Resizing For Web ???

I don't understand your result.
Could you post a screenshot of your 'save for web' dialog?
I don't get significant differences between Elements and Faststone (very good!) in speed or size.
For instance, a 3.6 Mo (4896 x 3264) converted to 1250 pix:
- 95  ko jpeg inferior
- 160 ko jpeg middle
- 300 ko jpeg high

My gosh......., that is a tall order for someone as ignorant as I; now I am gonna have to learn the what and how of screenshots.

I just looked a few days ago and I ?think? my version of FastStone is 5.5; whatever it is, I know it is fairly recent.


What you said about quality levels got me to thinking that maybe I inadvertently used a lower quality level in FastStone; so, I took a look at jpeg "settings" and here is what I see:  quality slider on 90, color subsampling = High (which at first glance leads the unwary to think that means high image quality; but, on closer examination, I believe it actually may be the lowest quality setting); whatever, the images look good on the old laptop's screen.

By the way, my purpose for resizing the images is that I have resurrected the wife's long-forgotten laptop and decided that it would be a good portable means of displaying our "keeper" pictures; it doesn't have much storage capacity, so I figured the downsized images would require less room. 

I will make a few practice runs using the other color subsampling choices and see what happens; I just bet that you have hit the nail right on the head and a higher setting will yield images closer in KB size to the E7 results.

Thanks so much.





On EDIT:     I just ran the images through FastStone again and this time I selected "disable" in the color subsampling list of choices; thus, a 375KB (High subsampling) image became  674KB

I then compared these side-by-side and to my eye there is no difference whatsoever when viewing in "best fit" (fit to screen)

There may be noticable difference if I had zoomed way in but that is not my intended purpose for these images.


Thanks everyone.

BuckSkin, once you get the hang of using PrtScn (+Alt will only copy the Active window rather than a complete copy of what you see on your screen) and the Snipping Tool, you'll realise how much that learning to use these tools are worth all the not-very-hard work

Thanks for the bit about "ALT"; I probably never would have figured it out on my own. 

I would really be stumbling around in the dark if it were not for all of you really helpful people on here; a book would not hold everything you guys have taught me thus far and we have only scratched the surface of my poor empty skull. 

I appreciate your concern; but in reality, I actually figured myself as the smartest man alive until my wife (most likely the smartest woman alive) insisted on us moving out of the 1940s and getting a computer and the internet; prior to that, I didn't think it was humanly possible for one person to be any smarter than I thought I was.

Then, a few years ago, we got a computer; and, of course, that required us connecting to the outside world via the internet; then, I got her "one of those good cameras"; and, seeing as how I kept monopolizing her new camera, I got myself a good used one just like it on Ebay; then lurking in a drawer that hadn't been looked in in years, we found the fifteen-year-old brand-new-in-the-box PS Elements 7 that her sister had given her for Christmas some fifteen years ago; and, that soon led to more than a dozen other "free" photo doctoring programs; not to mention PDF readers, word-pads, video converters, movie makers, DVD makers, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Chrome, and Windows XP, and Windows 7, and Ebay, and Amazondotcom, and more, and more; and, all of a sudden, I went from being the smartest man alive to being probably the most bewildered person on the internet.

My poor old brain, for years safe and complacent in the knowledge that it already knew far more than it would ever need to know, possibly even a bit conceited and arrogant, has had to absorb more in the last few years than was already in there back when I used to be the smartest man alive.


It is truly amazing; will the wonders of the modern world never cease; a few years ago, when we got running water and flush toilets, I thought we were on the precipice of modern technology............little did I know.

Hi BuckSkin
Just as an added note re Snipping Tool, whatever you snip is immediately on the clipboard, so you could have omitted loading it into Elements and gone straight to WordPad, pasted (Ctrl+V) and printed/Saved.

Another thing to note is that you can 'draw' arrows, circles etc onto the image in Snipping Tool (before or after initial snip) and paste your markings too. ie, everytime you add/remove anything in the Snip window will be automatically held on the clipboard which can be pasted. So, you could do an intial Snip, paste this image, then draw on the image and paste the marked image too, all without saving first, if wanted.

You can also erase part of the image, highlight words etc. See the tools at the top of the window and play around with them to experiment. You'll just love it all

Hope that makes sense
Julie