Quick Resizing How-To

1) Open a scanned image in Photoshop.

2) Go to File- Save As, and save your image as 'Cleanup.psd' or something like that. I'd like you to have the original scan, your working PSD file (make sure to select PSD from the drop-down file type menu in the save dialogue.

3) If necessary, go to Image-Image Rotation and rotate the image 90 degrees, depending on the orientation of your scan.

4) Draw a line with the ruler tool, on a line in the image you'd like to be horizontal.

5) Go up to the Image menu, then down to Image Rotation, then down to Arbitrary in the Rotate menu. This will open a small dialogue box, showing the number of degrees Photoshop needs to rotate the image in order to make your line horizontal. Click OK. This should rotate the image to make your line horizontal.

6)Go to the Crop tool in the tool menu on the left side. It looks like a black square with the lines overlapping at the corners.

7) Set the long dimension of the crop tool to 10”, and the resolution to 300dpi.

8) Drag the crop tool over your image to crop out any white areas on the sides left over from rotating the image.

9) Double-click the cropped area to make Photoshop crop the image.

10) Save your cleaned and rotated Photoshop file.

9) Now that you've saved the PSD, save a JPEG for web. With your cleaned-up PSD file open, go up to the Image menu, and select Image Size. First, make sure Resample Image is unchecked in the dialogue. Change the inch dimensions of your image to 5” on the long dimension. Hit OK.

10) Go back to Image-Image Size. This time, check the Resample box, and then change the resolution to 72 dpi. Hit OK. This will shrink your image down to web resolution.

11) Now, go to File- Save As. Name your file, and then make sure to select JPEG from the drop-down file type menu. Hit OK. A JPEG dialogue box will appear. Set the quality to 9 or 10. Hit OK. Now you have a web-resolution file ready to email to me. Do this for each of your three images. Attach all three JPEGS to an email and send to me by Wednesday the ^6th at 5pm. Thanks.