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Unread 08-17-2014, 05:43 PM
Sharon Passmore Sharon Passmore is offline
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I'm waiting on commenting on this piece until I hear from Patricia about deleting or not. Patricia please check your private messages.

Meanwhile I thought I would pop in and discuss size and scale and resolution. To get a good print you really need at LEAST 3000 pixels. Resolution is a complicated thing too but to put it into perspective...

a computer monitor (not HD) is at 72 PPI (pixels per inch)
this is lower quality than....
a newspaper - 80 DPI (dots per inch)
A high end magazine like Smithsonian 600 DPI
the new digital cameras thousands of PPI

You can see these dots if you look at a magazine picture through a magnifying glass.

Here's a cool chart:
http://www.urban75.org/photos/print.html

This image, Hanging Basket, is 633 pixels wide. Displayed on a monitor we have 633/72 = 8.79 inches
printed at 300 DPI (a passable resolution) 633/300 = 2.11 inches.
I am sorry to tell you that, at 14 inches wide it will be around 40 DPI :-(
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