I reduce with Irfanview. Always check Sharpen when reducing. It does a great job and it's free!! Most people here post images at 800 pixels wide or less. 640 wide works pretty good especially when resized correctly with sharpening. Most of the Flickr crowd is limited to 640 or less. Keeps bandwidth down.
Originally Posted by 1st-Insp
MS Outlook is "not" what you want to use to resize an image. It reduces using a method called "pixel deletion" This may be the reason the light trails from the bomburst look jaggy. Other than that it's a nice bomburst. I would also crop square. The landscape aspect leaves alot of empty space on either side.
Here are some posted earlier this year. http://community.the-digital-picture.com/forums/t/1094.aspx
I posted mine 800 wide. I have a 1920 x 1200 monitor that makes everthing look small. I've learned to be more subtle since.
What specifically are you struggling with?
Welcome to the forum,
Chuck
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