print and screen work???
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- navitronic
What are the best formats and resolutions for presenting images for use in screen and print work.
I'm currently working on a site that is an image gallery for where I work. We need to provide the images for use in both screen and print work. Currently we're using 72dpi jpg's for the screen work, but we're stuck on which format is best for the 300dpi print work.
any suggestions?
- rabattski0
depending on how the site looks you can actually resample an 72 dpi screenshot to a 300 dpi file. i've printed 72 dpi screenshots once for a package design, resampled it to 300 (without actual resizing), converted it to cmyk and looked perfect. you can also just print 72 dpi file. again, depends on the site, if it has photography it can become ugly.
- navitronic0
yeah it's mostly photographs of rooms and buildings etc. we have most of the 300dpi images already. Just need a standard format across the whole site. It's basically a portal for our sales team to use to direct people to images as opposed to email them out or whatever.
- rabattski0
ok. how big do you want to print those screenshots?
you can also take a screenshot, resample it to 300 dpi, cmyk and recomp it with the hi-res image.
- navitronic0
no idea on how big to print them. I just basically want to know what the standard format is for presenting 300dpi images.
I'm just the IT guy they bullied into doing it :(
- lowimpakt0
not sure what you mean by standard format?
if your putting them onto the site they should all be 72dpi.
- rabattski0
there's no standard format proportion wise. if you're talking resolution. than 300 dpi is fine for print. i do 600 if it's grayscale. if you're going to print big ass posters you can lower it a lot. and talk to your printer to check details first.
- rabattski0
wow. i so misread the initial post. yep. screen 72 dpi. print 300 dpi. if i'm not mistaken if you save for the web an hi-res jpeg in photoshop it autom. becomes a lo-res rgb jpeg.
- navitronic0
The site is basically a place for sales team to have all the companies promotional images stored. So that people they are dealing with can come and download the ones they want. ie magazines, websites, etc. So a kind of portal in effect. So we're having all the images downloadable at 72 dpi for people who want to use them for websites, and 300dpi for people who want to use the images for magazines flyers etc. So what I'm asking is what would be the best format to present the 300dpi images in. what would the magazine guys prefer?
currently they are a mixture of eps's and tiff's
any clearer?
- rabattski0
oooh ok. eps, 300 dpi, cmyk. foolproof.
- navitronic0
thankyou very much for your help.
far too much to think about on a monday morning!
- UndoUndo0
screen = RGB 72 dpi
print = CMYK 300 dpi
- ribit0
72dpi is a myth. My computer screen displays 96dpi. My Palm displays at 320dpi.
Browsers dont render at 72dpi, they render at 1 pixel is mapped to 1 pixel.
All that matters for on screen is the dimension in pixels. A 1600x1200 pixel image will display at 1600x1200 pixels on a 1600x1200 screen, no matter what dpi you have attached to it.
And it will print at about 5.3 inches wide at 300dpi...
- ribit0
sorry.. Palm screen is 120dpi
- joec0
your 300 dpi images should be cmyk TIFF's. if you save them as EPS files, some programs wont be able to parse the EPS data properly and you could get some shifty results when they output the photos.
and ribit, 72 dpi is far from a myth, dude. monitors display images at 72dpi. when its says 320 - it doesnt mean DPI - it means PPI.
peace
- ribit0
my monitor doesnt show 72dpi.
my main point is you can ignore the DPI setting on digital images for screen use. All that counts is the pixel dimensions. The DPI is only metadata attached to the file to describe a print setting.