Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:07 am Post subject: photo printing
Hi there. I am loading images from a digital SLR Camera, into photoshop. They are massive images, high resolution, but when I load them in, they are opened at 72ppi. I have been shrinking the dimensions down for printing and would usually increase the resolution (for printing). No matter what I do though, I cannot recreate the clarity that I get when I use my cheap Epson photo software that goes with my printer. How can this be?? Any ideas?? I need to edit my pics
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject:
There are a lot of variables here, what colour space are you using in PS, that can alter the colours and saturation of the images. Then theres the resizing, are you just changing the size (with resample unchecked) or are you changing the size then changing the DPI? which way are you doing it. Wayne
Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: photo printing
sppixels wrote:
Hi there. I am loading images from a digital SLR Camera, into photoshop. They are massive images, high resolution, but when I load them in, they are opened at 72ppi. I have been shrinking the dimensions down for printing and would usually increase the resolution (for printing). No matter what I do though, I cannot recreate the clarity that I get when I use my cheap Epson photo software that goes with my printer. How can this be?? Any ideas?? I need to edit my pics
72 DPI is the standard for all digtial camera photos when you take them out of the camera and put them in photoshop or any other editing program. The reason why that is, is because a photo consits of three color channels RGB or (red, green and blue) and if you take the three channels and add them up, you would have a massive image. The reason why they are set at 72 dpi is for one thing to save space on your memory card. Think about it, if you would to have an 5 MP image at 300 DPI you would not have enough room for one photo on a 1 GB memory card. YOU WILL NEED TO CROP YOUR PHOTOS to 300 DPI to what ever size you want.
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