pixelprincess
12th of October 2007 (Fri), 11:21
Hey, I'm new here, trying to find a decent photography forum. I have a probably pretty basic question, but I just can't seem to find a straight answer anywhere, so I'm going to try to ask it here, hopefully what I need to know is clear! I hope someone here can help me :) If you can, I will know that this is a good forum for me. lol :D
I've been using Photoshop for a long time and I think everything I've printed has worked out fine, but I've been reading up on the whole issue of not resampling, which I understand (I think) HOWEVER, I shoot with a Rebel XT, and a RAW file opens in PS with these dimension:
2304 x 3456 pixels
9.6 x 14.4 inches
240 ppi
So I know that you're supposed to uncheck resampling- but when I do this and change the ppi to 300, this leaves me with an image that is 7.68 x 11.52 (not even enough width for an 8x10). My understanding is that with 7. whatever mp that I have, I'm supposed to be able to get some pretty big prints.
Now I've read that you don't want to resample, just send the original pixel information to the printer. That's a-okay with me, except for the fact that many of my enlargement sizes (beginning with 8x10 and 11x14) are not the 4:6 ratio so I have to crop them to my dimensions during editing if I don't want the printer to just crop at will. So, this means I HAVE to resample in editing to get any enlargement, right? But apparently this reduces the quality/ sharpness of my image?
As an aside, I've also read that you don't "need" 300 ppi to print (Scott Kelby is one who says this) but WHCC for one asks for a 300 ppi file at level 10 quality, so I don't think I'm wrong in wanting to send 300 ppi jpg files for printing....
If anyone can shed some light here, I would be eternally grateful!!! :)
I've been using Photoshop for a long time and I think everything I've printed has worked out fine, but I've been reading up on the whole issue of not resampling, which I understand (I think) HOWEVER, I shoot with a Rebel XT, and a RAW file opens in PS with these dimension:
2304 x 3456 pixels
9.6 x 14.4 inches
240 ppi
So I know that you're supposed to uncheck resampling- but when I do this and change the ppi to 300, this leaves me with an image that is 7.68 x 11.52 (not even enough width for an 8x10). My understanding is that with 7. whatever mp that I have, I'm supposed to be able to get some pretty big prints.
Now I've read that you don't want to resample, just send the original pixel information to the printer. That's a-okay with me, except for the fact that many of my enlargement sizes (beginning with 8x10 and 11x14) are not the 4:6 ratio so I have to crop them to my dimensions during editing if I don't want the printer to just crop at will. So, this means I HAVE to resample in editing to get any enlargement, right? But apparently this reduces the quality/ sharpness of my image?
As an aside, I've also read that you don't "need" 300 ppi to print (Scott Kelby is one who says this) but WHCC for one asks for a 300 ppi file at level 10 quality, so I don't think I'm wrong in wanting to send 300 ppi jpg files for printing....
If anyone can shed some light here, I would be eternally grateful!!! :)