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Help with image size before taking image to printer.
Greetings all:
I have an Olympus D-40 and a C-50. I use Photoshop 7.0. First of all, I've never taken a image straight from the camera to the photo shop to get prints. I've always worked on the image before hand in Photoshop. Sometimes I crop the image a little bit. Here is my question. Is there a setting or certain configuration I can do in photoshop that will show me what will be shown/printed if I get the image printed in various sizes (5X7, 4X6,8X10, for example)? I want to make sure that what I see on screen is what they will make prints of-that they will not be cropping the photo. Does this make sense? I want to make sure that I am not cropping off too much or that the photo shop might crop something out that I wanted in, just because my sizing/cropping was incorrect. I know many of you must know what to do here so I'm looking for your help. I thank you in advance. It's Mr. Rather B. Beachen to you |
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Help with image size before taking image to printer.
"Mr. Rather B. Beachen" wrote in message
... Greetings all: I have an Olympus D-40 and a C-50. I use Photoshop 7.0. First of all, I've never taken a image straight from the camera to the photo shop to get prints. I've always worked on the image before hand in Photoshop. Sometimes I crop the image a little bit. Here is my question. Is there a setting or certain configuration I can do in photoshop that will show me what will be shown/printed if I get the image printed in various sizes (5X7, 4X6,8X10, for example)? I'm still using the ancient PhotoShop 5.0. I click VIEW PRINT SIZE. This only shows me the image on my screen as it would be printed, not variations. I would downsize the original image (in my case 23" at 72dpi) to 10", increasing resolution accordingly, then check PRINT SIZE. (Viewed at 100%, there should be no change in the onscreen image size.) Then downsize to 7", again increasing resolution, and check that. Etc... dwight |
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Help with image size before taking image to printer.
Mr. Rather B. Beachen wrote:
Greetings all: I have an Olympus D-40 and a C-50. I use Photoshop 7.0. First of all, I've never taken a image straight from the camera to the photo shop to get prints. I've always worked on the image before hand in Photoshop. Sometimes I crop the image a little bit. Here is my question. Is there a setting or certain configuration I can do in photoshop that will show me what will be shown/printed if I get the image printed in various sizes (5X7, 4X6,8X10, for example)? I want to make sure that what I see on screen is what they will make prints of-that they will not be cropping the photo. Does this make sense? I want to make sure that I am not cropping off too much or that the photo shop might crop something out that I wanted in, just because my sizing/cropping was incorrect. I know many of you must know what to do here so I'm looking for your help. I thank you in advance. It's Mr. Rather B. Beachen to you I suggest you crop your image to the exact ratio that will be printed. Note: if you are having an 8x10 printed with a ¼" border your final print will not be a 0.8:1.0 ratio but rather a 0.789:1.0 ratio You may want to do any dodging and burning and contrast adjustments, but color and brightness will generally be done by the lab and unless your equipment is well calibrated to the same standard they use, you can't adjust to their equipment. -- Joseph E. Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math |
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Help with image size before taking image to printer.
Dear Mr. Rather B. Beachen to you and the world
I believe that some print machine now cater for the 4:3 ratio of digital images thus avoiding the loss of print area. In my experience delegating the printable area is to be avoided = find a suitable 8x6 digiprinter near you das B "Mr. Rather B. Beachen" wrote in message ... Greetings all: I have an Olympus D-40 and a C-50. I use Photoshop 7.0. First of all, I've never taken a image straight from the camera to the photo shop to get prints. I've always worked on the image before hand in Photoshop. Sometimes I crop the image a little bit. Here is my question. Is there a setting or certain configuration I can do in photoshop that will show me what will be shown/printed if I get the image printed in various sizes (5X7, 4X6,8X10, for example)? I want to make sure that what I see on screen is what they will make prints of-that they will not be cropping the photo. Does this make sense? I want to make sure that I am not cropping off too much or that the photo shop might crop something out that I wanted in, just because my sizing/cropping was incorrect. I know many of you must know what to do here so I'm looking for your help. I thank you in advance. It's Mr. Rather B. Beachen to you |
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Help with image size before taking image to printer.
While there are ways to display it 'actual size', as long as print size
is smaller than your monitor screen, this will not give you the same quality as a paper print. First of all, modern monitors seem to have more dynamic range than paper prints. So this makes a monitor display look better than a print as far as tonal range. Offsetting this, however, is that monitors do not have the resolution of a medium size or large size print. You can print up to about 300 pixels per inch with a good printer. On an 8 x 10 print, this corresponds to a 3000 x 2400 pixel print. Few monitors can give you this kind of resolution. even when you print at 200 ppi, this is a 2000 x 1600 pixel print. Unless you have a VERY good, very large monitor, this is more than your monitor will likely show. Today's consumer monitors range from about 1200 to 1600 pixels wide. "Mr. Rather B. Beachen" wrote: Greetings all: I have an Olympus D-40 and a C-50. I use Photoshop 7.0. First of all, I've never taken a image straight from the camera to the photo shop to get prints. I've always worked on the image before hand in Photoshop. Sometimes I crop the image a little bit. Here is my question. Is there a setting or certain configuration I can do in photoshop that will show me what will be shown/printed if I get the image printed in various sizes (5X7, 4X6,8X10, for example)? I want to make sure that what I see on screen is what they will make prints of-that they will not be cropping the photo. Does this make sense? I want to make sure that I am not cropping off too much or that the photo shop might crop something out that I wanted in, just because my sizing/cropping was incorrect. I know many of you must know what to do here so I'm looking for your help. I thank you in advance. It's Mr. Rather B. Beachen to you -- Don Stauffer in Minnesota webpage- http://www.usfamily.net/web/stauffer |
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