Illusions of Venice
Venice, Italy
Here’s a new photo-story. How does this work for you? Go on, spit it out..
I personally feel some parts of the text are not strong enough yet, especially the link between boxes number 4 and 5. The original story came from my other blog, which I had to shrink so much that it became hard to understand in the end if the meaning got through on the shorter version.
Also the font might be too thin for printing, isn’t it?
And all those guys who are professionals, I need some very practical advice. And forgive me my stupid questions now..
If I put together different photos which I have edited in the past in Lightroom and exported them all with a different resolution (e.g 72 for screen and some bigger ones for print). If I now want to mix them with each other in Photoshop to print it out as a postcard, is it a problem that everything had a different resolution or it’s something you can fix while saving it in PS later? And what should be the right resolution for something of a size of a normal postcard? (1/4th of A4).
Good news is I’m gonna study in Melbourne next semester and I just signed myself to a course “from Pixel to Print”. I’m very excited about my very first class in a photo department!
ahh kui lahe!
To figure out how to mix images of different resolutions:
If you copy-paste one image onto a file of a different resolution the copy-paste image will be resized to match the resolution of the first image.
So open a base canvas @ 300dpi of X & Y dimensions.
Copy paste the images onto it and photoshop will resize it.
so if you paste an image @ 72 dpi it will shrink it to the right width and height for 300dpi.
But don’t ever resample images or try and increase the size of the 72dpi once its been pasted on the @ 300 dpi canvas because it will pixellate.
You can scale down, but you cant really scale up without losing image quality.
I’d suggest you actually make these collages on a large canvas – like A3/A2 so if you want to you can print them out big your can (you never know)
“And what should be the right resolution for something of a size of a normal postcard? (1/4th of A4).”
- resolution & size are 2 separate things
So the size will be whatever (google will have the standard sizes) but the resolution is the amount of pixels per inch
so the lower the resolution the less pixels per inch = lower quality print.
most normal screens are 72 dpi
while printers print at 300dpi
retina display screens are 300dpi
& the smallest font size you should use for print is 6.5 – 7 pt
really like this collage by the way
Than you, thank you, thank you. You put this difficult stuff in really easy words. I always used to look for answers from internet forums and got so much contradicting information. You also saved me from a lot of extra work in the early process
And I’m glad u like this collage, it’s my favorite so far. Looks very artistic, which is a good result from someone who hasn’t really done any arts previously. Haa.
Unfortunately I haven’t managed to get that cool results with other collages that I’ve been trying to combine afterwards. I keep on trying.
I like the concept of this photo-story. Very nice, indeed ^_^
thank you, ill try to catch up with it one day again.