 Geoffrey S. Faller |
How do I send large files through e-mail? Now that everyone has helped me with the large files, another question? How do I or can I send the large files (300dpi) through our e-mail system. It seems that yahoo and others want to minimize my large file down to 72dpi automatically. The magazine wants 300 dpi! What to do??? Thanks in advance! Geoff
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Andrew Laverghetta |
Are you sending these pictures as photos or files? I had thought that Yahoo had the option to email photos. Your photos should stay the same as when you saved them if you just add an attachment.
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Vince Broesch |
DPI has nothing to do with your file size, or anything else, unless you print the photo or place it in another program like InDesign or Illustrator. DPI can simply be changed in PhotoShop by entering 300, be sure "resample" is not checked, you will then see your print size change from some larger size to some much smaller size, like 8x12. You did nothing to the image, you just changed the way other software will look at it, or print it. What matters is that your photo is around 2400 x 3500 pixels. I'd guess that it is a 24 bit RGB jpg with medium compression, so it's around 1 or 2 mega-bites. With a high speed modem it would take around a minute to upload. What does not make sense, is that since the magazine knows all of this, it does not figure that they are questioning the DPI. For their separations, the image is fine, they have to run it through PhotoShop anyway to convert it to CMYK and separate it. So I'm wondering what is the deal with this magazine? Something dosen't sound right here. Vince
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Did you ever ask them if it was too small image size, or too small compressed file size? A magazine may not be able to print small file sizes and get away with it like a newspaper can, or is willing to. So if you had a 4mb file and resaved it as 400kb so it wouldn't take forever to go thru as an email attachment, they may not have wanted that. Or if there needed to be some cropping done, the image may not have made the size they wanted at 300dpi for printing.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Did you ever ask them if it was too small image size, or too small compressed file size? A magazine may not be able to print small file sizes and get away with it like a newspaper can, or is willing to. So if you had a 4mb file and resaved it as 400kb so it wouldn't take forever to go thru as an email attachment, they may not have wanted that. Or if there needed to be some cropping done, the image may not have made the size they wanted at 300dpi for printing.
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