Resolution Confusion

ColleenSwerb

ColleenSwerb

Brodo gettin her Swerb on
Ok. So part of our contract with our wedding photographer, was that we would receive a DVD of all our high resolution images (straight from the contract "• High Resolution Digital Negatives DVD "). We got a TON of photos, and all was well until the other day when I realized that the images we received are all 72 dpi. They are HUGE files (when I open in PS with my rulers on, like 33 inches x 45 inches for a portrait oriented photo). But at 72 dpi it's printing like poo on my home computer. I've sent several to labs (like Walgreen's and Walmart) and they have printed beautifully though.

Is there a way to convert them to 300 dpi? I tried just changing the resolution but all that did was blow it up to an even bigger sized image.
And I'm confused as to how this can be considered "high resolution". I just wanted to ask here, before I fire off an email asking the photographer, in case I'm an idiot.
Ideally I want to be able to order some canvases from WHCC in larger sizes, but I'm NOT confortable using the 72 dpi files right now (or should I not be worried about it??).
 
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go to image size..change resolution to 300 (or 200, etc) then go up to the width spot and size it back down to something managable in PS and it should work...
 
My camera defaults to 72 dpi, but it is huge around 54 inches or so. I just change it to 300dpi and resize to 10 or 8 in and it works. My wedding pictures were given to me at that resolution too - straight from the camera
 
FlirtatiousBrat said:
go to image size..change resolution to 300 (or 200, etc) then go up to the width spot and size it back down to something managable in PS and it should work...
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Change the resolution but make sure Resample Image is not selected. Your total pixels is all that matters. Your printer was just confused! Once you change it in photoshop, it should print fine. And yes cameras typically default to 72dpi straight out of the camera. I have my Lightroom set to change them to 300dpi when I download them from my cards.
 
Thank you so much you guys!! I'm excited to get home to print it now and see if that helps (which it totally should).
 
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So it should be ok to get things (like a canvas) printed from WHCC then? Right? Just change the resolution and I'll be fine?
 
My camera defaults 72dpi & & I just printed a 16x20 canvas wrap at Christmas time & it's beautiful, as are the 16x20 prints I've had made. I haven't printed bigger than that.
 
apphotos said:
My camera defaults 72dpi & & I just printed a 16x20 canvas wrap at Christmas time & it's beautiful, as are the 16x20 prints I've had made. I haven't printed bigger than that.
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Did you use WHCC? Did you convert it to 300 dpi or leave it at 72? I guess I'm just getting hung up on that. I just don't want to order a canvas that size and have it look like poo cuz I messed up the resolution, lol. 16x20 is about the size that I want to get one of them in (the one of our whole bridal party, I'm obsessed with it, it makes me SO happy).
 
I printed through Black River Imaging (they were having a sale + I had a discount for signing up).

I didn't change my resolution at all & usually never do. The image I used was a 72dpi,
(2103x2944).

I was worried about the 72 vs 300 when I first switched cameras, but read an article or forum post about it somewhere & it was reassuring. If I can find it I will post it...



Here is a copy/paste of a forum post:
"""What ultimately matters is Resolution..true resolution Not DPI.
Resolution is determined by Pixels Wide By Pixel high. So a 3000 X 2000 image is a High resolution image and 300 X 200 is a low res image.
So, you could have a 3000 X 2000 Image at 1DPI and that is still a Higher resolution Image than a 300 X 200 at 300DPI
So go back and look at the actual resolution of the image, the image to start with and the image after you have edited it. If the total resolution has changed you have actually thrown away pixels which you DON'T want to do.
Most of the time when you crop you don't need to put any number in the resolution box, This way you just crop of the part of the image you want and yes you do loose some pixels but you have not had to Interpolate (Make out of nothing) pixels .
Try not to crop a lot, just crop for differnet aspect ratio's 4 X 5, 5 X 7... try to do most of your cropping in Camera..ie...get closer, just allow enough space to crop from one standard ratio 4 X 6 to another... 4 X 5
Also make sure you are using the least amount of compression when saving your images so you don't loose quality with each save """
 
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Thaaaaaank you Amanda, that definitely makes more sense to me now!!

WOOT! Now I'm excited to get some more wedding stuff printed!! YAY!!!
 
Col ... how did you set up your WHCC account? I am not in business and I felt like I was cheating when I went to sign up with them.
 
Just follow the steps Amber. They don't require you to be a business to use them. I felt that way for a long time until I asked in here back at the end of summer, and lots of ppl use them. Just follow the steps to sign up and you'll be fine.
 
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