Keep in mind that these are minimums and that we recommend you load up your full size files for best prints.
Thanks!
Wording may lead some to think they need to upload "full size" (photoshop 12 jpeg setting) instead of recommended 10 setting thus unnecessarily eating up valuable Smugmug resources.
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Wording may lead some to think they need to upload "full size" (photoshop 12 jpeg setting) instead of recommended 10 setting thus unnecessarily eating up valuable Smugmug resources.
Thanks Bod -we're actually working on some mods to our Help pages that will be more specific on that.
But the short answer: Photoshop 10 = Lab Quality -- very standard in the industry.
Handy information, but I'm a little confused. In your blog you wrote...
We had our minimum resolution very low for some of our print sizes. We’ve recently raised the minimum resolution on 4×6s, 4xD, 5×7, 8×10, 8xD, 8×12 sizes.
It looks to me like the minimum for the 4x6 and the 5x7 print sizes were lowered rather than raised, and that the 8x10 and 8x12 are unchanged.
THe 4xD minimum resolution was raised, according to the chart, but the 8xD is also unchanged.
I use Paint Shop Pro. Would "10" in Photoshop be roughly the equivelent of "90" in PSP?
It's difficult to say. We've done a ton of analysis in the past few months on compression levels, but we haven't done it with Paint Shop Pro. We think, and mind you this is just a theory, that Photoshop uses a scale to 12 instead of 100 because it does some additional qualitative measures.
If, and this is a big if, Paint Shop Pro compresses the same as ImageMagick (they do use the same scale after all), 10 in PS would be generally be equivalent to 94 in Paint Shop Pro.
I don't have Paint Shop or Photoshop on this particular computer, but I do have Irfanview, which has a JPEG compression scale like Paint Shop Pro, I think, in which "1" is the lowest quality/highest compression and "100" is the highest quality/lowest compression.
If Paint Shop Pro is like this, sounds like I should use a compression rate of 94 or 95. I hope this is true, because this is what I usually use.
I think that PSP also allows you to set the type of compression algorithm, but I just leave it at the default.
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crazy, I was just looking for this info the other day.......
so, being a moderator, does that mean you guys have special psychic abilities? :uhoh
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Wording may lead some to think they need to upload "full size" (photoshop 12 jpeg setting) instead of recommended 10 setting thus unnecessarily eating up valuable Smugmug resources.
"Tis better keep your mouth shut and be thought of as an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
Thanks Bod -we're actually working on some mods to our Help pages that will be more specific on that.
But the short answer: Photoshop 10 = Lab Quality -- very standard in the industry.
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May want to add that note on your Resolution Blog
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THe 4xD minimum resolution was raised, according to the chart, but the 8xD is also unchanged.
Am I confused?
Sorry, will take care of that
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Daniel - jpg 10 is Lab Quality. It's a rare bird that can tell the difference between a jpg 10 and 12. Trust me on this.
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If, and this is a big if, Paint Shop Pro compresses the same as ImageMagick (they do use the same scale after all), 10 in PS would be generally be equivalent to 94 in Paint Shop Pro.
If Paint Shop Pro is like this, sounds like I should use a compression rate of 94 or 95. I hope this is true, because this is what I usually use.
I think that PSP also allows you to set the type of compression algorithm, but I just leave it at the default.