best way to print a 4×6

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Rita_Mayell
Sep 29, 2006
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After reading numerous books on CS2 on resizing it seems like I have become more confused. What I have done has been to just use the original file converted from raw to tiff and hit print preview and scale it to 4×6 and print. Now some are saying to get better quality I should down sample? It may be like a lot of things in photoshop that there are multiple ways of doing similiar things. Help me. I don’t want complication just something that allows me to get some good 4×6 of some tiff files that will be printed in larger formats later.
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xenophon
Sep 29, 2006
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After reading numerous books on CS2 on resizing it seems like I have become more confused. What I have done has been to just use the original file converted from raw to tiff and hit print preview and scale it to 4×6 and print. Now some are saying to get better quality I should down sample? It may be like a lot of things in photoshop that there are multiple ways of doing similiar things. Help me. I don’t want complication just something that allows me to get some good 4×6 of some tiff files that will be printed in larger formats later.

You don’t want complication? Hon, you’re in the wrong business, and you’re definitely using the wrong software.

Scott

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Don_McCahill
Sep 29, 2006
that will be printed in larger formats later

Then you definitely don’t want to downsample the main file. You can do a copy, and see how it compares. But downsampling is a destructive step, and you cannot later upsample back to the same level of quality.

Now some are saying …

Test it for yourself and see if it is something you need.
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Rod Williams
Oct 2, 2006
xenophon wrote:
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After reading numerous books on CS2 on resizing it seems like I have become more confused. What I have done has been to just use the original file converted from raw to tiff and hit print preview and scale it to 4×6 and print. Now some are saying to get better quality I should down sample? It may be like a lot of things in photoshop that there are multiple ways of doing similiar things. Help me. I don’t want complication just something that allows me to get some good 4×6 of some tiff files that will be printed in larger formats later.

You don’t want complication? Hon, you’re in the wrong business, and you’re definitely using the wrong software.

Scott

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I do all of my printing with CS2 so it is easy to open my uncompressed final file and print it. I have read that 300PPI is considered professional quality so I resize to what ever size I want to print staying at 300PPI. A 4X6 would be down sampled to 1800 X 1200. 1800 divided by 300 PPI = 6" 1200 divided by 300 = 4" Make sure not to save the image unless you rename the down sampled image.

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