Printing Question.

[Mark Handy]

Hey,
I've got a colour printer (Canon S530D), and for photo's only print on
4x6. So, in Photoshop, should I be adjusting the DPI or the image size? I've
never quite figure this out.

Mark

[Mark Handy]

Hi,
I've seen that, but what does it do for DPI, or doesn't that matter
for printing?

M

"Jorge Alvarez" <correoschafa@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I've got a colour printer (Canon S530D), and for photo's only print

on

> > 4x6. So, in Photoshop, should I be adjusting the DPI or the image size?

> I've

> > never quite figure this out.

>
> Click the crop icon on the left palette, set the width
> and height fields to "6 in" and "4 in" respectively, leave the resolution
> field blank, and crop the area that you want to print (starting from a
> corner you can select almost the whole picture, though some pixels will be
> lost because of the ratio.) Now press ENTER, that's it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Jorge
>
>

[Jorge Alvarez]

> I've got a colour printer (Canon S530D), and for photo's only print on

> 4x6. So, in Photoshop, should I be adjusting the DPI or the image size?

I've

> never quite figure this out.

Click the crop icon on the left palette, set the width
and height fields to "6 in" and "4 in" respectively, leave the resolution
field blank, and crop the area that you want to print (starting from a
corner you can select almost the whole picture, though some pixels will be
lost because of the ratio.) Now press ENTER, that's it.

Cheers,

-Jorge

[Bill Hilton]

>From: "Mark Handy" [email]arcturis_no_spam@rogers_get_bent.com[/email]

>I've got a colour printer (Canon S530D), and for photo's only print on
>4x6. So, in Photoshop, should I be adjusting the DPI or the image size? I've
>never quite figure this out.

Image > Image Size and un-check "resample image" and enter 6 or 4 in the proper
box and see what the dpi is. If it's anything reasonable you're good to print.
If your aspect ratio isn't 3:2 to start with you need to crop to the right
aspect ratio as well.

[Mark Handy]

Ok thanks, I tried that, the DPI is over 325. I'm going to start converting
to tiff before I print, just to ensure I'm getting the best quality as
possible. I just tried a print with the dpi set to 600 then cropped to 6x4,
and that made a huge difference in print quality.

Mark


"Bill Hilton" <bhilton665@aol.comedy> wrote in message
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> >From: "Mark Handy" [email]arcturis_no_spam@rogers_get_bent.com[/email]

>

> >I've got a colour printer (Canon S530D), and for photo's only print on
> >4x6. So, in Photoshop, should I be adjusting the DPI or the image size?

I've

> >never quite figure this out.

>
> Image > Image Size and un-check "resample image" and enter 6 or 4 in the

proper

> box and see what the dpi is. If it's anything reasonable you're good to

print.

> If your aspect ratio isn't 3:2 to start with you need to crop to the

right

> aspect ratio as well.