Dear Debbie. . .

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

RAWs in a Batch?

Dear Debbie,

I have a bunch of RAW files that I want to e-mail as small JPEGs. Normally I’d make an Action and batch process the images, but I can’t do that with RAW files. Help!

Thanks for your help,
Impatient in Little Rock, AK