Resizing large images

This is probably a basic one for most people, but I'm pretty clueless... I've got a fairly large image (3000px) that I need to scale down to 500-ish px. How do I best go about doing this without getting that awful 'halo' effect? I've tried gradually scaling down without much success.

there are several options. if you want to save the image to be put on the web, you can go to File>save for web> and in the bottom corner manually enter the size. and it will keep the proportions that you want.
see below:
another way is to go to image>image size
try these as well:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basics-properly-resizing-image-files-photoshop/
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/image-resizing/
-janelle

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