can anyone help me please with some photoshop problems?

[Nancy Wannous]

Hi Richard,
Very simple she has a 1MB file she should go In the top menu bar choose IMAGE < IMAGE SIZE < Then she will see lots of options to look at first
The RESOLUTION must be @ 300dpi < UN TICK RESAMPLE IMAGE < TICK ALL THE OTHERS.
Go to DOCUMENT SIZE AND RE SIZE TO WHATEVER NEEDED.
Then go back and tick the resample image and Click in the resolution box and put it up 200dpi or 150dpi or 300dpi don’t go above cos there is no point of it.
SAVE AS your file just in case they need to go back and change something . They might need to blur a little or clean up the image.
Nancy

[Nicola McIntosh]

thanks also nancy 😀

i have the same problem tomorrow with photos…. 😀
im a newbie in photoshop 😉

nik

[Nancy Wannous]

Hi Nik long time no see lol

[Richard Urquhart]

thanks
i will pass this info on
you make it sound so simple

thanks rich 😀 😀

[David Rowland]

hi everyone, if this is just pure photo that is going to be outputted via a RIP to a Uniform or Mimaki :lol1: JV3 and nothing more then re-sizing is required then do everything in the RIP… not photoshop etc.

Infact today, we are printing something lo-res about 75dpi style onto banner, I looked closely at it and it was fantastic interpolation.

The RIP upsizes things… so within your RIP you should get it to do all the hardwork… If I had a photo of 1024×300 pixels, just resize in Corel designer program or use rip… dont re-sample.

[Nancy Wannous]

Dave If someone doesn’t know Photoshop how in the name of god are they gonna know the rip does it lol

I think photoshop if professional resizing and cleaning up the image before sending job to print and thinking its will come up good. then say oh my lord

[David Rowland]

Oh My Nancy 😉

You gave sound advice.. i read it after I posted.. whoops.

But then again he did say “she can print at bigger size” i guess on home inkjet. So, then you could use Windows XP slideshow stuff as there is a print button in XP and then Fit to page etc.

[Nancy Wannous]

Dave my Dave
still fit to page stuff is so not not professional resizing buddy. lol

[Richard Urquhart]

hi guys
just to fill you in the women is a customer but we are not doing the work because the ads are going to buses and some one eles will do the printing

well we could say let them sort it but i wanted to ask for you help i think as she is a graphic designer see wanted to give the file at the best it could be

dont ask me why she would not know how to do this but i dont think she has got to grips with photoshop

im sure nancys help will work for this job

rich

[Nancy Wannous]

Richard
i don’t think she is a real designer dude. did she give the job to someone else?? LOL DON’T HELP HER TELLING HER THE STEPS. IM EVIL I KNOW.
Nancy

[David Rowland]

hmm ok.

a designer that cant send photos lol

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote wannousnancy:

Hi Nik long time no see lol

no worries nancy……will catch up soon 😀

nik

[Clive Darbon]

Nancy, like the new photo. Have you changed your hair stylist?

Spooky 😎

[Andrew McCreadie]

Hi Richard

Not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, but for a quick tip on upsizing a photo in photoshop, go to image>image resize change pixel dimensions to % and increase in steps of 10% this increase your size and still keeps a reasonable resolution when upsized, but it must be in steps of 10-15%.

Cheer Andy

[Nancy Wannous]

Hey spookyyy
how r you?
Long time no see you either

[Nancy Wannous]

quote Dave Rowland:

hmm ok.

a designer that cant send photos lol

Dave your playing with fire my friend watch out lol

[Gordon Forbes]

Same as Dave at that res just take it into flexi Colour rip or Signlab and make it the size you want then mask or clip it

Goop

[Clive Darbon]

Hi Nancy, I’m fine thanks. Do you like my photo, I’m a bit washed out I’m afraid – some say I’m as white as a sheet!! 😉

Speak soon, Spooky

PS: By the way, I decided to go down the CS2 route, I like what I’ve seen so far but it is difficult to find the time to play around with the software and really get to know it. A graphic design mate said he would come over and give me some quick tips which will be helpful.

However, I have discovered that at present I can’t print out of CS2. I can send stuff elsewhere ie Sign Lab and print out that way, but whenever I go to print directly from CS2 it won’t have it? I get a message that justs says something like ‘Cannot print this file’ or words to that effect? I’m sure it is just a setup problem but I can’t seem to solve it at present, even though I’ve tried changing some of the settings in Print Setup – still no good. I only need it to print out the odd proof on a little Dell Inkjet from time to time, so if you have any ideas I would be most grateful. Many thanks, the Spookster.

[Paul Hodges]

quote Richard Urquhart:

hi guys
just to fill you in the women is a customer but we are not doing the work because the ads are going to buses and some one eles will do the printing

well we could say let them sort it but i wanted to ask for you help i think as she is a graphic designer see wanted to give the file at the best it could be

dont ask me why she would not know how to do this but i dont think she has got to grips with photoshop

im sure nancys help will work for this job

rich

That does sound a bit suspect! you would think she would be an expert in such software lol

[bent]

well as long as ive been in da biz, resolution is important, especially when you size anything up. Rule is: if you size up you lose resolution. Any image that has 300 dpi can usually be blown up about 400% before it starts pixelizing. AND you cant fool the printer, you can plug in any resolution you want but the printer will know what the original resolution was and the parimeters that were set prior to enlargement.

There are pixel building software out there that can add pixels, but they’re only so good, so far. They do help though, when in a pinch….

good luck,
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