Image Quality And How You’re Doing It Wrong
Oh, the fear! It’s a common misconception among photographers that an image’s PPI value dictates its resolution, that a magazine-quality print gets hijacked from a 600 x 400 pixel, 300 PPI image downloaded from a Web gallery. Well, that’s true, if that print is only 2 inches wide. But the greater truth is that an […]
Digital Test Prints with Lightroom – quick, easy, and virtual
It’s easy to make a print from a digital image using Lightroom’s Print module. It’s not so easy to make a decent print. Any competent darkroom worker appreciates the need to make test prints to get the best from the negative; workers in the Lightroom can take a leaf out of the same book. First, […]
Connecting the Dots – DPI Tips that Matter
Output resolution is one of the most misunderstood topics in digital photography. What is the correct DPI or PPI to export an image to produce beautiful prints or display on a screen just right? Unfortunately there is no simple answer; resolution, DPI and PPI are all different terms, and although inter-related are each distinct concepts […]