ineed some help on resizing photobox image meter

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I took some pictures at my sons rugby match then I used photoshop to crop them then sent them to photobox to get some prints. When I checked them the photobox image meter said the quality varied between medium to poor but when I enlarged them on my monitor they look fine. Anyway I searched the net and somebody suggested that I resize my images to 2400 x 3000 pixelswhich I did with some success the thing is some of the images now look like something out of a 'hall of mirrors' short and squat, some look all right some have now got a high quality image meter rating and some have stayed the same but with a different image size! Would sombody please point me in the right direction because it's driving me insane:bang::bonk:
Thanks for your help in bringing back my sanity.
 
Photo box usually takes jpegs as upload images. Did you send them your cameras full resolution images, I.e. you haven't sent them smaller or less quality?
Resizing your images has to be done to the same format as your original images. If you don't do this the obviously you'll stretch the image one way.

What resolution size pics are you ending to photo box. What's the file size in mb's
 
Well it depends on your software, you need to look for resize to scale tools....In adobe PS that comes in a few forms. A check box in the image resize window must be ticked, leaving you the choice just to put the longest dimension in, which ensures the other edge will resize to scale.
Another tool is the Free Transform tool (make your canvas bigger first in the same way, canvas/size) With the Free Transform you can select scale or distort, skew etc...select scale again and you can drag the image to a larger scale.
 
Just in putting numbers to change the size could all so alter the aspect ratio of your camera sensor . Your resizing soft ware should have a retain proportion box to tick , tick it then add the longest side of the file . it might not give you the exact size that you want but it will give you the nearest with out stretching or shrinking the image .
 
Hi Paul, I'm the CTO at photobox. If we are showing a poor quality indicator for your photos then increasing their size in a photo editing package won't normally help. You can't add quality into a photo if it is already missing.

To understand this better can you let me know what size your photos are to start with, and what type of product you are trying to order?
 
Hi Photobox Graham If indeed incresing the size doesn't normally help, Well it did in a number of my pictures. I'am not trying to discredit your company in fact apart from 1 photobook that I ordered from your company which may I add was crap I have been more than happy with any prints received from your company. All that I am asking is that why does the photobox image meter say one thing, then when I enlarge them on my pc's monitor they look fine?
 
-Paul- said:
Hi Photobox Graham If indeed incresing the size doesn't normally help, Well it did in a number of my pictures. I'am not trying to discredit your company in fact apart from 1 photobook that I ordered from your company which may I add was crap I have been more than happy with any prints received from your company. All that I am asking is that why does the photobox image meter say one thing, then when I enlarge them on my pc's monitor they look fine?
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Because your monitor displays at 72ppi. You print at iro 300dpi, so unless there's enough pixels, you won't get the same quality from print.
 
-Paul- said:
Hi Photobox Graham If indeed incresing the size doesn't normally help, Well it did in a number of my pictures. I'am not trying to discredit your company in fact apart from 1 photobook that I ordered from your company which may I add was crap I have been more than happy with any prints received from your company. All that I am asking is that why does the photobox image meter say one thing, then when I enlarge them on my pc's monitor they look fine?
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I agree with Graham, tell us what editing program you have and it will make it easier for one of us to guide you through the steps needed to upload at maximum quality.

We need to know, what camera (for ratio reasons 3:2 , 4:3 , 5:4 etc)

What size photos yo want printing

What software you have.
 
Paul,

When you 1st open up the image in PS (after it has been through the raw processor too ACR), go to (on the top menu) Image>Image Size then you will have a window appear.

Make sure constrain image proportions and resample are both ticked on, make the resolution 300, then go to the document size and change the size to inches (if you are working in them as most photo sizes are) then select 6 for width (if you are having a 6x4 image done, this is only if you are not cropping and are keeping your native 3:2 ratio size) then your image will open up at a 6x4 image. You can then edit it in your normal way and save it and upload and that should be great for Photobox.

If you need to have a none native ratio size ie: 7x5 or 8x6 you will need to use the crop tool. let me know.

I have been looking for some PS 6 youtube vids and there are quite a few to look at to help you.
 
-Paul- said:
Thanks for your help Tiler but what should I do if I need to crop the same thing? and should I crop before I resize?
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Paul, I am not up to scratch with PS 6 as it is quite old (I take you mean PS 6 and not Photoshop CS6) and I am going to hope these steps are backward compatible.

Open your image, then select the crop tool and enter the dimentions in the boxes provided (this one is for a 7x5 crop from a 3:2 ratio image)


crop1.png


The hold the cursor over the image and drag out to form the crop.

When you let go you will be left with something like this.

Crop.png


Now you can move the crop rectangle around the image to suit where you want it and then click the big tick (or OK not sure in PS6) on the menu bar to the right and your crop will be done at the correct size. Then edit and save as per your normal way. Upload at the corrected size to Photobox.

Just one more point Photobox does let you manually crop once you have uploaded an image but the quality really suffers if you try and crop to a larger size than the one you started with. Photoshop handles upscaling much better that is why you upscale before you do any editing so that PS can process it the way it knows best.
 
Thanks Tiler big help! just one more hopefully not to daft question. If I swant to zoom in to one part of an image can I doe this then crop it to the correct ratio? Hope that made sense!
 
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