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digital image resizing & file naming

image size - how to resize an image

• from TakeGreatPictures.com
  • Sizing an image - Simple Solutions to a Confusing Problem
• from Adobe
  • changing image size in Photoshop CS2
  • changing image size in Photoshop CS

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image filename - web guidelines

• Use lower case letters without spaces for filenames
• from Abeleto - Some guidelines for creating and storing web images excerpt:

Web servers tend to be case sensitive, although your image file upload tools and web browsers are not. This means that a web server makes a distinction between 'image.jpeg', 'Image.jpeg', 'IMAGE.jpeg', et cetera....

A file name generally consists of the following three parts:

1. base name
2. full stop
3. extension

In the first example given before, 'image' is the base name, '.' the full stop, and 'jpeg' the extension. The extension denotes the type of image file. Generally, any given image file format has a limited number of possible extensions.

Follow these recommendations to avoid problems:

• start the base name with a lower case letter
• use lower case letters, digits, hyphens (-) and underscores (_) for the rest of the base name
• only use lower case letters for the extension

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