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Image properties for social media?

My experience of social media is extremely limited, but I have occasionally been asked by a group to send them an image for use on their media. Sometimes as non-technical people only used to mobile ...
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Should I resize photos before or after image optimization?

I am a software dev who appreciates stunning imagry in sites I build, but am also very conscious of page size. My workflow has me adjusting image sizes to the maximum resolution they will be displayed ...
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Aren't all digital images ultimately just pixel values between 0 - 255?

I have a few incredibly basic (stupid?) questions about images; specifically, image formats and pixel values. Forgive me, I'm not a photographer. I'm just someone that works with images, and to me, ...
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What is a reasonable file format for film scanning?

I'm looking to use my CanoScan 8600F to digitally archive the photos I've shot on film. The issue I've stumbled on is deciding on a file format. Ideally I'd like something that is lossless but with ...
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How to reduce the file size of my photos (to under 15 MB)?

I don't have a "Pro" account on Flickr, just the free one, so my photo uploads are capped to 15 megabytes/file. After post-processing, my photos end up being too large to be uploaded to Flickr. I do ...
Nandhini Sandra Mogan's user avatar