Iceman_snoot
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Hi to all,
I have recently been on holiday and took plenty of nice pictures! My pictures come off the camera at 3888 by 2592 px at 72 dpi. (54 by 36 inches!). Firstly, I need to up the resolution as I'm getting prints done. Secondly, I can't take a level picture if my life depended on it so these steps are fairly standard for me:
Open the picture, put a grid overlay on the background layer and use the transform feature to rotate the image level. I then use the crop tool to crop out the revealed canvass. I crop at 9" x 6" with the resolution set to 300 dpi.
I realise resizing this way gives no control over resampling and therefore downsizing the image and reducing the number of pixels, but this doesn't seem to reduce the quality. I think?!
Is this way OK, or should I start with the original file off the camera, use the image size feature to resize to 9" x 6" with the resampling checkbox unchecked? (When I try this the res goes up to about 440 dpi - making the file larger than really necessary for no real benefit.) and the use the crop tool with the resolution field blank, which still gives me a 440 ish dpi file! See why I'm confused!
This is my first post here - I have done some research in books but I'm still unclear as to THE way to get done what I want.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Happy New Year!
I have recently been on holiday and took plenty of nice pictures! My pictures come off the camera at 3888 by 2592 px at 72 dpi. (54 by 36 inches!). Firstly, I need to up the resolution as I'm getting prints done. Secondly, I can't take a level picture if my life depended on it so these steps are fairly standard for me:
Open the picture, put a grid overlay on the background layer and use the transform feature to rotate the image level. I then use the crop tool to crop out the revealed canvass. I crop at 9" x 6" with the resolution set to 300 dpi.
I realise resizing this way gives no control over resampling and therefore downsizing the image and reducing the number of pixels, but this doesn't seem to reduce the quality. I think?!
Is this way OK, or should I start with the original file off the camera, use the image size feature to resize to 9" x 6" with the resampling checkbox unchecked? (When I try this the res goes up to about 440 dpi - making the file larger than really necessary for no real benefit.) and the use the crop tool with the resolution field blank, which still gives me a 440 ish dpi file! See why I'm confused!
This is my first post here - I have done some research in books but I'm still unclear as to THE way to get done what I want.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Happy New Year!