Part of my role as a part of RED Magazine has been to provide input on the technological problems that arise, like the 600 DPI requirement for all photos in print. Originally I had misunderstood this value to mean the printing quality, and I had shrugged it off. But then I did some more research and realized that image could indeed have a DPI rating. The scary thing was that all of the pictures I had taken for the magazine so far were below 200 DPI.
This caused a scare that those images wouldn’t be able to be used in print, which was a big deal since I had taken the only shots of Ben Karlin, writer for the Daily Show and author of the book “Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me”. Might I add, it’s hilarious.
I did even more research to figure out how hard it is to change the DPI of an image and fortunately all you have to do is re-save the image in a program like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro that allows you to change the value. I just got a new camera and I was able to convert its photos to 600 DPI, as well as the photos from my old digital camera.
Crisis averted!
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May 26, 2008 at 2:56 pm
changing the dpi in photoshop from 200 to 600 doesn’t improve the quality of the image, it just makes the file larger, it also makes for a fuzzy “high quality” image…