Question about "high resolution"

[BuddhaGirl]

I got a request from a newspaper that they want to run a photo of mine in this Sunday's edition

They asked for a "high resolution" copy, and I'm not exactly sure what dimensions, size, etc. that means...can anyone advise me? I'm not knowledgable in that area...

Thank you!!

[ohheckyeah]

1. High resolution

refers to the DPI and I would think that 300 dpi would be acceptable. They can adjust the size so whatever you have as long as it is at least 300 dpi should be okay.

[BuddhaGirl]

2. Cool...thank you!!

[ohheckyeah]

5. You're welcome.

I shoot in higher resolution myself and scan film prints in higher resolution but it's not necessary.

Congratulations on the newspaper printing your photo! Very cool.

[ljm2002]

3. To expand on ohheckyeah's reply...

...you need to know the target size of the printed image, e.g. 3" x 4". Then your image would need to be at least 900 x 1200 pixels to print at 300 dpi (dots per inch). For a bigger target size, your digital image will need to be proportionately larger.

You should ask the newspaper, they can tell you exactly what they need.

[NV Whino]

4. Iwouldnt worry too much about size

Your original file needs to be 300 dpi. Then they can size it to whatever they need and retain the 300 dpi resolution.

Just an FYI: Newspapers used to accept only 75 dpi. It was all the newsprint could handle without all the dots bleeding together. We've come a long way.

[ohheckyeah]

6. Wow -

things have come a long way. I pulled out my college photography textbook the other day and turned to the chapter on digital photography and had to laugh at the references to computer RAM and hard drive sizes. Oh, and the SDHC card sizes in MB. LOL I don't think you can even get the cards in MB sizes any more.

[sir pball]

10. Man, I just keep feeling older and older

My college photography book, (c)1996, didn't say anything about digital whatsoever. I mean, it was around, I had dropped $400 on a Kodak DC25 (it had a flash, PC Card slot and COLOR LCD THAT SHOWED THE PHOTOS OMG) but the only actually-usable cameras were the $10K+ backs for film SLRs, targeted at people far beyond any textbooks.

The book did have two full chapters on tilt and shift though. I've always wanted to try that..

[ohheckyeah]

11. Mine actually had quite a bit about digital photography

and a whole chapter on Photoshop.

[CC]

7. If you give them a copy

of the full size file without any resizing they should be able to do what they need and get the best print. The more information they have in the file the better they can reproduce it. If they require you turn it into a JPG (or TIF) then do that and make sure you set everything to high. If they can handle your RAW files even better. They might give you more info if you call and ask them. I know our paper would be happy to to that if they wanted a photo.

[BuddhaGirl]

8. I sent them a copy with 300dpi

and asked them to let me know if they need anything different...I'm pretty excited!!

Thank you all for your replies!!

[jmowreader]

9. Ask what size they plan to run the picture

If you send them a file that's two inches wide x 300 dpi, and they have to scale it to 10 inches wide because it's running full-width on the page, your file is now going to be 60 dpi. Once you know the dimensions, you can set it to that size x 300 dpi (for newspapers 200 is plenty because we only run 66 to 100 line screens; if you were going in a glossy magazine that runs 150 to 175 line screens 300 would be more appropriate) and know you got it.