Help! Trying to meet specs for the first time

[tabora]

Help! I'm trying to submit my images (from a D10) to an online stock photography house. Here are their specs:

" 42mb TIFF file along with an A4 print at actual size of the image so that colour management and quality can easily be checked. " Image has to be 300 dpi.

So I'm new to all this and going a little crazy. I can make an image that is 42 MB- and not too shabby looking, from my RAW original. But it is way to big to print on A4 paper. Are they asking for the impossible? Or is there a way to make a 42 MB file fit on A4 paper at only 300dpi?

Help appreciated greatly.

Aidan

[robertwgross]

Aidan, you will get a better response if you state which photo editor program you use. The methods for changing, sampling, and resizing are similar, but not necessarily the same.

---Bob Gross---

[evilenglishman]

i think you are taking the specs too literally.

save your original full size tiff, then create a new A4 document in photoshop and drag your original into the new document.

Then just scale down the image until it fits and print it.

Send them the print and the original tiff.

Job done.

[tabora]

Thanks for the fast reply, and it's Photoshop CS I'm using.