Photos for Newspaper Publication: My brother has submitted photos to a local newspaper that are to be used along with an article he has written. He uses a Canon (?) and has saved them...

Silversailor Loc: Columbus, Indiana

My brother has submitted photos to a local newspaper that are to be used along with an article he has written. He uses a Canon (?) and has saved them in jpeg. The editor has informed him that the photos are too large for their software to handle. My brother assumes he is talking about either dpi or number of pixels.
What advice should I give him in preparing his photos for publication in a newspaper? Should he be saving the photo in TIFF or PNG? Thank you

LMurray Loc: North Orange County, CA

Silversailor wrote:

My brother has submitted photos to a local newspaper that are to be used along with an article he has written. He uses a Canon (?) and has saved them in jpeg. The editor has informed him that the photos are too large for their software to handle. My brother assumes he is talking about either dpi or number of pixels.
What advice should I give him in preparing his photos for publication in a newspaper? Should he be saving the photo in TIFF or PNG? Thank you

Probably the files are too large.

twowindsbear

First off, find out what the paper requires!

Then, when he saves the pix, save them to that spec. Either reduce the size, or the quality, or some combination. Should be a fairly straight forward procedure.

Good luck

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

If he was able to email the files to them, the newspaper should have been able to handle upon receipt. Without worrying about this issue, have your brother adjust the image resolution to 2048-pixels as discussed in this post: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-512745-1.html (scroll to the bottom for screen prints for a few examples from various softwares).

anotherview Loc: California

He should ask the editor for the specifics of the photographs the newspaper requires for publication.

Silversailor wrote:

My brother has submitted photos to a local newspaper that are to be used along with an article he has written. He uses a Canon (?) and has saved them in jpeg. The editor has informed him that the photos are too large for their software to handle. My brother assumes he is talking about either dpi or number of pixels.
What advice should I give him in preparing his photos for publication in a newspaper? Should he be saving the photo in TIFF or PNG? Thank you

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Pretty amazing that the newspaper lacks the ability to resize photos. Also that the editor would just say they are too large without specifying what size they should be.

editorsteve

I edit a magazine and my wife regularly photographs for a major daily paper. Provide max quality jpg and 2000 pixels on long side. That allows photos to be sized up to 10" for publication. If they want larger they can ask.

khorinek

Silversailor wrote:

My brother has submitted photos to a local newspaper that are to be used along with an article he has written. He uses a Canon (?) and has saved them in jpeg. The editor has informed him that the photos are too large for their software to handle. My brother assumes he is talking about either dpi or number of pixels.
What advice should I give him in preparing his photos for publication in a newspaper? Should he be saving the photo in TIFF or PNG? Thank you

We use 300 dpi for publication with an image size of 1280 x 800. Size depends on space availability.

BebuLamar

JohnSwanda wrote:

Pretty amazing that the newspaper lacks the ability to resize photos. Also that the editor would just say they are too large without specifying what size they should be.

I see a lot of question about this and I am surprised that people who do publishing either paper or web can't handle large images. The photographers should submit the largest size they have and then the editor should be able to resize to whatever they need.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Silversailor wrote:

My brother has submitted photos to a local newspaper that are to be used along with an article he has written. He uses a Canon (?) and has saved them in jpeg. The editor has informed him that the photos are too large for their software to handle. My brother assumes he is talking about either dpi or number of pixels.
What advice should I give him in preparing his photos for publication in a newspaper? Should he be saving the photo in TIFF or PNG? Thank you

Your jpeg. is too large. There are tools you can make them smaller with, photoshop is very easy, and also JPG file size reduce software, this one is free to download and use.

khorinek

BebuLamar wrote:

I see a lot of question about this and I am surprised that people who do publishing either paper or web can't handle large images. The photographers should submit the largest size they have and then the editor should be able to resize to whatever they need.

Most newspapers and other publications have the ability to resize images. It's a time thing. The Editor is managing several reporter's stories and photographer's photos for a 7pm deadline. The last thing they need is a photo that needs edited at deadline.

etaoin Loc: Wichita, KS

Here's a reliable rule-of-thumb for determining appropriate size for a photo submitted for newspaper reproduction. Find out what line-screen they use for print production (i.e. 85-line, 100-line.) Double that value to get the maximum useful DPI for your JPG file submission. Any value higher than that, is wasted bulk. (I worked for a large daily newspaper for 45 years in production/technology departments and had to do lots of "education" of photographers, art departments, outside agencies, etc., as to what was needed for good newspaper reproduction. It's a lot different than requirements for a "slick" magazine.)

Bill_de Loc: US

JohnSwanda wrote:

Pretty amazing that the newspaper lacks the ability to resize photos. Also that the editor would just say they are too large without specifying what size they should be.

We don't really know what the editor said.

Brother should be asking editor for specifics.

Or, just for fun we could have a 20 page guessing game.

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cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

Here's link to understand Newspaper printing needs:

https://www.newspaperclub.com/create/design-guides/image-resolution

Good Luck!

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

cambriaman wrote:

Here's link to understand Newspaper printing needs:

https://www.newspaperclub.com/create/design-guides/image-resolution

Good Luck!

This is the type of un-dated "facts from the internet" nonsense that prevents people from understanding what pixel resolution means in 2019 ....