2 years, 9 months ago
What is the optimum DPI for images in a kid's yearbook?
So here is the situation. My wife is working with the local PTA on putting together a yearbook for the kindergarten class. She is in charge of scanning photos in and placing them on an A4 sized page in 4cm squares.
The images were scanned at 1200 DPI.
I would like to know what would be the optimum DPI to use?
1200 is way to high for my lowly computer to handle.
So what is the optimum/minimum resolution I can use that will have "photo" quality, but won't paralyze my computer.
Please include a bit of explanation and/or references with your answer.
The images were scanned at 1200 DPI.
I would like to know what would be the optimum DPI to use?
1200 is way to high for my lowly computer to handle.
So what is the optimum/minimum resolution I can use that will have "photo" quality, but won't paralyze my computer.
Please include a bit of explanation and/or references with your answer.
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M$1 Answer
The standard for most photos is 300 dpi. It will be a very high quality image and anything much higher will probably be more dots per inch than the printer can print.
I worked on my hs yearbook a few years back and everything was done at 300 dpi.
I worked on my hs yearbook a few years back and everything was done at 300 dpi.
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photography student, high school yearbook staff
photography student, high school yearbook staff
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+1 for 300 dpi
If you're setting these up in Photoshop, use bridge to save each back-and-front page as a PDF.
This will make the files a lot smaller, preserve the quality and ensure that the print shop doesn't have any problems.