As all of you ambitious students take pictures over Thanksgiving, I thought I might clear up a point of confusion...RESOLUTION. When I take pictures, I set my camera at the highest resolution, best/finest quality available. If it's a great picture, you may want to print it out later in photo quality. When you do this, you may notice it eats up a lot of memory. If you have no desire to ever print, a low resolution setting will be fine.
In your photomontage and upcoming artist emulation prints, you are only required to have a dpi (dots per inch)/ppi (pixels per inch) of 72, although I recommend a dpi of 300. You set this when creating your photoshop document, remember? 72 dpi is standard for showing images on the web, which is what you will be doing on your blog. If you want to ever print your picture off at the end of the quarter (or Christmas presents?), you will have to create your photoshop document at 300 dpi (print quality). I recommend everyone start with a document at 300 dpi and downsize to 72 later. You cannot start at 72 and go up to 300 dpi later--won't look good. If you are using free stock photos, they are pretty low resolution--pixelated. That will be okay for this formative photomontage, but they will not be print quality.
All of this technical talk...dpi...ppi...Did I totally lose you? Please post a comment with your questions (you will be sure to get brownie points for reading this blog during Thanksgiving break! Mmmm...brownies).
Happy Thanksgiving!
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lol no you didnt lose me...i understand it, but one question! do i need to do anything on my camera for this?
ReplyDeleteYou can use all stock photos for your montage due on Friday. For your 4 photos due the following Friday, just take good photos. Adjust settings as needed for light, focus, etc...Brownie points for Sam T
ReplyDeleteIf I really want to change the resolution/quality on my camera, where can I do this? In the menu? Or is this different for every camera?
ReplyDeleteDo just dpi and ppi on your camera or do you do all of that on photo shop?
ReplyDeleteIn response to Elisabeth...On my Canon Powershot, I adjust the resolution on the main screen with my other menu options. I have 2 settings for quality/resolution (S-Superfine, Fine, Normal) and I also have a choice for my size. Once, again, I keep it on the best settings (superfine and 8M/3264x2448--that's the best my camera can do.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Keely...When you open a photoshop file, you can control the size of the image and the quality (dpi/ppi).
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