Photoshop 101
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- grafiske
Okay. So I used to just shrink images down to print them from 500 inches to 10 inches or what have you. One day my roomate told me I lose sharpness.
I am making some fine art quality prints and want to know how to do this shit properly. I have been using photoshop for over 10 years. Whoops?
Tips?
- ninjasavant0
try not resampling
- ********0
Kick out your roommate.
- grafiske0
My roomate is a professional photographer. PDN top 30?
So I think I will not kick him out, also he owns this house, so.. hmm.
- rodzilla0
could you maybe ask him how he would do it?
- grafiske0
He is in Russia on a photography grant!
- zarkonite0
just don't downsize your image, if you have too much data it doesn't really matter. Your printer should be able to properly handle the file...
- grafiske0
WHAT A PUSSY.
- ********0
When you downsize, take the resolution up 100%
- monospaced0
You have 500 inch images?
When you downsize them, make sure the dpi stays at 300 or above, I guess.
- erikjonsson0
yes you loose sharpness, you have to filter some sharpness masks after you downsize them
- CyBrain0
Aside from the normal resolution issues I'm sure you're familiar with, make sure you have your prefs right:
- ninjasavant0
If you uncheck the resample image box it won't resize anything, just change the amount of information per inch when you resize so crisp edges stay crisp. If you have a sufficient amount of information it shouldn't show any difference. Its the method I use to resize screen captures so they don't bet blurry. Try it out.
- johndiggity0
you really only need as much data as your output device will handle. unless you are doing stacatto printing, anything above 300 dpi would be useless.
- sikma0
I never understood why people "up sample" and "down samaple" before printing.
99% of printing software will resample your image to its output dpi regardless of what you have your file at.