Originally posted by photolady Lowell, that's because you have a digital camera and I have negatives I have to scan in, which asks what dpi I want to scan them at. This is why I deal with dpi.
Rollsup, thanks. I didn't realize they compressed them down to 1mb sizes. I'll sure have to rethink my photo hosting site. That's just.......um.....bad!!
graphic, I'm not worried about drive space, I have plenty in my computer. Besides, every month or so, I burn them to DVDs. But I heard, somewhere, the higher the dpi scan, the better quality the photo. And that was said on this website. I don't know who said it, but it was said in a thread here. I believe it was question from a member about which dpi to use when scanning negatives.
And I do print them occasionally. Mounted and framed.
OK now I understand.
I use 2880 dpi for all my scans. This generates a 10MP scan which is what I use to store all my film shots. From there, if I am going to post, I re-size downwards, as I have described, usually to 25% of origonal, if it is a full frame shot.
If I am dealing with a crop, I do less reduction, in order to get the finished shot down to about 1000 pixels wide by 800 high (depending on crop ratio) but again, I always think in pixels, once the shot is inside my PC.
PSP X2 lets you use any units you want, for the image, pixels, or linear measurement at the printing resolution you specify