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Photoshop help.
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I'm doing a favor for a friend of the family and touching up some grad pics of her daughter and she wants them 8.5" x 11" when they're done.  My printer isn't the greatest so I may just give her the JPEGS but my problem is getting the picture sized right.  If I start a new file and specify it to 8.5" x 11" the picture is HUGE.  I have to look at it around 30% or lower to fit in on the screen.  Will the actual image print out the right size?  It just doesn't seem like 8.5" x 11" on screen, it looks more like 2 feet x 3 feet.  I've never had to do this with real photos before, at least not in the professional sense.  It's always been custom projects where exact size isn't an issue.

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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: Newbie]
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The dpi is key there...

If it's 8x10 at 96 dpi, the image will be 768 x 960 and it will print like shit.

If it's 8x10 at 300 dpi, the image will be 2400 x 3000 and it will be photo quality.

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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: Newbie]
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its only supposed to be 612 X 792 pixels for a normal paper


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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: Newbie]
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It will...You may want to outline the page with like a grey color...Just a very small line so that you can make sure your printer will print it correctly.

My old printer I had trouble, and I had to either downsize it or make it larger to fit the paper exactly. I can't really remember.


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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: Coaster]
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Coaster said:
its only supposed to be 612 X 792 pixels for a normal paper


That's lower than screen resolution... it will look decent on webpages, and when displayed on a monitor...

If you print that, it will be pixelated like a mother fucker.

72/96 dpi = screen
300 dpi = print

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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: MHbound]
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That's a good idea.  I didn't want to waste ink to find out myself. :lol:  I'm basically blowing up wallet sized shots so I told her it's probably not going to be anything like that the school would hand her.

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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: Newbie]
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NewbieShroomie said:
I'm basically blowing up wallet sized shots


They will look very blurry... 5x7's upsample decently to 8x10, but anything smaller, especially wallets, will look crappy blown up to portrait size.

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Re: Photoshop help. [Re: RoosterCogburn]
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Yea, blowing up some shots is difficult to make look decent. Hm, I'm not too good with resolutions etc so I am of no more use.

I do know there are a few programs that works decent. The best being alienware image enlarger...Something like that, but basically all it does it enlarge the picture by 110% each time. So, by enlarging it 110% a bunch of times your picture will look BETTER, but it's still going to suck.

If you do a high resolution scan, and send it to me I have a program that does an OKAY job at it, but like I said it's not going to be perfect.

You just can't add information that isn't there when enlarging.


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