Need help resizing an image for printing

Factual Questions
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I need to print a photo onto credit card size paper. The image has the current dimensions

X 1038 Pixels
Y 682 Pixels.

What size do I need to adjust to?

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Most prorams allow you to switch between pixels and inches.

However, if yours doesn’t, give me the dimensions and I’ll tell you the pixel dimensions.

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Rico I’m using Nero PhotoSnap as my printing and resizing app. For resize it allows me to specify Pixels and Percentage, If there is a better free app to use please let me know. The credit card size paper I’m printing to is Two inches by Three and a third it looks like

4

i am usin photo shop

5

Last I checked Photoshop was not free

6

Try 219x144.

7

And Irfanview is a GREAT free app.

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Thanks that worked.

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Np problem! Glad to help.

10

But that’s like 72 dpi. That’s fine for showing on a computer monitor, but isn’t it fairly pixelly on paper? If it were me I’d want to print it at least 150 dpi, preferrably 200-300 dpi. IOW, the pixel resolution was OK, Manny just needed to resize the physical dimensions it was printing out as.

I don’t know anything about Nero PhotoSnap however, so it may not be possible for that program. I use Paintshop for cropping/resizing pictures.

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Uh . . . I think some (or all) of you are making a very common mistake. You’re confusing “pixels per inch” with “dots per inch.”

“Pixels” refers to the resolution of the file, itself, in your computer. “Dots” refers to the actual dots that are printed in your output. There’s no automatic correlation between the two terms; the number of “ppi” an image has, tells you absolutely nothing about the “dpi.”

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I disagree. While they are not the same thing, they are pretty darn close. The printer (in case of images, at least) prints pixels. Nothing else. You CAN give it data in another ppi, but the result would not be optimal.

To print something with a certain dpi, the ppi needs to be of at least equal value, otherwise the print quality will not be the same as the dpi could provide - in essence, this will result in seemingly using a lower dpi.

The ppi can also be higher than the dpi, which is a good thing to keep in mind. The image in question would probably have been better off having a greater ppi, since it was indeed meant for 72 dpi and so will never acheive higher quality, even though the original image had more than enough pixel data for this.