Sept2011_NETWORK TOPIC Photos
These days everybody seems to have a digital camera and sends photos to us via email.
Often contributors send their article in a Word document and “insert” the photos into this document, but these photos become distorted, or are too small a file when brought into our graphics program to do the “tweaks” necessary to have them suitable for the printing process. Remember to also “attach” your photos to your email as a separate picture-type file, but don’t opt to reduce the file size in your email.
Tips for when taking photos: Don’t choose the setting that gives you the maximum number of photos on your camera’s memory card, instead choose the highest quality setting – for the best prints, especially after cropping. We need the photo image that is a minimum of 1063 pixels in width – check your camera’s manual for the pixels contained in the different quality settings.
With my first digital camera I paid $99 for a memory card (an SD card) with 128MB capacity. Now you can’t even buy them with that small a capacity! You can purchase cards with easily over 15 times this capacity (i.e. 2GB) for under $30. They’re re-usable so it is just a matter of having enough capacity with you for your day’s photo-taking. Download photos onto your computer, remembering to create a back-up copy (e.g. CD, DVD or USB Drive etc), delete the photos on the card – and you’re ready for more photo taking. (Take a spare card with and snap away. Take multiple shots. Choosing the best pics comes later!)
What do we do with your digital photos? We concentrate the pixels (or dots) that make up the photo so that there are 300 dots per inch (dpi) – 1 inch equals 2.54cm. Most digital cameras produce a photo that is 72 or 96 dpi. Concentrating these dots to achieve 300 per inch reduces the size of the photo. In the case of 72 dpi the photo ends up at 24% of its original size; at 96 dpi the photos becomes 32% of the original size.
COPYRIGHT: If sending a photo taken by a professional photographer, please ensure that you also advise any wording required by us for acknowledging the photographer.
Tips for when taking photos: Don’t choose the setting that gives you the maximum number of photos on your camera’s memory card, instead choose the highest quality setting – for the best prints, especially after cropping. We need the photo image that is a minimum of 1063 pixels in width – check your camera’s manual for the pixels contained in the different quality settings.
With my first digital camera I paid $99 for a memory card (an SD card) with 128MB capacity. Now you can’t even buy them with that small a capacity! You can purchase cards with easily over 15 times this capacity (i.e. 2GB) for under $30. They’re re-usable so it is just a matter of having enough capacity with you for your day’s photo-taking. Download photos onto your computer, remembering to create a back-up copy (e.g. CD, DVD or USB Drive etc), delete the photos on the card – and you’re ready for more photo taking. (Take a spare card with and snap away. Take multiple shots. Choosing the best pics comes later!)
What do we do with your digital photos? We concentrate the pixels (or dots) that make up the photo so that there are 300 dots per inch (dpi) – 1 inch equals 2.54cm. Most digital cameras produce a photo that is 72 or 96 dpi. Concentrating these dots to achieve 300 per inch reduces the size of the photo. In the case of 72 dpi the photo ends up at 24% of its original size; at 96 dpi the photos becomes 32% of the original size.
COPYRIGHT: If sending a photo taken by a professional photographer, please ensure that you also advise any wording required by us for acknowledging the photographer.
