patrice_bennett

Thank you everyone for your responses, I appreciate them!

Thank you very much for your explanation. Let me just ask one more question: If I have my camera set to jpg/fine/large and the editing software gives a dimension of 3872X2592 at 300ppi - that means that I can get a 12.9 X 8.64 print without distortion, but what if I wanted an 11 x 14 - what then happens?

A little bit of both to be honest, but more so with the light white balance and file management - e.g.: If I set the camera to jpg/fine/large - I get 300ppi - how can I get 72ppi?

Hello,

 

I have a digital SLR and I'm looking to gain more knowledge as a whole on

digital photography and what the camera does. Reading the manual for the

camera is not quite enough, I'm looking for better explanations of what

settings to use, when to use them etc. Can anyone recommend a good read?

I guess my real questions is - can you change the dpi settings on the camera or are these settings interchangeable once you edit in photoshop? Also, is there a difference in the quality of the image (sharpness) if you can change these settings on the camera? Let's say on a Nikon D80 for instance.

The "dimensions" in Adobe Bridge say 3872 X 2592

Okay - here is a quote from someone that is trying to help me fix some images:

 

"

I note, these are exceptionally small files for a digital camera. At this

size, we certainly can deal via e-mail for all of them. However, I asked for

high-resolution pics because they turn out better because, their larger size

provides more detail in them to work on. While these are 300 PPI, which is

considered high resolution, they are only about 1.5 inches x 1 inch in print

size! This makes for a fairly small pixel size too, making it that much more

difficult to get the best results.

 

That said, I nonetheless can fix these up significantly, just not the bit more

I could have done with larger files. Did you do anything to change the dots

per inch on them to 300? I guess digital cameras can be set different ways,

but typically they make them 72 dpi and HUGE print and pixel dimensions (with

those huge dimensions, I can then change the dpi to higher and still have

large enough print size). Yours are the opposite.

 

But this also will mean you need to consider what you will use these pics for.

The print size is too small for anything but thumb nail pics. The pixel

dimensions are small but still large enough for reasonable use on the Web. Had

they been huge pic files, I could have given you pixel dimensions, print size

and dpi at whatever you wanted. At any rate, I hope you will be showing these

to the company on the computer -- because as they are, they won't work as

prints. I note, I can make them large enough for snapshot print size of around

4.5' x 3 ' -- but I would have to reduce the dpi "

 

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I guess I don't understand all of this because it seems to me that the 300 dpi

should be better than 72 dpi and I always use 300 dpi getting good results at

larger print sizes.....

 

Can someone explain this to me?