ArcSoft Photo Impression 4 (for Windows: XP, Vista & 7)

    For our subject, were assuming that you have an image open and have performed any or all tasks to render your image into a state that you feel makes it better and that you have “Save As” so your not working on the original file. On the left menu bar, click “Edit” and on the bottom menu pallet click on “Crop/Resize”.

    By default, the crop box should be around the entire image. If you want to crop, now is the last chance to do so. Type in “768” (without the quotes) into either the “Width” or “Height” depending on whichever is the long dimension. Make sure that “Keep Aspect Ratio” is checked. Click on “Resize”.

    Next up is saving this file that has been resized. Click on the “Save” button on the left menu panel. On the bottom menu panel, select “To File” and then the “Save As” button/icon (so we will make an other copy of the file, this time with the crop). A pop-up dialog appears where you will need to navigate/browse to where you want to save the image file (don’t assume that it will be going where you got it from). Type in the new file name (see the particular competition’s rules that you are interested in for specific naming conventions) and make sure that in the “Save as type:” is “JPEG”.

    Now for a little hit-and-miss. There is a slider at the bottom of this dialog box for “Quality”. “100” (all the way to the right) is the best quality, largest file size, least amount of compression. “1” (all the way to the left) results in the smallest file size but at the cost of quality due to maximum compression. I would set it somewhere around 90 and then click “Save”.

    Another pop-up dialog appears asking you if you want to add this image to an album. That’s up to you and how you are using the program. Click “Yes” or “No” and your image is saved. Now you have to go find it, check the file size and if it is too big or too small, go back to the program and do the process over. If you do it a couple of times, you’ll get a feel for what quality setting will get you close for your images, but remember, to get as close to that sweet spot of 350 kb, every image will require a different quality/compression setting. 

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