Which way is better.

[swa101]

Forgive me if this has been asked before but I am new here and I'm having a hard time navigating the site. In order to post my layouts, I have to resize and reduce quality. So, should I reduce the quality then resize or the other way around? Which would give me the best results? TIA.

Sara

[Tbog]

What program do you use ? I use PSP and PSE, and in both, I just resize the DPI, then the dimensions.

[tlccreates]

Forgive me if this has been asked before but I am new here and I'm having a hard time navigating the site. In order to post my layouts, I have to resize and reduce quality. So, should I reduce the quality then resize or the other way around? Which would give me the best results? TIA.

Sara

I don't know what program you are using, I can only say what works for me:
FotoFusion is my main prog for LOs: when I render for posting at sites I save a file that is 72dpi and about 70% quality, that brings the 12x12 down to postable size.

Photoshop has a "save for web" feature that will set the resolution and then you set the pixels size, 600x600 is good, and then Optimize for 120kb size.

[tlccreates]

One tip
when you save for web posting add "4web" to the file name. Firstly because you won't overwrite the main file, which would be a real bummer. and Second, it is easy to see which files are small ones and which are the printable ones when you are looking in the windows explorer.