All right, grasshoppers, print this out because it’s going to save you all kinds of time and trouble. Oh, and money. How many times have you been asked to send in a photo, “300dpi” or better… Thus leading you on a hunt to a) figure out what 300 dpi is, whether or not your photos possess this elusive quality (probably not; right-click and select Properties and you’ll see) and c) how to get your hands on one without bugging your publisher’s PR rep yet again….
People will tell you that you have to have “Photoshop,” an expensive RAM-hog program, in order to edit your digital photos. You don’t. You just need to go to www.irfanview.com and download their swift little free program. To convert a shot to 300dpi, right-click the photo. Select “Open With” and then select Irfanview. On the menu bar, select Image–>Resize/Resample and in the box that comes up, change the DPI to 300. You might also want to reduce the size in pixels, too. Et voila! Your photo is ready for print.
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September 6, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Terri Farrell
Sounds simple enough.
Just curious though. . .this is probably a silyy question.
Ah, do the pixels go in size by small, medium and large
Or, is there a exact percentage you have to enter in order
to reduce them.
September 6, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Terri Farrell
I meant to say silly question.
September 7, 2007 at 5:52 am
susanwiggs
Terri, I think they adjust automatically. The resize/resample option brings up a dialogue box that has lots of options to click. It’s pretty handy and user-friendly.
September 7, 2007 at 9:05 am
Wendy Roberts
Oh this sounds almost too good to be true. Thanks for sharing!
September 7, 2007 at 12:00 pm
FatherRay
Ifranview has been my only photo maniputlatioon tool for 3-4 years. I find that it does everything I have asked it to do.
It is one of those rare programs that works better than I expected it too …and you can’t beat the price!