Damien Symonds

Are your photos all landscape, or all portrait, or a mixture?

What do you need to know, exactly?

I have no idea, sorry.

Yep, shouldn't be a problem at all.

No, those photos are 1200 wide.

Hey, great! Do they mean that all the photos need to be exactly square in those dimensions? Or do they mean that portrait photos need to be 400 high, and landscape photos need to be 400 wide? Have you taken a look at their website to check? In fact, may I have a link to their website?

If you go to another folder and try to choose another (random) jpeg file does it work?

Yes, if you want to do this, that's fine. You didn't NEED to do it, because your file was already 300ppi, but if this helps you sleep better at night, go for it.

No, THIS screenshot:

In your screenshot. "Resolution: 300".

This is an excellent question. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/08/what-you-see-when-you-pixel-peep.html

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.