Many times you will take a photo with the camera sideways and need to rotate the image, or you will scan it in upside-down by accident. Secondly, make sure that the Resolution is set at 72 pixels/inch which is the standard for the web. Note, that while the Constrain Proportions box is checked, it will automatically adjust the height as you adjust the width and vice versa so as to keep the aspect ratio of the image correct. You can adjust the size of the image using the top two boxes for width and height. This will bring up the dialog box shown on the right. Once you have decided how big you would like your photo to be, go to the Image Size option in the Image menu (Left). However, if you plan on having it simply added as an element within your page, then you would make it considerably smaller, such as the pictures on this page.

If you want it to be the focus of your web page, then you will probably want it to be relatively large.

You should think about where you plan on placing your image in your web page. Open the image by using the File:Open command and selecting your image.īefore you do anything, to get an idea of the actual size of the image, click on the zoom box in the bottom left hand corner of the screen and adjust this value to 100% by typing in 100 and pressing the enter key. These instructions take into account that you already have an image to work with. Here we will go through a few of the basic steps that you will probably need to take before placing any images into a web page. One of the most common uses for Adobe Photoshop is to prepare images for use on a web page.

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