and awaiting content. Now that we finally got our shirts back from the printer we are in business.

We are starting to take photos of the clothing for the webiste ourselves. We have a nice Sony 7.2MP camera and I am very happy with the quality of photos.
My question involves the best type (resolution) for websites. I am very pleased with the quality of the pics at the VGA setting, but I am sure they can be crisper and cleaner.

What is the preferred method of taking photos to web publishing?? What is the best way to resize, edit photos? What is the advantage to using a higher resolution photo??

 

Speed is a huge issue as far as online shopping is concerned. Size of images on a website can severely hinder how fast it loads up. It can also create a headache for the dial-up customers, but nowadays designers are saying to not cater to their needs anymore since most people have broadband now.

One thing I'd do is create a link to the images you want, such as a small thumbnail. There's an XP PowerToy available that'll do this in a snap. As far as editing goes, you probably won't need to change the image much, so there are a few freeware programs out there that'll do what you need. Some are going to suggest Photoshop, but I think a $600 bundle of software is a little overkill for just cropping and resizing.

 

Most people with money have broadband now they mean . (live near a larger population center + want to pay $30 instead of $10 for dialup if they don't need it)

Last time I checked it was close to half of all US internet users were dial-up.

 

you could get photoshop elements, it's much less expensive. sure it's a lot just for cropping and resizing, but when you really get into it you'll want to touch up the photos too and take advantage of the other tools.

it has a "save for web" option which makes it easy to set the size and quality of the photo. it's convenient.

but churnd is right, decent quality thumbnails with higher quality full-size pics is a good way to go. you don't need to go with the highest possibly resolution on your camera, but one that'll just show the product as well as you want on screen. if it were for print, that's another story.

 

Photoshop has a feature that will automatically "thumbnail" your photos for web publishing.

 

I ask about what reluoution/ MP because I see some photos posted on YT that are huge- they don't even fit on the screen. Perhaps I am a little confused about resolution and size. Can you have a high res pic that fits the screen and doesn't take forever to load??

 

The type of image you use can also affect download time. Stick with .jpg or .gif format and you should be ok. As for what resolution size to use for the full size pics, I'd go with a 800x600 or 640x480. 1024x768 would be pushing it. If you're getting a lot of traffic on the site, that's when you'll start noticing download times being affected, and the bigger images will take that much longer to download.

 

here's a good explanation on screen resolution and image sizes:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/P...esolution.html

 

dont forget... monitor is only 72 DPI...