Damien Symonds

It's already 300. You don't need to do ANYTHING. Cancel out of that window.

Sorry I wasn't clear. Yes, the focus is not good. You can't use this photo. But see how her sleeve fabric texture is perfectly focused? That's what I mean by "you just missed it". Your focal plane was very very close.

Nothing else. Save it and send it.

Not at all.

It's perfect, yes.

Perfect.

Oh gee, it's really really close. You only missed it by a fraction. If you'd chosen an aperture a bit narrower than f/2, you would have been fine. f/2 was never going to work for a subject walking towards you.

Great! So yes, go ahead and crop. Make sure there are no values in the Options Bar.

Don't change their size at all. Just change their resolution to 300ppi if they're not that already. What is their PPI at the moment?

Right. And you haven't got to the bonus module of the class yet.

No, sorry, you haven't learned how to sharpen digital files yet.

Then you'll just send a jpeg file as usual, to the magazine. And yes, make sure it's 300ppi as they asked. For web, maybe you just need to do what they say. Don't resize them at all, just crop two versions for them.

You're not, right? You're just sending photos?

NO! The resolution is completely irrelevant. You need the dimensions in pixels.

She's got no freakin' idea what she's talking about.

Yes, but PDF files are for whole ads. You're not designing a whole ad, are you?

You'll have to ask them. Every website is different. They'll need to tell you exactly what pixel dimensions their website requires. Resolution is completely irrelevant for web images. It can be 300, or 72, or 3000000000, or 7. Only the pixel dimensions matter. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/10/how-ive-been-sharpening-for-web-lately.html PDF? Are you sure? Can you show me exactly what their requirements say?

May I see one?

No. Yes, please do! I'm so curious.

Your proof setup isn't turned on, so that can't be it.

Yes, you gave me exactly the right screenshot. Also, your Clone Tool is set to "Current Layer" in the Options Bar. That's bad. It must always be set to "Current & Below".

I have absolutely no idea. I've never seen that before.

You're ON the smart object layer! I can see that you've made a blank layer for cloning, but you're not on it!

Do.not.rasterize.the.layer. May I see a screenshot?

Yes. For ultimate workflow safety, yes.