Step 4. Click on “Image” on the top tool bar, come down to “Image Size” and click on it. A box will open showing your existing size image, and as I stated earlier, I now change the LARGEST side to 700 pixels for display on the web page, but of course you may make this any size that you wish. Note as you change this number the shorter side will automatically change to maintain the original aspect of your image. Click “OK”. ( If you are intending to print a hard copy of your image, you should NOT change the size of your image as your printer, (or the lab’s printer if you take it somewhere to be printed), will make a far higher resolution hard copy from an image with more data available.)

The final step is to go to “Filter” on the top tool bar, go down to “Sharpen”, and from the options that pop up choose “Unsharp Mask”. This too is a matter of individual preference and your camera on how much or how little you want an image sharpened. A general rule of thumb is that an image of a person should be less sharp than an image of a thing or structure. In this case, … for the web and based on my camera settings, I sharpened it to “Amount” 100, (choices are from 1 to 500), used “Radius” 1.0 Pixels (choices are 0.1 to 250.0), and threshold 0. (Choices are 0 to 255.) Go back and forth between this image and the previous to see how much nicer Brandi's eyes and body look after the USM (Unsharp Mask) was applied.

I then saved the image under a new file name as to preserve the original photograph as it came out of the camera in case I want to do a different effect at a later time. (NOTE! It is ALWAYS a wise idea to keep your original image ORIGINAL so that you can always go back to it as it came out of the camera!)

My final image for the web is above. Not bad huh? And it only took 37 seconds from beginning to end.