 Julianna J. Collett |
Resizing for prints When I take photos for people, I am never sure how to size them and give them on a disc. How do I do that so 50 or so shots will fit on a disc and they will be good quality for printing and enlarging?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
You have to estimate from the file size. Most CDs hold around 700mb, I think. So 14mb per picture. And I believe you can fit more images on a CD if you burn them all at once. Burning groups at different times takes up some space because some info has to be put in so the computer can find the files and put them in alpha-numeric order. So if you save them on a high-quality setting and keep the original pixel amount, you can leave it up to them to make them whatever size they want. Or you can make them all one size so all they have to do is print.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Julianna, How I resize for printing is as such: I take my processed Raw file saved as a 16-bit .tif (which is usually between 50-60MB) and in Photoshop go to Image>Mode> and change it from 16 bits to 8 bits which will knock the file size in half. I then resize the image to about 3450 x 2300 pixels at 240 dpi and this will make the image between 22-24MB. You can write them to DVD, which holds 4GB of data as opposed to a CD, which as Greg stated, only has a capacity of 700MB. This should do the trick for you.
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Julianna J. Collett |
Thanks for your responces. I have not had much of my work printed so I wanted to make sure I was giving people a file that was able to make a good prints.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
You make them jpegs to fit more on a disk. You won't need to have them as tiff files for printing.
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Wendy C. Goeckner |
I save all my files as at least 300ppi uncropped on a CD (or a DVD). If the customer is going to have prints made on his/her own, he will need uncropped photographs because all the sizing ratios are different. On my CDs, I also include all the identical photos saved cropped to 5 x 7 / wallet size, so the customer doesn't have to see all that unwanted background, and understands how the photos will look when they crop them. Of course, the photos look much nicer close-up, but you'll need that added background to crop in later.
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