UFRAW Help

turnip · April 11, 2006

If anyone is familiar w/UFRAW:

.NEF files, when saved w/UFRAW, are reduced to a res of 96dpi. How can I save the files so that they are saved at 300dpi? I've tried to save them as 8 & 16 bit TIF's and PPM's but they are still reduced to 96dpi.

Thank you,
Nathan.

Mike Lane · April 11, 2006

turnip wrote:

If anyone is familiar w/UFRAW:

.NEF files, when saved w/UFRAW, are reduced to a res of 96dpi. How can I save the files so that they are saved at 300dpi? I've tried to save them as 8 & 16 bit TIF's and PPM's but they are still reduced to 96dpi.

Thank you,
Nathan.

I'm not familiar with UFRAW, but why are you concerned with the dpi of your images?

Art Scott · April 11, 2006

I use Adobes ACR and it saves at 72dpi and that is fine for prints up to 30 x 40 inches as long as I am using the whole native set of pixels (all 3008 x 2000 of them).....the printers will using rip software to get the file to what they need for printing......so all should be well as long as your saving in file form that the printers want,,,,,,,tif or jpeg at 10 or 12 and srgb.

hope this helps

turnip · April 11, 2006

If 72dpi is fine for large prints (which is what I am concerned about) then that is great. However, when I am not shooting in RAW, my JPEG files from the camera are 300dpi, which I thought was the necessary resolution for large prints....

wxwax · April 11, 2006

Turnip, I think it was Shay Stephens who's made informative posts about this in the past.

Here, read this thread, and this thread.

Bottom line, DPI doesn't matter until you send your image to a printer. When you sent your image to a printer, that's when you pick what DPI you want to use. Until then, it's just an arbitrary number. What's important is the number of pixels in your image.

turnip · April 13, 2006

thanks a lot for your replies.

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