300 DPI photos for Canon 6D

[parklandphotos]

How do I program my Canon 6D camera to get 300 dpi photos?

[RobertTheFat]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

B from B,

"... but if the "someone" is running a juried show... but will smile and do as you're told."

Or laugh it off as that has to be a amateurish uninformed 'show'!  Not worth submitting even if you win it.

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Is the Griffin Museum of Photography considered amateurish and uninformed west of St Louis? They're the ones that insisted on a specific ppi. (As it happens, it was 72, not 300, but that's an implementation detail.) Not that following the rules did any good. My wife and I submitted a total of 16 pictures that I thought were pretty good, but none of them were accepted. I guess we'll try again, and follow the rules again, next year.

[kvbarkley]

Maybe not amateurish, but certainly uninformed.

[ebiggs1]

Bob from Boston,

"Is the Griffin Museum of Photography considered amateurish and uninformed ..."

Credibility not with standing, the person that did the acceptance forms for entry is "amateurish and uninformed".

[kvbarkley]

I have actually sent them an email to ask why. It is really strange for this one because they request a dpi of 72 and then turn around and ask for the "framed size" of the print. Isn't that what the dpi field is *for*?

[ebiggs1]

Last try at bringing you dragging and resisting into the digital age.

A digital image, on its own, has no inherent resolution.  It is just pixels. The width and height of the image is its pixel dimensions, and that's all a monitor requires.

The size at which an image appears on your monitor depends only on two things. The pixel dimensions of the image and the display resolution of your screen. No matter what you set the image's resolution in Photoshop, 72 dpi or 300 dpi it will have no effect  on how large or small the image appears on the screen.

That's because image resolution affects only one thing. The size of the image when it's printed. By setting the resolution in Photoshop, you tell the printer, not the screen, how many of the pixels in the image to squeeze into an inch of paper. The more pixels you're squeezing into every inch of paper, the smaller the image will appear when printed. The more pixels you print per inch, the higher the print quality.

Where you lose it is in the Document Size menu of Photoshop.  PS does seem to perpetuate the dpi myth you cling to so dearly.

The Document Size section tells you how large the image would currently appear on paper if we were to print it. It tells you the print size and has no effect at all on how the image appears on screen.  Photoshop may set the resolution of a photo to 72 dpi. But directly above is the Resolution option with the Width and Height boxes.  That is the important part and why it is first.

If your photo will only be viewed on your monitor, no matter on the web,  email, or whatever, there is simply no logical reason  you would need to set the resolution to 72 dpi in Photoshop. Unless you're printing the photo, you don't need to worry about image resolution at all.

I doubt this 72 dpi screen resolution myth will go away any time soon but it can start with you!  

[RobertTheFat]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

Bob from Boston,

"Is the Griffin Museum of Photography considered amateurish and uninformed ..."

Credibility not with standing, the person that did the acceptance forms for entry is "amateurish and uninformed".

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I'll let you be the one to tell her that. Just don't mention my name.

[RobertTheFat]

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@kvbarkley wrote:

I have actually sent them an email to ask why. It is really strange for this one because they request a dpi of 72 and then turn around and ask for the "framed size" of the print. Isn't that what the dpi field is *for*?

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Actually, no. The 72dpi applies only to the sRGB JPEG image that a hopeful supplicant sends to the jury to be considered for inclusion in the show. The framed size applies to a much higher resolution Adobe RGB image that has been sent to Colortek for printing and then driven out to Saxonville to be dealt with by the area's best frame shop before being dropped off at the Griffin. Those latter processes take place, of course, only on pictures that have already made the cut.

[ebiggs1]

B from B,

"I'll let you be the one to tell her that. Just don't mention my name."

Don't worry.  I have no interest in it.

[ebiggs1]

Again B from B,

"The framed size applies to a much higher resolution Adobe RGB image..."

Actually, yes.  A printer file isn't normally transferred over an email.  There is no dpi in a digital image.  You can't set any dpi. You can send dpi to a printer but not as a digital image.  Resolution from a dslr is what it is.  There is no dpi.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to say.  I know I certainly don't have great command of expression!

[RobertTheFat]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

Again B from B,

"The framed size applies to a much higher resolution Adobe RGB image..."

Actually, yes.  A printer file isn't normally transferred over an email.  There is no dpi in a digital image.  You can't set any dpi. You can send dpi to a printer but not as a digital image.  Resolution from a dslr is what it is.  There is no dpi.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to say.  I know I certainly don't have great command of expression!

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I'll try again: When you submit an image to the Griffin's juried show, it has to be an sRGB JPEG with a nominal resolution of 72dpi, a size not exceeding 1920 pixels on the long side, and a file size not exceeding 5MB. If your image is chosen for display, you have to provide it as a professionally framed print, at any resolution you please, with an overall size not to exceed 40x30 inches. The two sets of requirements are unrelated.