Suitable for 8"X10"?

"Jay Peterman" wrote in message

I want to have a few 8X10 photos printed at a local vendor.
In Photoshop CS it shows the image sizes to be
35.556W X 23.778H X 72 ppi.

Reset the ppi to 240 (uncheck resample by the way). Then see what the size is.
I could do the math, but it is your photo.
Jim

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:48:49 GMT, "Jim" wrote:

"Jay Peterman" wrote in message

I want to have a few 8X10 photos printed at a local vendor.
In Photoshop CS it shows the image sizes to be
35.556W X 23.778H X 72 ppi.

Reset the ppi to 240 (uncheck resample by the way). Then see what the size is.
I could do the math, but it is your photo.
Jim

It comes out to almost 8X10. It doesn’t look real bad either. Maybe I’ll have a couple different pictures turned into an 8X10 just to see what they will look like.
Thanks Jim

Jay Peterman wrote:

I want to have a few 8X10 photos printed at a local vendor.
In Photoshop CS it shows the image sizes to be
35.556W X 23.778H X 72 ppi.

What are those dimensions? Inches? If so…

Would these print okay to an 8X10?

Yes.

I can take them in higher resolution (TIFF?).

Yes, you should resize to 300 ppi, no resample. Or let the vendor do it.

Also could I use Genuine Fractals, save them to a CD and take them to the vendor?

Why not? Don’t see what you need the Genuine Fractals for though.

Thank you.

—
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From the other posts it seems that you have enough resolution for 8×10 and you are correct that the best way to be sure of your work and the work of the printer is to run a test image through them. For an image of this size you don’t need Genuine Fractals….it does great at poster sized prints. One benefit of GF is that the file it creates is smaller than the resulting file…so if you can email it to the printer that is a consideration….if you check before hand and make sure the printer accepts GF files.

One last thing….taking a TIFF will not give you more resolution. Some who must have better eyes than mine claim that the TIFFs are sharper…but with the best quality setting for the JPGs you don’t get noticeable artifacts.

"Jay Peterman" wrote in message

I want to have a few 8X10 photos printed at a local vendor.
In Photoshop CS it shows the image sizes to be
35.556W X 23.778H X 72 ppi.

Would these print okay to an 8X10?

I can take them in higher resolution (TIFF?).

Also could I use Genuine Fractals, save them to a CD and take them to the vendor?

Thank you.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:54:31 GMT, edjh wrote:

Jay Peterman wrote:

I want to have a few 8X10 photos printed at a local vendor.
In Photoshop CS it shows the image sizes to be
35.556W X 23.778H X 72 ppi.

What are those dimensions? Inches? If so…

Yes they are in inches.

Would these print okay to an 8X10?

Yes.

I can take them in higher resolution (TIFF?).

Yes, you should resize to 300 ppi, no resample. Or let the vendor do it.

I suppose that I can change to 300 ppi in PS.

Also could I use Genuine Fractals, save them to a CD and take them to the vendor?

Why not? Don’t see what you need the Genuine Fractals for though.

I’ll scrap that idea.

Thanks again, I don’t have my printer set up and I don’t have pictures printed very often so I can’t justify the $30 cartridge costs. It’s hard to believe that cartridges remain around that price. Sometimes I go to a local "internet cafe" and printout stuff but color printing even on their big machine takes so damn long.

Thank you.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:05:00 GMT, "Gene Palmiter" wrote:

From the other posts it seems that you have enough resolution for 8×10 and you are correct that the best way to be sure of your work and the work of the printer is to run a test image through them. For an image of this size you don’t need Genuine Fractals….it does great at poster sized prints. One benefit of GF is that the file it creates is smaller than the resulting file…so if you can email it to the printer that is a consideration….if you check before hand and make sure the printer accepts GF files.
One last thing….taking a TIFF will not give you more resolution. Some who must have better eyes than mine claim that the TIFFs are sharper…but with the best quality setting for the JPGs you don’t get noticeable artifacts.

Thanks Gene. I didn’t know that (no more resolution). I think I’ll take a picture and take it on down and see if I need to make changes before I take the wedding pictures.

"Jay Peterman" wrote in message

I want to have a few 8X10 photos printed at a local vendor.
In Photoshop CS it shows the image sizes to be
35.556W X 23.778H X 72 ppi.

Would these print okay to an 8X10?

I can take them in higher resolution (TIFF?).

Also could I use Genuine Fractals, save them to a CD and take them to the vendor?

Thank you.

Gene Palmiter wrote:

From the other posts it seems that you have enough resolution for 8×10 and you are correct that the best way to be sure of your work and the work of the printer is to run a test image through them. For an image of this size you don’t need Genuine Fractals….it does great at poster sized prints. One benefit of GF is that the file it creates is smaller than the resulting file…so if you can email it to the printer that is a consideration….if you check before hand and make sure the printer accepts GF files.
One last thing….taking a TIFF will not give you more resolution. Some who must have better eyes than mine claim that the TIFFs are sharper…but with the best quality setting for the JPGs you don’t get noticeable artifacts.

While that is true,it is also true that every time you resave as jpeg some degradation of the image will occur. Why risk it unless file size is critical? Also jpeg is not really a good format for printing. —
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:16:49 GMT, edjh wrote:

Gene Palmiter wrote:

From the other posts it seems that you have enough resolution for 8×10 and you are correct that the best way to be sure of your work and the work of the printer is to run a test image through them. For an image of this size you don’t need Genuine Fractals….it does great at poster sized prints. One benefit of GF is that the file it creates is smaller than the resulting file…so if you can email it to the printer that is a consideration….if you check before hand and make sure the printer accepts GF files.
One last thing….taking a TIFF will not give you more resolution. Some who must have better eyes than mine claim that the TIFFs are sharper…but with the best quality setting for the JPGs you don’t get noticeable artifacts.

While that is true,it is also true that every time you resave as jpeg some degradation of the image will occur. Why risk it unless file size is critical? Also jpeg is not really a good format for printing.

I’ve seen people opening a file, making a copy then using the copy. I was going to ask someone if that’s really necessary. I now know that the procedure will be on top of my list even though most of pics I take myself are on DVDs.

Thanks for that information.