Photo of myself: Hello club members: I hope you can explain this simply. I will be working for a company that needs a photo of myself. The instructions say. 300 dpi 350 pixels wide x...

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Hello club members: I hope you can explain this simply. I will be working for a company that needs a photo of myself. The instructions say.
300 dpi
350 pixels wide x 450 pixels high

Thanks for any information.

Singing Swan

And what do you need to have explained about this?? Rather self explanatory instructions there.

hightek Loc: west virginia

Take a photograph of yourself, crop it out to your liking then save it and re-open it in a editor and re-size it to 350 X450 save and submit.

Jules Karney wrote:

Hello club members: I hope you can explain this simply. I will be working for a company that needs a photo of myself. The instructions say.
300 dpi
350 pixels wide x 450 pixels high

Thanks for any information.

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

hightek wrote:

Take a photograph of yourself, crop it out to your liking then save it and re-open it in a editor and re-size it to 350 X450 save and submit.

Thank you for the information. I appreciate it.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Do you have photoshop? If not send me the pic and I can crop it to their specs.

Jules Karney wrote:

Hello club members: I hope you can explain this simply. I will be working for a company that needs a photo of myself. The instructions say.
300 dpi
350 pixels wide x 450 pixels high

Thanks for any information.

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

PixelStan77 wrote:

Do you have photoshop? If not send me the pic and I can crop it to their specs.

I don't have Photoshop but I am going to download the free edition. Is the free edition good enough for beginners for editing?

BebuLamar

It means the photo would have 350x450 pixels and measure 1 1/8" x 1 1/2" or so.

Dziadzi Loc: Wilkes-Barre, PA

Singing Swan wrote:

And what do you need to have explained about this?? Rather self explanatory instructions there.

Sometimes we assume too much.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Jules Karney wrote:

I don't have Photoshop but I am going to download the free edition. Is the free edition good enough for beginners for editing?

Irfanview is free forever, and it is very easy to use. With the image on the screen, press Ctrl-R and resize it. Just enter the dimensions you want and hit Enter.

http://www.irfanview.com/

A.J.R. Loc: Devon, UK

Singing Swan wrote:

And what do you need to have explained about this?? Rather self explanatory instructions there.

Im sorry singing swan but not everyone is familiar with procedures or terms used to carry out tasks with photo software. Although this might seem a simple procedure to most of us, it is sites like this that hopefully accommodates all levels of experience, and members can give helpful answers to questions from basic to advanced.

AzShooter1 Loc: Surprise, Az.

The free version of Photoshop will do for years of enjoyment, when you are ready get one of the Element versions.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Jules Karney wrote:

I don't have Photoshop but I am going to download the free edition. Is the free edition good enough for beginners for editing?

The free trial version of PS CC would do the job... but are you ready to spend 6 hours downloading and installing it, then take a year's worth of college level classes to learn to use it? PS CC would be MASSIVE OVERKILL for your purposes. It is the single largest and most complex image editing software in existence.

If you already have an original photo, there are many far simpler and easier to use ways to accomplish the same results.

A free trial version of Photoshop Elements, for example.

Or, FastStone Photo Resizer is another possibility and is free.

I haven't personally used Infraview, but it appears to be fully capable of doing the same.

In fact, this is a fairly simple procedure that almost any image editing software will be able to do without much problem.

Whatever you use, you just need to set up a crop/size as 350x450 and 300 ppi. That's essentially a "thumbnail" size image. I imagine they will need it saved as a JPG (or JPEG), too... as that's the most universally used file type.

lgambon

Apparently the questioner is not as worldly and knowledgable as yourself. Why mock the poor soul and just answer the freaking question? :thumbdown:

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

amfoto1 wrote:

The free trial version of PS CC would do the job..... (show quote)

Which Photoshop Element? There seems to be a few.
Thank you.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Jules Karney wrote:

Hello club members: I hope you can explain this simply. I will be working for a company that needs a photo of myself. The instructions say.
300 dpi
350 pixels wide x 450 pixels high

Thanks for any information.

300 DPI refers to the printer resolution, it means how many ink dots per inch the printer is squirting onto the paper.

350 x 450 pixels is an image size dimension. It's not exactly the same as DPI because I could for example, print out a 4000 x 5000 pixel image at a size of 8" x 10" and 300 DPI printer resolution.

I think what the company is asking for is a high quality small sized photo. A photo of about 1 and 1/8" by 1 and 1/2" printed at 300 DPI.

Maybe the easiest thing would be to go to a location that shoots passport photos and have them take the pic and print it for you.