Following on from my previous thread about the acrylic block.
I also had some photos printed for myself I wanted a couple sized to be 16x12. I would normally get my prints done at 9x6.
At first I used to size my photo's to 9x6 then changed somewhere along the line. My reason being that the camera ratio is 3x2 so if I just uploaded the file it would print without cropping.
This seems to work fine.
I am a member of a camera club but never enter prints in competitions.
That said one of the lads at the club sent me a link to this video explaining how to prepare a file for printing.
I watched this and prepared one of the photos I just got printed. The image was 16x12 and printed well and I am happy with it. I also had the same image printed by just uploading the file without me resizing " daft really" as I had that one done at 12x8 and in glossy rather than lustre all for comparison.
I can see from the results that the quality looks the same other than I think the lustre is a better finish but that might be to do with the type of photo. I have no idea whether one genre is suited to a certain type of paper or another.
So after all that waffle my question is it worth the effort to resize the image as in the video as opposed to just sending the file at the native size.
If you have 10 mins to spare I have linked to the video.
Gaz
https://christinewiddall.co.uk/tutorials/preparing-files-for-commercial-printing/
I also had some photos printed for myself I wanted a couple sized to be 16x12. I would normally get my prints done at 9x6.
At first I used to size my photo's to 9x6 then changed somewhere along the line. My reason being that the camera ratio is 3x2 so if I just uploaded the file it would print without cropping.
This seems to work fine.
I am a member of a camera club but never enter prints in competitions.
That said one of the lads at the club sent me a link to this video explaining how to prepare a file for printing.
I watched this and prepared one of the photos I just got printed. The image was 16x12 and printed well and I am happy with it. I also had the same image printed by just uploading the file without me resizing " daft really" as I had that one done at 12x8 and in glossy rather than lustre all for comparison.
I can see from the results that the quality looks the same other than I think the lustre is a better finish but that might be to do with the type of photo. I have no idea whether one genre is suited to a certain type of paper or another.
So after all that waffle my question is it worth the effort to resize the image as in the video as opposed to just sending the file at the native size.
If you have 10 mins to spare I have linked to the video.
Gaz
https://christinewiddall.co.uk/tutorials/preparing-files-for-commercial-printing/