High Resolution Photos - Fort Worth Photos for Print
All images "For Print" meet the following specifications:
- 300 dots per inch
- .jpg format
- A minimum dimension of 8 inches
(This can be height or width, which ever is smallest)
Should I purchase images for the Web or for Print?
For Print:
If you are printing brochures, advertisements, business cards, etc. on any
kind of solid material (i.e., not the Internet), your photos should be at
least
300 dpi (dots per inch.). Low resolution images used on the Internet are not
appropriate for print use. They will appear fuzzy and lack a professional
image
quality. The dimensions of printed material is measured in inches, not pixels
as is done in Web design. You will know exactly the dimensions of your printed
product and your final product will always be the same for everyone.
For the Web:
The maximum resolution for photos and images on the Internet is 72 dpi (dots
per inch). This is considered "low resolution". Because one of the
objects of good website design is to create fast loading pages, it is best to
use low resolution photos in your website.
The dimensions of a website are measured in pixels, not inches. Afterall, how
many inches wide is a webpage? That would depend on the individual viewing
preferences set by each individual user on his/her computer. Most people using
the Internet
today have their screen reslution setting set to 800 x 600 pixels or larger.
For this reason, when you design your website, you should make your webpages
no
wider
than 775 pixels. This will enable your viewers to see the complete width of
your webpages without having to scroll right, a big no-no in web design.
Hints for using images in your website.
Do: Resize your image with an
image editing program before you insert it into your webpage.
Do not: Insert an image into
your webpage and then resize it with the HTML or with your web editing software.
Why? If you resize your image using HTML or your software, you
will distort the quality of the image. If you make it smaller than the original
image, the clarity of the image will be compromised. If you resize the image
to be larger than the original image, it will pixelate and become fuzzy.
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