Hey I just got a Print Production job and I'm not familiar with everything printed since I've been working with web related material. Now when you have a picture that is bigger than it's finally going to be printed how do you handle something like that? . I mean the photo is pretty big let's say 1200 x 1200 pixels and it's going to be printed @ half that size when you bring it into photoshop do you change its resolution (300-dpi) ? what is the next step to calculate the right resolution for the image being printed at a smaller size.
Thank you to who ever answers this...
Thank you to who ever answers this...
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Re: RESOLUTION in PHOTOSHOP !
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 2:02 PMI usually wait on changing the resolution until I have the exact size I need it nailed down fairly well. Keep a full resolution copy of course, it's a given that the client will change the size if you don't. All the printers I deal with use 300 dpi as the standard. I change the resolution to 300 dpi first without resampling, so the pixel count doesn't change. Then I size the photo down to the physical size I want with resampling turned on. -
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Re: RESOLUTION in PHOTOSHOP !
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 2:19 PMditto... with one caveat that you need to know what your final printing line screen or "lines per inch" (lpi) is going to be.
the basic rule-of-thumb is that the image resolution should be 2-2.5 times the final screen resolution at 100%, so since most material is printed at 150lpi, most printers ask for images to be 300ppi.
so, if your image is 1200ppi at 4x4inches and it's being used at that same physical size, then you can reduce the image resolution to 300ppi at 4x4 since all that extra data is doing nothing but taxing the image setter.
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Re: RESOLUTION in PHOTOSHOP !
Tue, October 3, 2006 - 3:31 PMThank you (hdw) & (Ray) both for your imput
it's very helpful ! . . .
