Foilman Ultra-Thick Heavy Duty Household Aluminum Foil Roll (12" X 300 Square Foot Roll) With Sturdy Corrugated Cutter Box - Heavy Duty Food Safe Cling Wrap

Product Information

In Blue text at bottom: The best plan is to FIRST crop the image to the shape to match paper shape (same aspect ratio). In good crop tools, there will be an option to specify your desired aspect ratio, and then any crop box you can mark will be the proper shape. Simply choose the best crop size and position of that crop box for best image presentation and appearance, to show what you want the image to show (think about it a second, and choose the crop to omit the distracting or empty uninteresting areas, and keep the best view). That box will be the correct paper aspect ratio. Then resample to the 300 dpi size, which is the proper way to do it, and the two pixel dimensions will come out correct. Or 250 dpi will normally print great too (many one hour photo shops do not print higher than 250 dpi). Some crop tools will offer a dpi resolution field to also resample in the same crop operation (do verify your result pixel dimension numbers). The calculator shows the final result crop dimensions that will fit the paper, AFTER it is cropped to shape, and then again AFTER it is resampled to 300 dpi. This proper match is the obvious best choice (No surprises if you choose the cropping you prefer). The printing part (sharing) of the panel has equal importance to the design (creative/framing), shoot (technical execution), enhance (editing and presentation) as the first stage of showing what the photographer sees and interprets. But that is just a choice, and the difference is small, and it will be difficult to realize a difference from scanning at 1548 dpi. There is another different mild compromise which is reasonable at times. For example, at the calculators initial defaults above (scanning 35 mm film to print on 8x10 paper), Button 2 at 300 dpi computes to scan at 2540 dpi. Which is close to 2400, so instead of increasing to 4800 dpi, try Button 3 at 2400 dpi, which computes printing at 283 dpi, which should be very acceptable. You'll never see the difference from 300 dpi, and the local one hour lab probably prints at 250 dpi anyway. If the image was previously cropped to be the same aspect ratio as the selected paper shape, then great, that's the idea. If not, the calculator will advise what the optimum cropped size should have been. Most one hour print shops won't leave any white space, and this calculator does the same. However, before you print it, it would always be a really good thing if you had first prepared the image to fit the paper properly, both shape and size.

To find the resulting product, find the sum of 3 individual product of multiplier and multiplicand. Scanner mechanisms use a sensor with a single row of maximum resolution pixels across the width of the bed (lesser resolutions are resamapled, for which even powers of two are much less complex and considered preferable), and a carriage stepping motor to move that one pixel row down the height of the image. A common procedure that the meticulous users use is instead of entering some precise but non-standard scanning resolution (like maybe 1548 dpi), is to instead intentionally scan a little larger using a next larger standard scanner resolution menu choice, from the scanner menu (offering the powers of two). Perhaps that next one is 2400 dpi, but the next standard step at 100% scale is sufficient. Unnecessarily even larger is not a plus (at least not for this one specific goal). Extra pixels also allow a bit tighter artistic crop, which is often a good thing anyway. And resampling in the photo editor has ALL pixels available, instead of a single row. And it is normally necessary to first crop to match paper shape. The procedure for printing is: First crop to paper shape, and then resample smaller to proper size for printing at about 300 dpi. Or scan small film at 2700 dpi, print at 300 dpi, for 2700/300 = 9X size. If from full frame 35 mm film (roughly 0.92 x 1.41 inches), then 9X is about 8x12 inches (near A4 size). Film is typically small, requiring more scan resolution for more pixels for more print enlargement. The reason to scan at high resolution is for "enlargement", specifically to create enough pixels to print a larger print at about 300 pixels per inch. Scanning larger than any reasonable future use is likely pointless.Both Size and Shape are important, and while you're dealing with "crop to shape", why not also resample it to a much more reasonable size first? (see next Blue step). And then if scanning 5x7 to print a 4x6 copy, that is a size reduction, but an enlarged aspect from 1.4 to 1.5, so it should match the long dimensions. That enlargement is the ratio of the long dimensions, 5/7 = 0.714x or to 71% size. Scan at 300 dpi x 0.714 = 214 dpi to have the right count of pixels to print smaller. The straight-forward way to scale for printing is to simply compute "pixels per inch" for the inches scanned, and then recompute those pixels over the inches printed (called scaling, as mentioned in the scanning Results). The scanner will have its Input and Output dimensions to show this. Also we have photo editor tools to make this resize be easy. See Image Resize.

Having spent countless hours capturing images, editing images and probably re-editing and selecting images your now at the stage of getting a set of prints ready. So, in the case of the 36" x 54" image, having 1/3 of the resolution at 100 PPI is equally compensated for by the 3x longer viewing distance.As a unit of area, it has a magnitude equivalent to the area of a square with sides of 1 foot. This size makes it helpful to talk about the area of everyday objects such as a house (typically 500-1000 sq ft), a room (~100 sq ft) and even an A4 piece of paper (0.65 sq ft) without having to use either very big or very small numbers. There exist, obviously, other units of area that can express the same magnitude as the sq ft and might even be more suitable for very small objects (like the square inch), very big objects (like the acre), or to simply to communicate with the rest of the world by using the standardized SI/Metric units (whose default unit of area is the square meter).

Proper fraction button is used to change a number of the form of 9/5 to the form of 1 4/5. A proper fraction is a fraction where the numerator (top number) is less than the denominator (bottom number).

This is especially a truism when it comes to the RPS. I often joke about the judges smelling the ink on the paper and waxing lyrical about paper choices more than the photograph itself. Joking aside, the assessment for any panel quite rightly relies on evidence that the photographer (applicant) also understands, and presents, the images to a professional and competent standard. This photo sizing guide is aimed at those who want to ensure the print quality matches the efforts made in making the image and then presenting it in print.