I have taken a bunch of photos for a band for their press kit. In order for them to use the photos they have to be 300 DPI. I have photo impact XL and I went to the "Format", "Resolution", "User-Defined" and set it at 300. Then I went to "Format", "Image Size" and the "Resolution" says 300 Pixels/Inch. I burned all the photos to CD's and the person who got them says that the DPI is 72. Can someone please help me ASAP. There is a deadline that is closing in and I'm afraid that all my hard work will be trashed.
I don't know what kind of software they are using but my husband thinks it may be a problem on their end.
PLEASE HELP THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Reign ladyrot@earthlink.net
NEED HELP ASAP RE: MAKING PHOTOS 300 DPI
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keenart
The question is do you still have a copy of the files you burned to CD and then sent to your friend?
The other question is what file extension did you use? If you used *jpg or one of the other compression schemes it may have defaulted to 72 dpi when you saved the files.
You can use the Browse Manager on the XL Desktop to navigate to one of the files, and right click on the file and find the file information to determine whether the file was saved at 300 dpi or another resolution.
If your friend has 72 dpi resolution files and you do not have any copies, or the copies you have are at 72 dpi and you cannot shoot another session, you are SOL.
One possibility does exist, you could have the 72 dpi images scanned or photographed commercially to a higher resolution, but would be very expensive.
The other question is what file extension did you use? If you used *jpg or one of the other compression schemes it may have defaulted to 72 dpi when you saved the files.
You can use the Browse Manager on the XL Desktop to navigate to one of the files, and right click on the file and find the file information to determine whether the file was saved at 300 dpi or another resolution.
If your friend has 72 dpi resolution files and you do not have any copies, or the copies you have are at 72 dpi and you cannot shoot another session, you are SOL.
One possibility does exist, you could have the 72 dpi images scanned or photographed commercially to a higher resolution, but would be very expensive.
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GeorgeBW
Hello Reign,
Use this link to browse the Understanding Resolution Tutorial
http://www.andvideo.co.uk/tutorials.html..
It explains the relationship between physical size and the number of pixels in an image... Uses Photo Impact as the platform for example and method, so you should be able to relate to it quite easily.. being a user.
Hope this helps
Good Luck
George
Use this link to browse the Understanding Resolution Tutorial
http://www.andvideo.co.uk/tutorials.html..
It explains the relationship between physical size and the number of pixels in an image... Uses Photo Impact as the platform for example and method, so you should be able to relate to it quite easily.. being a user.
Hope this helps
Good Luck
George
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keenart
Reign
It just occured to me over a good cup of tea, you said, "Photos" does that mean positives, or did you use a Digital Camera?
If you used the Digital Camera, unless you used the RAW feature and set to a rresolution of 300 dpi, if your camera is capable of that, then your camera will typically shoot a *jpg at 72 DPI as large as 32 by 40 inches for an 8 mega-pixel.
Which means to convert a 72 dpi image to a 300 dpi image you must reduce the size inproportion when you increase the resolution. Again, that means if you kept the same size of image and tried to save at 300 dpi XL will default to 72 dpi.
I like the Tutorial Idea. But, quickly if your camera took an image 32 inches by 40 inches at 72 dpi which would convert to a 300 dpi image with a size of roughly 7.5 inches by 9.5 inches.
It just occured to me over a good cup of tea, you said, "Photos" does that mean positives, or did you use a Digital Camera?
If you used the Digital Camera, unless you used the RAW feature and set to a rresolution of 300 dpi, if your camera is capable of that, then your camera will typically shoot a *jpg at 72 DPI as large as 32 by 40 inches for an 8 mega-pixel.
Which means to convert a 72 dpi image to a 300 dpi image you must reduce the size inproportion when you increase the resolution. Again, that means if you kept the same size of image and tried to save at 300 dpi XL will default to 72 dpi.
I like the Tutorial Idea. But, quickly if your camera took an image 32 inches by 40 inches at 72 dpi which would convert to a 300 dpi image with a size of roughly 7.5 inches by 9.5 inches.
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heinz-oz
It's a common mistake to confuse pixel per inch (ppi) with dot per inch (dpi).
No digital camera takes images in any resolution, it only takes so many pixels by so many pixels. These images are usually displayed on a monitor at a resolution of 72 ppi. Anything higher is not going to improve clarity, although, on some LCD/TFT monitors, the default resolution may be 96 ppi.
Dpi, dot per inch, only comes into the equation when printing. The (inkjet/bubble jet) printer will use as many as 4 dots of colour to display one pixel. An image, resized in PI or any other image editor, is still only X-pixels by Y-pixels in size when saved to any format, jpeg, tiff, bmp, etc. The print resolution is set at the time of printing and determines how big the given image will print. The same image, printed at 600dpi will only be a quarter of the physical print size of the same image printed at 300dpi.
No digital camera takes images in any resolution, it only takes so many pixels by so many pixels. These images are usually displayed on a monitor at a resolution of 72 ppi. Anything higher is not going to improve clarity, although, on some LCD/TFT monitors, the default resolution may be 96 ppi.
Dpi, dot per inch, only comes into the equation when printing. The (inkjet/bubble jet) printer will use as many as 4 dots of colour to display one pixel. An image, resized in PI or any other image editor, is still only X-pixels by Y-pixels in size when saved to any format, jpeg, tiff, bmp, etc. The print resolution is set at the time of printing and determines how big the given image will print. The same image, printed at 600dpi will only be a quarter of the physical print size of the same image printed at 300dpi.
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Reign
Thank you all so much...
for your help. I went to www.tucows.com and downloaded XnView and it worked. I was able to set the DPI and rush over the CD of photos just in the nick of time.
Thank you again for all the info.
Reign
Thank you again for all the info.
Reign