HOW TO ‘SIZE’ YOUR FILE FOR COMPETITIONS

These notes are supplied only as basic guidance to anyone who wishes to enter our competitions and may require some assistance. There are several different ways to do everything in Photoshop, and several different image-editing programs to use too.

 

  
  Using Photoshop & Elements-

Remember if you have done work in layers in photoshop you should ‘flatten’ the image before resizing - LAYER > FLATTEN

(a) file > open 
and ‘left mouse-click’ on ‘your chosen file’ and click ‘OPEN’

(b) image > mode > rgb colour & 8 bits
(In Elements - if you are not prompted on opening, convert to 8 bits)

(c) image > image size
(In Elements – image > resize > image size)
and tick all three boxes - ‘Scale Styles’, ‘Constrain Proportions’ and ‘Resample Image’ and choose one of the ‘Bicubic’ options (if you are not sure then just select ‘bicubic’) (note - older versions of Photoshop only have two boxes, tick both of these and carry on as above)

(d) still in the image size palette; you require to set the PIXEL DIMENSIONS-

If a ‘landscape’ (horizontal) image in ‘Pixel Dimensions’ > Width > type ‘1024’
(the height will be automatically filled in)

or 

If a ‘portrait’ (vertical) image in ‘Pixel Dimensions’ > Height > type ‘1024’
(the width will be automatically filled in) and left mouse click ‘OK’

(e) you are now ready to save: 
file > save as

(f) create a ‘new folder’ by left mouse clicking on the folder icon (if you are not sure which icon, hold your cursor over the icon to find the right one) & type in your ‘Name’, (just type where you see ‘New Folder’ appear) and then press the ‘RETURN’ key 

(g) type in your ‘filename’, select ‘jpeg’ from the ‘format’ drop down list
click ‘SAVE’ 

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For club competitions, please use the following format:

Open a new Folder on your USB memory stick and name it ‘Open 1’ or ‘Open 2’ or whichever competition you are going to be competing in.

Click on the folder and save your image in that. Please put the title first and follow with a underscore followed by your Club number. This will make it easier to know which competition you are entering your images.

So Folder >  Open 1 – The Bridge_77, which means your image of ‘The Bridge’ will be for competition Open 1, your Club number is 77, which makes it easier to recognise members images.

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