Living in today’s age, we all have used social media to share our minute-by-minute updates with family and friends. Not to mention, pictures by the ton. There’s not a single professional photographer out there who doesn’t have a client who wants to share their little prince / princess’ picture with the rest of the world via Facebook. To remedy that, there are, I’m sure, a bunch of actions around that allow you to “create a 960px wide image for facebook” – For free.
Have you wondered what goes into those actions? How you would actually do it without the use of actions? When you read the jargon 960 px, sure it sounds very geeky. You think eh why bother with doing those calculations and what not. On the contrary, its easy and very simple to understand. I for one, don’t use actions unless I know exactly what that action does and know how to create the look without the action. Once I have that mastered, I don’t mind (infact I love) using an action to do it. It quickens up my workflow t-r-e-m-e-n-d-o-u-s-l-y !
Here’s how I do it.
1. I open up the picture i need in my favorite software (photoshop, PSE, GIMP doesn’t matter which one as long as it has a capability to resize)
2. I then select the menu option Image/Image Size. For this example I am using Photoshop. Make sure you select the Image Size option under the Image menu and not the Canvas Size because they have very different effects.
3. This is the box that