Forum: Photography


Subject: Which size is best for printing

alhak opened this issue on Sep 04, 2007 · 5 posts


alhak posted Tue, 04 September 2007 at 3:33 AM

I am taking a disc into Harvey Normans photo shop tomorrow to get some of my  uploads  printed out.  I was wondering should i resize my images back to 1600x1200 how the camera took them or leave them in the size (900x1200ish) i have uploaded on RR?  Which size would get better quality in the prints?
cheers sue


olivier158 posted Tue, 04 September 2007 at 7:16 AM

Hello Sue,

use your original files, not the RR ones ! When you have resized your image to a lower size, you've loosed details. Put the image to a bigger will give a poor result ! The system cannot recreate details.

I'm working on my pics for an exhibition in march, i use only my tiff files in the original size. I give it to my local printer shop (it's a good an pro one), and she plays with it lol)

hope this help
Olivier


alhak posted Tue, 04 September 2007 at 7:39 AM

the shots i upload have been resized to smaller...950x1250.  My original shots are 1200x1600, so i can use the render uploaded ones ok, can't i?


TwoPynts posted Tue, 04 September 2007 at 10:39 AM

The quality will not be as good for the resized images. Take the original files and touch them up if needed and print from those.

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations


inshaala posted Fri, 07 September 2007 at 12:07 PM

What kort said...
ALWAYS print from the largest size possible.  Also doing a test print might be a good idea as well so you know how they come out before you spend a load printing off your entire catalogue. You can also see how well your computer/screen is calibrated in terms of what comes out on paper and make adjustmensts accordingly.

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