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Two thoughts:


1) If Mr.Tom's calculation of pixel dimensions of the original image is correct (ie, 1368px x 792px).  That's way too small to make a print of that size and have good quality.  Even with the best resizing software, the image will look soft and funky if printed that large.  Hopefully your starting image is not the one we have been discussing, and has much larger pixel dimensions, but we simply are unaware of this.  For a print that large, I like the starting image (ie, before any resizing) to be at least 3 kpx in the shorter dimension.


2) When you say that you are sending your image out to be printed "commercially",  most of the time, people mean sending it to some place like Shutterfly, Walmart, Vistaprint, Mpix, etc., and not to some printing service that only deals with pro photographers & graphic artists.  The reason I make this distinction is because the first type of printing service will utterly and completely ignore any ppi specification and/or information on dimensions (in inches/cm) that you have laboriously put into your file.  FWIW, the majority of the images they print have no such information included because that's what comes out of most cameras, LOL. 


All this type of printer will care about is that your image has enough pixels in each direction, and that the aspect ratio of the image file is reasonably close to the aspect ratio of the print size you have selected (so that they don't have to crop too much away or leave white space).  They will do all the resizing for you, so, like Mr. Tom said, un-check the "resample" option box.


Tom M


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