Proper Sizing For Quality Photographs

You mean 10mp? Don't increase the DPI. 180 is fine. If your images are blurry in the green box it's better not to display them since they may not be printable.

If you ARE increasing the DPI in Photoshop you may also be increasing the pixels size and you don't want to do that. If you change the DPI make sure you uncheck the resample image box!

forget DPI. only use the output size of the camera. the site uses 100dpi for the largest sizes. if your image is blurry in the box, it won't print. don't use the dpi setting in the crop. when you do that, your increasing the size. if the native size is 3600, then that is the size. your current size is like 6400, it's been enlarged. you can't increase dpi at all. remove all the settings from your crop and crop it as is. dpi doesn't apply to this site. increasing the dpi, increases the total size.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

images like this will not print. also you need more tags.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Don't change the file size. Adjusting the DPI is a rather meaningless step. At best it does nothing. At worst if the settings are wrong you could end up up-sizing. The printer sets the input DPI according to the size ordered and the file size. Leave that dialogue box alone. The total file size should be what came out of the camera minus what you cropped off.
The image Mike posted has been up-sized and is a mess because of it. It might not even be accepted for print print at the smaller sizes.

Upload what you have. Do not worry about dpi, ppi, anything. Just upload what you have

Is your camera set to shoot at the highest resolution? The files are larger, but this is what you need to do.
If your camera has the capability to process RAW images,cod so. You can process in Photoshop as 300DPI files, and upload those. Don't worry about the image size. Just shoot and process in high resolution as your camera is capable of, and don't try to go larger or bigger.

Yes, my camera is always set to highest resolution and quality. So in PSE12 I change dpi to 300 because I believed it to be necessary, and then uploaded them. I checked most other art on this site with that green box and their work was blurred as well. So it is apparent that most have uploaded incorrectly? Wish this would have been upfront when I uploaded all of my photos. Specific - size max and min. Though it did read not to increase the size.

So I should then upload them at 180dpi at their regular size??

How does FAA get prints to those larger sizes - they automatically change??

I think I understand now - no increase in dpi at ALL!! I don't crop at all but transform at the very least. Now I will need to spend a whole day in uploading images again. What's the best way to just downsize the ones I already uploaded? I mean is there a simple way beyond screwing up again??

Thanks to all of you. I'm a newbie and someone told me to upload and high resolution...

when you upload, on that page, it says do not enlarge your images, upload them as is. they do expect you to look at the image at a 100% on your pc before you send them here. the site never said anything about using 300dpi. there are no max or min sizes. you upload the size you have.

again, forget you know anything about dpi at all. upload the image at the size the image was born with. faa prints at 88-100dpi for the largest sizes. where as other companies have to use 300dpi to get a fine print, this site has a different method and can do it with less. however it comes at a cost, the image has to be pretty freaking awesome up close. and they won't print it if it looks bad.

don't downsize, the damage is already done. you'll have to go back to your original edits or edit them again. its like silly putty, if you grab snoopy from the comics and stretch him, he's now faded and distorted, and no matter how even you push it back down, snoopy will always be loopy.

you can ask that person what they meant by hi res - and they may be doing it wrong as well. the site won't tell your its wrong until it sells. and then you lose the sale if you can't fix it.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Thanks, Mike.