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Rikki-Lee

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  1. One last question for clarification... the DPI. If we are going for 6000 minimum mega pixels. the dpi part gets murkier. Are we aiming to have 6000 at 300dpi? Again I know it depends on what you are printing eg canvases are usually 150. But bugger me I am over the technicalities of this side of things. If we have 6000 mp and 300 dpi or 72 dpi. is there are a massive change? (I think for screen purposes there is no difference, but for printing there is?)
  2. Thank you you have confirmed everything I thought. It is murky and my logic was all in tact. And its the men with small penises who expect the biggest for file sizes and the control freak women who need to think they know better. Thanks for just reassuring me I am not a bloody idiot and do know what I am doing :-)
  3. Yep Basic question I know and I am sorry. But, if we do sell the client a "Hi Res" Digital Photo File, is there a minimum w x h and dpi we should be providing. Some sort of a fail Safe. I KNOW its vague - we dont know where and how they are printing them. Sometimes the files do only end up 2mb if they are a photo with lots of white space and dont have "much" in them etc. Is there a basic px width by height and dpi that we can use as a guide and KNOW we are giving clients a "hi res" file. So many times they come back and say, "I dont think this is a hi res file". And it could be 2500px x 5000px but 200dpi (off the top of my head made up numbers) and when they are ordering an enlargement (8x10 as example) )the system they order though gives them an alarm that it is not hi res enough. What is a response to that? Thanks Damien.
  4. I recently did a photoshoot for another photographer and she has told me that she specifically wants them exported at 300dpi and 36 inches on the longest edge. That they SHOULD be well over 10,000px on the longest edge. Usually the files I provide to clients are around 6016px on the longest side. I normally just save as JPG under File in PS after I have done all my editing. I leave it at a 10x8 or 11x8 ratio so that they can print as they like without having to crop too much if its a different aspect ratio. She told me that I had to EXPORT AS from PS and that is exactly how I should be saving every single one of my files when I provide the client with a digital file. Is this correct? I have attached a screen grab of a photo and details that I had printed of my own family that I took and edited. I had it printed at 40inches on metallic. It turned out beautifully. I have attached an example of her photos that she is wanted me to EXPORT AS and ensure its 300dpi and 36inch at longest edge. She has told me she wants to print it to canvas but not sure what size at the moment. I have gone through the logic and cannot work out if her method is necessary or not? To me it seems its the same as just enlarging the photo to a specific size and saving? My camera outputs 6016 on the longest edge, so even if do her method I am just adding pixels that arent in the original? "Please Explain" as Pauline says.
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