I just got an e-mail, they want 2 of my photos for the Kentucky Monthly magazine and I need to cut a photo to 300 dpi and save it in rawjpeg and i have adobe photoshop element 2 . how do i do that ? this may be a stupid question but is 640 x427 and 150kb the same as 300 dpi. Help please they need it today.
300 dpi is dots per inch not the no of pixels i.e. 480 x 600 you need to go into the settings and change the dpi from 75 to 300 click the crop tool at the top of screen it now says width height and resolution the resolutin is our dpi
No the photos you post in challenges are not the same. 300 dpi is the resolution they are going to print at ( I assume, anyone else) if they are looking for the originals then you can send them that but if they want a rezzed up version (enlarged for printing) you may need some help. Im not that great in Photoshop so wont be much help. Ask casualguy he and others have the skills you require.
resizing a 640x427 image to 300dpi will not give very good results. You would definatly have to use the original to resize up to 300dpi, to keep an acceptable amount of quality.
It depends on resolution and print size. Your image may be 300dpi but it may only print at postage stamp size. You need to know the measurement of the image in print in order to work out what to supply them.
For example a 300dpi image at 640x427 pixels will print at only 54mm x 36mm. You may also need to convert it to CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) for 4 colour process printing.
If your original is only this size then resizing it will degrade the image if it prints any larger than the measurements above.
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I've never used Photoshop Elements, but I use Photoshop 7.0
In my software, there is a drop down menu called 'image' and an option in that menu called 'image size.'
In this menu, you can change to 300 dpi, from a typical 72 dpi digicam file.
DPI is the dots per inch resolution of the image, not it's actual size.
A 3 inch by 4 inch image at 300 DPI would be 900 x 1200 pixels.
A 3 inch by 4 inch image at 150 DPI would be 450 x 600 pixels.
Find out from the publication what size image they need.
The 150kb you mentioned is the file size (how much room it takes on your hard drive).
If they need an image at 300 DPI that has a larger image size in pixels than your image, you can resize it to a certain extent.
Here is a tutorial about changing image size:
