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Article By Mike Singh. A minimally adequate semi-tutorial on one way to resize your image files before “sharing” them (sending by email, viewing on a website, etc.) with others.

Here’s my tip: For online viewing, I don’t even bother with all that “resolution” mumbo-jumbo. I just deal with pixel dimensions.

It’s very simple: The typical computer monitor is 1,024×768 pixels (or even 800×600). If any of my original image’s horizontal or vertical pixel counts is larger than any of those numbers, then it ain’t gonna fit, Jack. Shrink it. Although on the large side, images that are 400-500 pixels wide should suffice for Web use (more often than not, I shrink them even smaller).

Notice that not once did I mention ppi, dpi, lpi, resolution, blah blah blah in that simple procedure.

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