 Lani L. Ho |
Printing an 11X14 Ok, I have a question about printing. I have a Rebel XT and shoot in RAW or JPG. I convert my photos into TIFF files. They end up at around 22mb. In Photoshop Elements 2, it shows a print size of 48X32. My girlfrind took a file to Costco to print an 11X14, but the girl at the counter told her the file is not set right. I have no idea what she means. When I change print size to 11X14, the new file shows 9.333X14, not 11X14 and the resolution is at 246.857. How do I prepair a file of 8mp/22mb to print an 11X14 quality photo? And, what is the differance between Image Size and Canvas Size?. If I go to resize Canvas Size, it crops it so much the photo is showing very little of what I want, not good. Can someone please explain to me how to do this task, I needed it printed yesterday, but did not get it done because of this problem. I would appreciate any kind of help I can get. Thank you much...Lani
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Krystle Hill |
Well when I resize for printing I just use HP Image Zone (it came with my printer). It is very user friendly and I have never had any problems with it. No clue how to do it in PSE. As far as the canvas size verses image size... go with me here... Imagine you have and artist canvas on an easel, it's 11x14, and you put an 11x14 photo on top of it, they are the same size. If you change the canvas to say and 8x10 but keep your picture as an 11x14, alot of the picture hangs over the edges. Just as if you change your image to say a 5x7 alot of the canvas will show. It is the same as that in your program except your computer is your easel. I know that was a VERY silly anaolgy, but it's the best I've got :D
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robert G. Fately |
Well, Lani, the simple answer would be to go to Resize Image (rather than resize canvas) and change the resolution to something more appropriate for printing. WHile 72 dpi is fine for screen viewing, for printing 240 or 300 or even 360 dpi is a better choice (it depends on the specific printer - the guys at your Costco can tell you what they prefer). Once you reset the resolution, you'll see Photoshop automatically indicates the new dimensions of the image - this does not lose or change any actual pixel data - it simply cruches them closer together. So if you started with, say a 16x20" image at 75dpi (I'm using easy numbers for the math) then at 300dpi the exact same number of pixels would come out to be 4x5" That's right - the 20" length at 75dpi is (75x20 =)1500 actual pixels. Divide that by 300 pixels and you get 5 inches at 300 dpi - get it? Now that you've upped the resolution, you can change the dimensions of the final picture with the crop tool 9there are other ways as well). When you start the crop tool, you see some fields appear at the top of the screen in which you can set width, height and resolution. You can fill out nothing, or just width and height, or all three. Depending on the new size of the image, and your desire to possibly crop out some unwanted portions of the image, you might simply want to set the width and height and leave resolution alone - so whatever is left will still be at 300 dpi (or whatever you had set). I hope that makes some sense - hopefully it will if you try it out on the program after reading this.
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Krystle Hill |
Okay I just went to my hp and it only goes to 8x10 lol. But when I resized a pic to 8x10 the actual dimesions were 6.65x10, so I would say whatever number you got when you did 11x14 is okay. ~K
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