When you create a digital scrapbook layout, the final product is not suitable for emailing. The files are very large and need to be resized for emailing and uploading to blogs and digital scrapbook galleries. The size allowed for uploading to different galleries varies with each site, some require layouts to be resized at 500x500 pixels with a size of 100kb, some allow larger files sizes such as 800x800 pixel at 120kb, check the gallery you wish to upload to for guidelines.

In this tutorial I have used a measurement of 700px, but you may need to adjust this to a different size. Also note this tutorial was written using a photograph, but the same principal applies to scrapbook layouts. You should be aware if you are emailing these to family or friends they will not be printable, this adjustment makes them screen resolution only.

There are several ways to do this and therefore no way is 'the right way'. If you know how to do this, and it is different to how I do it, that is fine, there a many different ways to do many different things in Photoshop.

1. After opening your photo or layout go to File>Save For Web (see right).

2. This will open up a new window (see below). On the top left, you will have several tab options. Select the “2-Up” Option. This just gives you a comparison of the full resolution and the lower resolution picture/layout, so you can see any degradation from the changes you are making. The settings I give you will prevent any visible degradation of your image on screen. However the low resolution versions will not be clear enough to print at a reasonable size.

3. On the right hand side of the window (see right) click on the “Image Size” tab, then go to “New Size” depending on whether you are working with a Portrait or Landscape, make the largest figure (i.e. in portrait, that would be the height and in landscape that would be the width) around 700 pixels. Don’t worry about the smaller figure, it will automatically change (if the smaller figure doesn’t change make sure that “constrain proportions” is ticked). Then click on apply. You will see both images change size (smaller). The version of the photo on the right of the window is the one being adjusted.

At the bottom of the window (see above) it shows the size of the image. Keep an eye on the amount here.

4. Go to the “Quality” slider (see above) and adjust the slider up or down to get the figure at the bottom to about 100kb. This is a good size for either uploading to web pages or emailing.

If you're happy with how the picture looks, click save and save to your preferred folder. I have created a folder in "My Pictures", simply called “For Web”, it makes it easy to find all your low resolution pictures in one spot.