prepping photos for online print

Hello all

I want to make a few 20x16 prints, I am editing my raws at full res, but at 72 DPI. I did a search and I read that DPI shouldnt be that important and it depends on the printer its coming from.

Is that something I should be worried about? Or should I just keep the images at a 20x16 ratio as large as they can be?

thanks

Check this out if you haven't already. https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?p=3740438

Different people will tell you different things. I like to have the print file be around 300ppi (don't confuse dpi for ppi). If you don't crop to much out of the image you will be close to 300ppi when you resize the original image down to 20x16. Then just resample.

It is more important to match whatever specs the printer tells you they want.

i did a little cropping and some enlarging to fit the 20x16 aspect ratio.

i'm not looking for things to be tack sharp, but look decent standing maybe 3-4 feet away from it.

e r y k wrote in post #5602776
i did a little cropping and some enlarging to fit the 20x16 aspect ratio.

i'm not looking for things to be tack sharp, but look decent standing maybe 3-4 feet away from it.

You want to do your output sharpening after cropping and resampling (if you need to resample to get a required ppi for your print size/lab).

When sharpening for print, many advise to do only a basic minimal sharpening in your RAW processor to avoid oversharpening for output. This is second-hand advice, though. You might want to experiment to get the balance between input/RAW sharpening and output/print processing. Most sharpening software has a preview at 100%, but that's good for avoiding sharpening artifacts. Get it to look as good as possible without things like halos and other artifacts and that's as much as you can ask for.

To do a real-world test, print a crop of your final photo that will fit in an 8x10, and you can get an idea of what the whole shot will look like!

Lastly, digital noise will be more evident with enlarged prints, so I'd give some attention to noise reduction both before and after resampling.

thanks for the info!

i wish i could print a preview, but im probably gonna send these off for adorama to do them :S