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

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The Trouble With Upsampling

Dear Debbie:

I submitted some photographs for possible use at a web stock agency and they sent me an email saying, "Please don't upsample your images.  This severely degrades the quality. This image contains undue artifacts when viewed at full size."

I shoot digitally and use Photoshop to resize my photographs. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong! 

Can you help?

Thanks,
A Sizable Problem