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Digital Photography 101 – Digital Photo Printing Basics by Autumn Lockwood
With digital photography there are many ways you can share your pictures but for those really good photos, most people still want to print them out and frame them for all to see.
In addition to framing and displaying your best pictures, there are several other reasons that you may want to print your photos. Here are some of the ways you can use printed pictures:
* Framed for the mantle, table and wall displays
* Posters
* Wallet pictures
* Memory books
* Greeting cards
* Photo crafts
* Photo competitions
Even in our digital day and age, we still have lots of interesting and beautiful things to do in print! Unfortunately, printing a picture isn’t as simple as clicking the print button on your computer. Printing a quality print of a photograph is trickier than printing, say, a flyer. These photo printing tips will help make the process easier so you can get better quality prints.
Digital Photography 101 – Size Counts
Before you resize a picture on your computer, figure out first if you may ever want to print it. If you do want to print it, always save the original.
The first thing to understand is how many pixels are needed when taking a picture in order to get a high enough resolution to produce a quality print for the physical size you want. Below are some figures to help.
High Quality Picture: 10×13 inches
2592 x1944 pixels (a 5 mega pixel camera set for high resolution)
High Quality Picture: 9×12 inches
2272 x 1704 pixels ( a 4 mega pixel camera set for high resolution)
High Quality: 8 x 10 inches
2048 x 1536 pixels (3 megapixel camera set for high resolution)
High Quality Picture: 4×6 or 5×7 inches
1600 x 1200 pixels (2 megapixel camera set for high resolution)
So, it’s true that you don’t need a camera with a lot of mega pixels in order to get quality photographs.
Using the proper settings on your printer is also important to getting a quality picture. Look at your camera manual or the manufacturers recommendations on their website. Then use a photo editor to resample the photos to the appropriate dpi. If you’re new to digital photo printing, dpi stands for “dots per inch.”. The more dots per inch, the smoother the picture grain and the better the image looks. Ink jet printers used today for printing quality pictures often have dpi resolution of around 1200 to 4800. This sort of dpi will produce quality prints of photographs that have around 140 to 300 pixels per inch.
The ppi (pixels per inch) is the measurement for the resolution of a digital picture and should not be confused with the height and width of a picture. For example a 200 pixel x 300 pixel photograph would be quite small, while a photo with a 300 ppi needn’t be small because ppi refers to the quality not the physical size of the picture.
Digital Photography 101 – Paper for Picture Perfect Prints
Make sure to use photo printing paper and if possible, use paper that is recommended by your printer’s manufacturer for best results. For projects like greetings cards, use special card stock paper. Both are sold at many office supply and crafts stores, as well as online.
If you need high quality prints or extra large pictures, you can also go to your local photography store or order them online from a reputable retailer.
Have fun printing your digital images!
About the Author
Autumn Lockwood is a writer for Your Picture Frames and loves framing pictures. Shop online and see our large selection of Unique Picture Frames like our flower picture frames.
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