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Dec 7, 2017 20:55:27 #
I volunteered to take photos a few nights ago at my local orchid club. They will be inserting the images into a newsletter that they e-mail to members. Do I still export them with a 72ppi resolution or 300?
Dec 7, 2017 21:12:00 #
Dec 7, 2017 21:12:51 #
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Dec 7, 2017 21:12:53 #
dfrost01 wrote:
I volunteered to take photos a few nights ago at my local orchid club. They will be inserting the images into a newsletter that they e-mail to members. Do I still export them with a 72ppi resolution or 300?
Well, 300. But all that REALLY matters is the pixel dimensions (3000x2000 for example). They can assign the ppi figure they want. But you won't go wrong at 300. That 72ppi thing is, and always has been, bogus.
Dec 7, 2017 21:15:17 #
They don't get into the nitty-gritty of resolution. They just want me to give them images they can insert into their document. The images will be small so it appears that it probably doesn't matter.
Thank you for responding.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:23:52 #
dfrost01 wrote:
They don't get into the nitty-gritty of resolution. They just want me to give them images they can insert into their document. The images will be small so it appears that it probably doesn't matter.
Thank you for responding.
Thank you for responding.
Well in that case, something in the 240-300 will be fine.
Dec 7, 2017 23:24:34 #
dfrost01 wrote:
I volunteered to take photos a few nights ago at my local orchid club. They will be inserting the images into a newsletter that they e-mail to members. Do I still export them with a 72ppi resolution or 300?
If you are resizing (resampling) the images, then you need to ask what dimensions are needed, in pixels. For instance, if you upload a high resolution image to Facebook, they suggest that the longest dimension be not longer than 2048 pixels.
You can export an image at 24 ppi or 600ppi and it won't make any difference, btw.
Here are two images, sized to 2048 pixels on the longest side. The first one is 24ppi, the second is 600ppi. Can you see any difference? The file sizes of each are 450kb.
If the won't/can't tell you what the image dimensions need to be, then send them a full-sized, high quality jpeg, and let them work it out. If they know what they are doing they should be able to resize it to their needs.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:25:41 #
steve DeMott wrote:
72 ppi
It doesn't make a difference what you set the ppi to on export. It's only a metadata tag that is pretty much meaningless.
Dec 7, 2017 23:25:53 #
CaptainC wrote:
Well in that case, something in the 240-300 will be fine.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:27:02 #
CaptainC wrote:
Well, 300. But all that REALLY matters is the pixel dimensions (3000x2000 for example). They can assign the ppi figure they want. But you won't go wrong at 300. That 72ppi thing is, and always has been, bogus.
You are correct- all that matters is image resolution in pixels and ppi is meaningless.
Dec 8, 2017 10:02:35 #
Dec 8, 2017 11:24:58 #
dfrost01 wrote:
I volunteered to take photos a few nights ago at my local orchid club. They will be inserting the images into a newsletter that they e-mail to members. Do I still export them with a 72ppi resolution or 300?
The resolution header of the EXIF table in an image is one of the most misunderstood things in all of digital imaging.
You can avoid ignorant complaints from editors if you take the full image into Photoshop (or whatever other editor you have), and change the resolution to 300 WITHOUT re-sampling. If your original image is, for example, 6000x4000 pixels at 72 PPI, you would change that to 6000x4000 pixels at 300 PPI.
All that does is tell the editor's PAGE LAYOUT application to size the image so that each *digital image file pixel* is converted to a *physical image dot* that is 1/300" wide, instead of 1/72" wide. When they "flow" the image onto their page layout, it will come in much smaller, so as to be more manageable. And, it will retain all the original resolution you captured.
Dec 8, 2017 12:22:33 #
First, you need to ask the orchid club "print coordinator" what their requirements are. Ask what size they want to print images.
Then you can precrop the image to the size they want and export at 300 dpi.
Then you can precrop the image to the size they want and export at 300 dpi.
dfrost01 wrote:
I volunteered to take photos a few nights ago at my local orchid club. They will be inserting the images into a newsletter that they e-mail to members. Do I still export them with a 72ppi resolution or 300?
Dec 8, 2017 12:41:27 #
dfrost01 wrote:
I volunteered to take photos a few nights ago at my local orchid club. They will be inserting the images into a newsletter that they e-mail to members. Do I still export them with a 72ppi resolution or 300?
Hi I would send the club 72 resolution @ thumbnail size, making sure that you keep the hi res. in file at home. Will you be shooting RAW? Will they publish in color or B&W? Will the images be published as just thumbnails or larger? Sending low res./small size, protects your images from being reprinted by anyone. I always protect my images from being printed by others without my permission. This would be a perfect opportunity for you to sell a hi res enlargement. Yes, you are entitled to sell your work, and still accommodate your club for free with the low res. images.
Dec 8, 2017 13:32:19 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
Yes, go ahead and send them a 6000x4000 pixel file at 72 dpi, so they can see what the full size file will look like but won't be able to print it.
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