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Patricia Lintner

9 Years Ago

Resolution In Photoshop

I have been searching for a good answer on what the resolution should be in photoshop for art prints. I have some from when I first started that are quite high and want to lower the number. I hear it is better somehow. What is the maximum you would use for selling prints here on FAA?

Also if I reduce the resolution, will that degrade the integrity and quality of my images?

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

it will make the image smaller, i don't see why you would want to reduce the size of an image. 6200px is for a 72" print a higher number is better provided you don't compress the file that much. the more detail, the sharper it is. the larger it is, the larger the piece including duvets.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Patricia Lintner

9 Years Ago

Hi Mike,

It is not the pixels I would need to reduce, it would be the resolution. Pixels would remain the same. I did just get a reply from FAA and they say resolution of 100 is plenty good. I see on the web from what I can find that 250-300 is standard, anything higher would be too small. I am just not sure how much smaller on the resolution I should go. To me it seems 100 would be too low...

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

If you are scanning, scan at the highest you can - higher resolutions make better prints at larger sizes.

 

Patricia Lintner

9 Years Ago

I am not scanning at all though. They are either photos of paintings that I uploaded in Photoshop or digital work I had created through Photoshop.

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

If you are photographing with a camera, just use whatever resolution comes out of the camera natively (digital cameras is typically 240). No need to mess with it.

 

Patricia Lintner

9 Years Ago

So then say the art I worked on strictly created through Photoshop, what should the maximum be for the resolution there? No photography

 

Patricia Lintner

9 Years Ago

Here is my answer from FAA. From what I have been reading, 100 ppi would be too small for larger print sizes. I guess that is why I am really confused....



The sizes depend on your pixels. Unlike other sites we never crop or skew images to fit standard sizes, instead allowing the artist free scope to just upload what they have

The only limits we have are that one of your dimensions is going to be forced to fit the following list:

8"
10"
12"
14"
16"
20"
24"
32"
36"
48"

The other dimension will be scaled proportionally to maintain the aspect ratio of your image.

We only need 100 pixels/inch (100ppi) in order to have a nice image for printing. That makes the math easy as well. Your image menu can be viewed as a pixels/inch ratio, and you can see how many inches wide by tall your image is. ie 10000 would be 100" 1000 would be 10"

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

In photoshop, you make a new canvas - you choose the pixel dimensions and resolution (300 is what I use for my graphic stuff).

Example if you choose:
2500px x 2500px
100 dpi

FAA will be able to print up to a 25"x25" print.



 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

pixels is the size. its a unit of dimension. if you reduce the dpi, you reduce the pixels, you sell a smaller image. i saw images at 3000px so that's 30". and others at 5000px so that's around 50" or so.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

April Moen

9 Years Ago

I create all of my digital paintings @ 300ppi and about twice the size that I upload here. You can always reduce the size and resolution after the fact, but you can never increase them, so it's better to go big right out of the gate.

 

Heather Applegate

9 Years Ago

If you chose 2500px x 2500px @300dpi FAA still prints at 100dpi so you would still only be able to print up to a 25" print.

Pixels is the important part on your end is what we are getting at.

 

Patricia Lintner

9 Years Ago

Ahhhh I'm getting it now. I sold a 30" x 30" so my res was ok for that size.

I just know when you decrease the resolution you increase the document size, which is quite confusing. When I started I had a much higher ppi than what I see is the norm and wondered if I changed that to a lower resolution (which increases the document size) what would happen and what that number (the resolution) would be a typical number. So as long as I keep the pixels the same (which I knew) and just decreased the resolution (document size) I should be ok on that. But if there is no harm in having a higher resolution (smaller document size) then I shouldn't have to worry about changing anything.

Pixels I'm good on.

Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me!

 

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