How do I optimise photos in Picasa? (please)

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  miladysboudoir · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 4:34 pm

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  I have downloaded Picasa, now how do I optimise my photos in it? The advice is to do this but now I have it I don’t know where to start. Please could someone give me step-by-step instructions? Here is where we are told to do this – but then we are left high and dry!

  Optimize Your Images

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 7:29 pm

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  The image editing software is linked to in that support doc http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/#image-editing-software

  We do not provide Picassa support at WordPress.com and Picassa does not provide WordPress.com software support. I suggest you post to Picassa help or support and ask there for help. https://support.google.com/picasa/?hl=en

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  miladysboudoir · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 9:22 pm

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  Thank you so very much again for your time and response. We discussed this before when I had problems. The trouble is I don’t know what I am supposed to optimise my photos to. I can see that I will have to ‘play around’ with it. May I just ask one more? Which of these should I do in order to cut the size (pixels) of my blog photos?
  “Automatic: Preserves the original image quality
  Normal: Balances quality and size
  Maximum: Preserves fine detail for large file sizes
  Minimum: Yields some quality loss for small file sizes
  Custom: Lets you to select your own value”
  Thanks, Barbara

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 9:25 pm

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  Use Custom and set it for 72dpi.

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  miladysboudoir · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 9:48 pm

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  Thank you, raincoaster. Fingers crossed!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 9:53 pm

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  Thanks from me too. :)

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 11:44 pm

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  @RC & @TT

  I have seen the 72 dpi many times

  I have usually just scaled the pictures to the pixel count i.e. maybe 500 wide and have not adjusted the dpi but just left it and let Gimp figure it out – maybe crop a picture to 1250 wide then scale to 500 wide – then use some compression to save on the file size and help load time

  Have I been skipping doing something important for picture quality?

  At what point should the 72 dpi be picked?

  I also sharpen pictures that have been scaled down using the Gimp Unsharpen function (like sharpen but seems to work a bit better and has a ton of settings that I don’t mess with) and that seems to make the picture “jump” a bit more and most of the time also helps the color

  thanks

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  miladysboudoir · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 8:02 pm

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  Thank you for this help. I didn’t see anything dpi (I don’t know what it stands for) so I reduced the pixels to 640 and it’s a much nicer size and still clear. It’s the main street one which is different size from the others.

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