Creating Small Icon Size Picture That Do..

[karmacriminal]

That do not loose ther clarity. I see on allot of sites where there is a ICON size picture of, for example, a screen shot of a web site, but it is very clear on has not lost its clarity. How do you create a small Icon size picture like this?

 

Example at this site: askmen look at the center fo the page at the small icon pictures.

[TCH-Sales]

I'd say the first thing you'd need is an image editor with a good "resizer" tool included. I've personally been pretty happy with PSP7 (especially since I got a $60 rebate from Amazon.com) and it has that built in.

 

Also, if your picture seems a little fuzzy when you downsize it, you might try sharpening the image to get it a little more detail.

 

Not all images look that great at a smaller size though. If it's a picture that's huge (as far as file size) there's alot more trying to compress than a smaller one.

 

Hope this has helped a little, and have a good 'un!

[natimage]

Hi,

 

I do a lot of work in Photoshop, any you can do what you are talking about pretty easily in a program like that, provided you start with an image that is not too terribly large. I can resize down from a 750 pixel (width) image to 245 and still have decent presentation. All the images in my gallery on my site were reduced exactly like that!

 

I also do not use the sharpen tool very often. Oddly enough, the unsharp tool works wonderful at giving you a nice pic for the web...especially when you are reducing the image size.

 

If you don't have access to photoshop (or the arm and a leg that it takes to buy it...), there are some less feature packed imaging programs out there that should afford enough features for what you want.

 

Tracy