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I have been asked to send some High Resolution Photos to someone on CD, and the Photos will be used for a web Site (didn’t think you needed High Res for web Viewing) anyway…. do i need to change the dpi to 300 to obtain a High res photo?or can they be left at 72dpi. The photos are jpegs 5.5MB.
No need to send high-res files if they are only using them
on a website…only reason someone asks for bigger files is
to print them themselves and they can do this over and
over again…be very wary about sending hig-res files
to anyone…do you know these people well?Noel Browne.
dpi mostly only matters when it comes to printing – dots per inch.
If your camera records 1200px X 800px then that’ll be 1200 x 800 pixels on screen, and the size will be determined by your monitor. On your 50″ TV it’ll look bigger than on your laptop because the physical pixel size is different.
Whereas 1200px X 800px printed 300dpi will be 4 inches X 2.6 inches. If you print it 200dpi it’ll be 6″ X 4″. BUT… then we get into Dot sizes, think billboards and the rules change again.
So for your dilema I’d assume low res regarding printing but good enough for web viewing. Most pictures posted on PI are about 800px wide, is that good enough? Play it safe and go 1024 wide.
Try that, let them do the thinking and then let them come back to you if they want more.
DPI as is will do
sometimes people ase for the hi res versions for printing, sometimes they have just not decided on the size and space they are putting the picture, they may want to further crop the photo. or if it is product stuff they may want the image and then a close up of a specific spotactually DPI is not relevant to the digital file at all
PPI is the figure relevant to a digital file
PPI – pixels per inch – and when showing in a broswer it doesnt mean anything, as the browser displays the pixels not the density
DPI is a print thing, so for example i mayb get an image from a client at 360 ppi, but i would print it at 1440 DPI
DPI is the number of dots the print squirts (in inkjet terms) and has no connection to the digital file at all
Cheers All, the images are required for Web Viewing, i just spoke to them there, and they don’t need hi res after all. Thanks Again.
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