Dear Debbie. . .

Contest Winner: Kristin MacBride is a Better Graphic Designer than I Am!

In a slightly belated fashion, I am pleased to announce the winner of the "I'm a Better Graphic Designer Than Debbie Grossman" contest. It is Kristin MacBride, of Texas! She won both because her design was the best of all the entries, and because she explained how to do it in a simple, easy-to-follow fashion.

Check out her instructions, after the jump.

Before You Install CS3...

If you use a Mac and installed any version of the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, clear it off before you install the real thing. Adobe has this script to help you do it. If you just dump it in the trash, you'll be sorry.

Good Question: How Do I Downsize a Photo for Email?

Dear Debbie,

Long ago I saved an article from your magazine describing how to e-mail photos, Photos in the Fast Lane, and I have been doing it that way since. However, it is a multi-step process in which you: make a copy, save the copy at the highest image quality (12), lower the resolution to 72dpi, reduce the image dimensions to no more than 6 inches high or wide, sharpen the image, then do another save as at a lower quality setting of 5-6. Finally it is under 100K!

Is there any quick and easy way of doing this, especially if you want to do a lot at once, such as in the Batch processing or something like that? I'm using Photoshop CS2.

Thank you,
Photo Slowpoke