ShotCapture Posted October 6, 2011 Share #1 Posted October 6, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) I took a photo with my M9 and I need to submit it at 300 dpi for a contest, In Photoshop CS5 in "image size" my width is 5212 pixels / 21.717 inches; height 3468 pixels / 14.45 inches; my resolution says 240 pixels/inch. How do I find or calculate in Photoshop my dpi? Dots and pixels per inch aren't the same thing, so how do I figure this out? Here are the contest instructions: "All images to be uploaded must meet the following: JPEG, 6 inches or 1800 pixels on the longest side, and at 300 dpi. Your quality should be at its highest." Thanks for your help!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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el.nino Posted October 6, 2011 Share #2 Posted October 6, 2011 If you have pixels you dont need DPI! So just ignore that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted October 6, 2011 Share #3 Posted October 6, 2011 I took a photo with my M9 and I need to submit it at 300 dpi for a contest, In Photoshop CS5 in "image size" my width is 5212 pixels / 21.717 inches; height 3468 pixels / 14.45 inches; my resolution says 240 pixels/inch. How do I find or calculate in Photoshop my dpi? Dots and pixels per inch aren't the same thing, so how do I figure this out? Here are the contest instructions: "All images to be uploaded must meet the following: JPEG, 6 inches or 1800 pixels on the longest side, and at 300 dpi. Your quality should be at its highest." Thanks for your help!!! Since It says inches or pixels, forgo the inches for now. With the small box at the bottom of the Image Size box, "Resample image" ticked (also you want "Constrain Proportions" ticked as well), change the longest side to 1800 pixels. Hit OK. Now bring up the image size box again, untick "Resample Image" and put 300 pixels per inch (as stated above it should not be dpi, a common misnomer), hit OK. Save out as a Jpeg in the highest quality, voila, you're done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted October 7, 2011 Share #4 Posted October 7, 2011 Now bring up the image size box again Agreed, set 'Constrain Proportions' and 'Resample' but you don't really need to open the Image Size box twice if you set the 300dpi (or whatever) figure first, and then you can go up to set the pixel size for the image in the same action. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted October 7, 2011 Share #5 Posted October 7, 2011 Agreed, set 'Constrain Proportions' and 'Resample' but you don't really need to open the Image Size box twice if you set the 300dpi (or whatever) figure first, and then you can go up to set the pixel size for the image in the same action. Steve Yes, I know. I did so because most people will mistakenly set pixel dimension first and then ppi (due to the order of the layout), which will change the pixel dimension. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted October 7, 2011 Share #6 Posted October 7, 2011 It really irritates me when solicitors demand "DPI" instead of simply specifying pixel dimensions. Why do they do that? Are they just uninformed? Or am I? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
01af Posted October 9, 2011 Share #7 Posted October 9, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Are they just uninformed? Yes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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