Digital Camera
 With the advent of digital cameras it is
important to know how to photograph and submit these pictures for the best
possible reproduction. The final print quality will be directly related to how the digital photos are taken and in what format
they are submitted.
- Set the camera to the highest quality mode
available on the camera prior to shooting the photograph.
- Download all images you plan to use and open
them in your image editing software. Change the images to the “color space” in
which they will print. (i.e. grayscale for black and white reproduction or
CMYK for full color reproduction) DO NOT supply images in the RGB of “INDEX”
color spaces.
- If you are color correcting do so at this
point.
- Size the images to “approximately” the size
they will be used in the page layout application (i.e. Quark, PageMaker,
InDesign). Be sure that when you are reducing the image size the resolution
(dpi or ppi depending on software being used) in increasing. We suggest no
images are supplied under 300 ppi. Example: An image that is 22”x16” @72 ppi
when reduced to 5”x3.5” should be @316 ppi.
- Save the images as .Tiff or .EPS files with no
compression.
- Place the images in your page layout
application at 100% or less. Avoid enlarging images
at this point if possible. This will effectively decrease the resolution and
may effect the quality of your images.
- Click Here for instructions on
creating a PDF of your finished page layout file.
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