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09/17/2004 04:46:51 PM · #1 |
I just got my membership today, uploaded a couple of my photos to the DCPPrints, and ran into a bit of a jam with the aspect ratios. I've got it basically figured out, and had to do some work just to get two of my shots loaded. My problem how my camera saves the pictures. Even though it is an just a ps, I do have a few options for picture quality. I have two "best" picture settings, one for 5MP and one for 4.5MP. Being new to all this I figured bigger was better and have been shooting all my pics at the higher setting. All of my pictures are 2580x1932, which is an aspect ratio of 1.34, which isn't accepted. According to my owners manual if use the the 4.5MP setting my pictures should be 2580x1720, which is a 1.5 aspect ratio and wouldn't require any resizing to fit. My question is: How much quality am I really giving up with the lower setting? The owners manual says I can print up to 20x30 with either setting, but I know that I have to resize to get either up to the minimum 150DPI required by DCPPrints (according to DPI these come up to 107DPI). And if I go with the smaller setting, how much harder would it be to resize to get the larger prints without losing quality? Or if anyone has any advice about the best way to resize to achieve the aspect ratio without distorting the picture, I'd love to hear that too!
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09/17/2004 04:56:05 PM · #2 |
Well, the bottom line is, if you shoot in the highest resolution mode, you'll have to do some cropping if you don't want to distort the photo to fit an aspect ratio. Even with the 1.5 aspect ratio setting, you only match SOME of the pritn sizes, since they are not all the same aspect ratio. You'd have to crop differently, for instance, if you wanted an 8x10 (1.25 ratio).
My recommendation is to always shoot in the highest resolution mode, to retain the most flexibility as to where you crop. It's almost never a good idea to give up resolution in the camera, when you can make a more considered decision in post-processing. |
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09/17/2004 04:56:11 PM · #3 |
If you have photoshop,just set the dpi at 150 and the aspect ratio at what you want and crop the picture, you should get good results with the pixels you have, thats all I do and had very few problems, now and again if I over sharpen or edit a little over the top the artifacts appear but very rarely.
Hope this helps.
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09/17/2004 05:15:10 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by peecee:
If you have photoshop,just set the dpi at 150 and the aspect ratio at what you want and crop the picture, you should get good results with the pixels you have, thats all I do and had very few problems, now and again if I over sharpen or edit a little over the top the artifacts appear but very rarely.
Hope this helps. |
Message edited by author 2004-09-17 17:16:09. |
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09/17/2004 05:22:45 PM · #5 |
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09/17/2004 06:26:48 PM · #6 |
| Thanks for your replies, they will help a lot! |
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