Before you publish an image on the site, whether it is an image in an article, a product photo or an image for a photo gallery, you need to prepare it. Preparation means two operations – resizing the image (height and width) and compressing the image to the minimum size (taking into account the quality of the image). Why do you need to do this? Let’s give a simple example – a photo made by a digital camera or a cell phone can have a width of several thousand pixels. If you insert such an image on the site, then when showing the visitor it will still be reduced to the size of the viewing area, but the browser of the computer (or cell phone) will spend computing resources to scale the photo. In addition, such an image will be slower to load. So it is better to zoom out the image. In this short article we will tell you why.
Of course, the best option will be to use any graphic editor, for example PaintNet. In addition to directly resize the editor will allow you to trim unnecessary image honors (if any), return or reflect images, make color correction and much more. But what if a person does not know how to use graphic editors? In this case to help will come online services to reduce images. Services such there are quite a lot. Let’s consider a few of the most convenient of them.
The possibilities of this service are huge – it allows you to perform many operations with images. You can resize, compress, return, mirror, add text and stickers, use different graphic filters.
In order to resize an image, you need to upload an image by clicking the “Select File” button and after uploading the image, set the necessary settings.
Most often the JPG format is used for images, which gives an acceptable image quality with a strong enough compression. To select the JPG format, click on the drop-down list.
This is where you should choose the necessary dimensions for the image. It should be noted that the service supports proportional resizing. That is, it is enough to specify one of the necessary parameters – length or width, the author will be changed proportionally. In the input window we specify the necessary size of the image – for example, the width of 1000 pixels.
A pixel is a point in a digital image. Everything you see on a monitor screen or digital camera display is made up of pixels. When people talk about the resolution of a digital image or the size of a digital image, they mean the number of pixels along the length and height of the image. Generally, the more pixels an image contains, the larger and higher quality it can be printed on a printer or displayed on a monitor. Most monitors have a resolution of 72 pixels per inch (ppi), some advanced models may have 80 or 85 ppi. Thus, for an image published online and viewed on a monitor or cell phone display, you should select a resolution of 72 ppi.
After selecting the settings, click the start button. This will open a page where you can download the resulting image.
http://pichold.ru/
This service is only for resizing an image and (if necessary) storing it. As it says on the site, “After uploading the file, you will receive a secret link to a page to view the image. The file will be automatically deleted from our server 1 month after the last viewing via the secret link.”
Working with this service is much easier than with IM2GO. Just choose an image, specify the required size and click the “Reduce image” button.
That’s all. Using one of these services, you can get an image of the required size for publication.