 Kathleen R. Booth |
How to upload to your contest I just submitted a photo to the contest. To say I'm green with digital is to make the understatement of the year. Was my mistake 300dpi or have I totally screwed everything up. Read the "trouble uploading" and it's otherworld language to me. Help!
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- Bob Cournoyer Contact Bob Cournoyer Bob Cournoyer's Gallery  |
I have no idea. I uploaded a tiff image the other day for the first time. Sized it like they said, 500 on the short side, and the image was less that 2.5 mb......looked good going in,but what ended up on this site looked pretty much like yours.
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Andrew Laverghetta |
When I upload an image, I use Photoshop CS but this can easily be done with any other photoshop program. I used the crop tool and set the dimenstions to something like 4x5 4x6 or 5x5/6x6 and then set the dpi to either 72 or what I prefer, 135dpi. 72 just seems to small. Then I save under 12 JPEG (highest quality, least compression) and my images are usually around 300kb.
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Kelly Plitt |
My suggestion is throw "DPI" out the window for now. Simply resize based on TOTAL pixels width and height. (You can choose to size based on pixels in photoshop.) Here's the reasoning: The same precisely sized image can be defined as several different DPI's - for instance, a 800 pixel by 1200 pixel image can be defined as a 4x6 at 200dpi, and it can also be defined as 8x12 at 100dpi, or 16x24 at 50dpi, etc. If you MUST use dpi for resizing in whatever program you use, simply make sure your chosen dpi multiplied by your chosen inch measurement equals 500 or less on the short side. This could be 1" at 500dpi or 5" at 100dpi. It doesn't matter at all for uploading on the web. Hope that helps!! -Kelly
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Kathleen R. Booth |
Thanks everyone, I have just successfuly uploaded a photo. I got back into CS & resized as suggested & everything went fine. I will get the hang of this yet.
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