Can you help me with picture please?

[LouiseTopp]

I hope this is the right forum?

Hi I am in a bit of a delemma at the moment. One of my photo's which I titled heaven has been chosen by the London photo gallery to exhibit. They want me to send the image at 300 dpi high res JPEG (2-3 MB).

The thing is I don't know how to make it 300 dpi as I did it in a programme called Picture monkey which compressed it a bit. Please can you tell me how I can get the resolution to 300 dpi?

I am thrilled it has been chosen, but I am now worried I am going to miss out as per usuel because of my stupid lack of knowledge.

I have to get it to them by the 18th of October.

Can you advise me please?

[billtils]

Louise

Congratulations on having the photograph selected! I don't know anything about PicMonkey, but their website has a "contact us for help" link (http://www.picmonkey.com/help/support/new) which you could try.

[LouiseTopp]

Thanks, I'll be really disapointed if i miss out again. I've had so many set backs and let downs, this will add to a long list. Have emailed picture monkey but sometimes they give confusing answers or don't reaply for months.

[Donald]

Louise

When you look at the picture file details in your computer, how many Mb or Kb is it? Also, are you able to see how many pixels by how many pixels it is; e.g 3888 x 2592?

Did you shoot it in RAW or as a JPEG?

ps - I mean the file that came out of your camera, before you processed it with Picture Monkey.

[LouiseTopp]

how many Mb or Kb is it? Also, are you able to see how many pixels by how many pixels it is; e.g 3888 x 2592?

How do I find this out please?

I shoot it in Jpeg.

[billtils]

Louise

A follow-up to Donald's post. I'd guess that the attraction of PicMonkey is that it is free, however ...

You don't mention what camera you have, but I'd make another guess, that you use the manufacturer's software to download the images from it before editing in PicMonkey. And, to go for 3 guesses in a row (but no bonus point) I'd also guess that the same piece of manufacturer's S/W has editing capability that will allow you to access the info that Donald is asking about, and to resize (if required) to meet the photo gallery's specs.

[rpcrowe]

Many organizations ask for a photo sized in DPI (dots per inch) when they probably really want PPI (pixels per inch).

These articles are attempts to explain the difference between DPI and PPI which is confusing to many people - even those who SHOULD KNOW BETTER...

http://www.andrewdaceyphotography.com/articles/dpi/

https://99designs.com/designer-blog/...he-difference/

Here is a YouTube video on that same subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S2cnZ2QR70

[xpatUSA]

How do I find this out please?

I shoot it in Jpeg.

Louise, if you are in Windows, click somewhere once then put your mouse over the image icon but do not click. A popup hint thingy (slight delay) should tell you the image size in pixels and also the file size. Or (Win 7), right-click on the icon and select 'properties'; the file size shows in the 'general' tab and the image size shows in the 'detail' tab.

[george013]

I hope this is the right forum?

Hi I am in a bit of a delemma at the moment. One of my photo's which I titled heaven has been chosen by the London photo gallery to exhibit. They want me to send the image at 300 dpi high res JPEG (2-3 MB).

The thing is I don't know how to make it 300 dpi as I did it in a programme called Picture monkey which compressed it a bit. Please can you tell me how I can get the resolution to 300 dpi?

I am thrilled it has been chosen, but I am now worried I am going to miss out as per usuel because of my stupid lack of knowledge.

I have to get it to them by the 18th of October.

Can you advise me please?

Just send them the JPG you have out of the camera, forget about the dpi, that's just nonsens to ask.
If you shot in JPG, than that's the maximum you can get. If you shot in RAW, than you can choice the compression yourself.
And don't save the JPG when editing. Everytime you save it will lose quality .

And congratulations.

George

[xpatUSA]

I hope this is the right forum?

Hi I am in a bit of a dilemma at the moment. One of my photo's which I titled heaven has been chosen by the London photo gallery to exhibit.

Sorry, a bit late with a response to this, I'll just complement what others have said, best I can.

They want me to send the image at 300 dpi high res JPEG (2-3 MB).

The Gallery can not tell you what file size to send - that is entirely dependent on your image size and content in addition to the final JPEG selection e.g. "FINE".

The thing is, I don't know how to make it 300 dpi, because I did it in a programme called Picture monkey which compressed it a bit. Please can you tell me how I can get the [print] resolution to 300 [ppi]?

One way is to edit your image to your satisfaction full size and post it somewhere on the web so that one of us can re-size it to what the Gallery wants (do we know what image size?) and whoever does that can set the ppi too.

Another way is attach your original out-of-the-camera, or your Picture-monkey file, or both, to an e-mail and send it to, for example me, and I'll do it for you. PM me if interested and I'll give you my address. It's not too late, this kind of stuff takes minutes, not hours or days

I am thrilled it has been chosen, but I am now worried I am going to miss out as per usual because of my stupid lack of knowledge.

I have to get it to them by the 18th of October.

Can you advise me please?

We'll get ya fixed up, never fear . . . .

[Manfred M]

Louise - your lack of editing tools and experience is not helping you in this endeavor.

Most galleries display prints and have standards that the submitting artist must adhere to when sending in files electronically:

1. Size - this is usually determined by the paper they print on; they. The 300 dpi tells me that they are likely planning to print this using a Canon printer as this is the native resolution of that family of photo printers. They are likely not printing the images themselves, but are turning these over to a commercial printer to do this work.

2. Colour space - Most commercial printers use sRGB as a default, some will use the AdobeRGB colour space as well. You should know how to prepare your image for printing by converting to the correct colour space.

3. Output sharpening - When you prepare an image for printing, output sharpening needs to be performed to ensure that the appropriate sharpness is applied. This is dependent on the type of paper that is used and the final print size.

4. Exposure correction - most computer screens are turned up too high when the image is edited and this means that the print turns out looking too dark. This needs to be handled, so check with the gallery as to how they plan to do this.

5. Most printers use a colour managed workflow. Unless you do as well, which means using a calibrated and profiled computer screen, the printed image will not display the correct colours.