1600x1200 - good enough for 8x10 prints?

[slackerinabox]

Just curious.. Thanks!

 

[KingNothing]

If 160 dpi is good enough then that's fine.

 

[IcemanJer]

that'll only get you 150 dpi on the 8" direction, and 160 dpi on the 10" direction. For better quality you should be looking at 300 dpi for printing, e.g. 3000 x 2400).

 

[Piano Man]

I'm an advocate of the 300 dpi minimum. But that's just me.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

No. It will be pixelated.

 

[UNCjigga]

1600x1200 is ~ 2 megapixels...correct? They say 2 megapixel pics from a digital camera are good up to 5x7, 3 megapixels are okay for 8x10 (though 4 megapixels is recommended for 8x10 and larger.)

 

[vegetation]

I have had 8x10 prints through Walmart made using my 2 megapixel Nikon 950. It's fine, no pixelation from what I can tell. If you had grainy images due to poor lighting then I suppose it would only amplify the effect though.

 

[Jugernot]

As others have said, it'll work, but it won't look great.

Joe

 

[Miramonti]

depends if its a tiff or a compressed jpeg, and if it was done with an optical zoom or digital zoom. (right?)

 

[0roo0roo]

hell no. and after its cropped for 8x10 theres even less pixels to go around. 3mpix min, 4 megapix better.

 

[BamBam215]

i've printed 1600x1200 on an 8x10 before. no problem at all. these guys must have super eagle eyes

 

[tcsenter]

Ok, I'm confused.

There is display resolution and print resolution.

When I download my (Canon A40) 1600x1200 images to my computer and open them with Paint Shop Pro 7, without modifying them in any way, then look at the image properties, Paint Shop Pro always says the resolution of the image is 72 PPI. Is this the default display resolution?

Because when I right click on the image file in Explorer and look under 'Image Summary', it shows the dimensions to be 1600x1200 @ 300DPI for both horizontal and vertical resolution, which I presume is the print resolution?

Anyone have a link to a good 'Idiot's Guide to Image Resolution' that will help clarify this stuff for me? I remember reading about all this stuff a few years ago, and I think I even understood it for a couple months.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Ok, I'm confused.

There is display resolution and print resolution.

When I download my (Canon A40) 1600x1200 images to my computer and open them with Paint Shop Pro 7, without modifying them in any way, then look at the image properties, Paint Shop Pro always says the resolution of the image is 72 PPI. Is this the default display resolution?

Because when I right click on the image file in Explorer and look under 'Image Summary', it shows the dimensions to be 1600x1200 @ 300DPI for both horizontal and vertical resolution, which I presume is the print resolution?

Anyone have a link to a good 'Idiot's Guide to Image Resolution' that will help clarify this stuff for me? I remember reading about all this stuff a few years ago, and I think I even understood it for a couple months.

I don't think that 72ppi number means anything.

 

[speg]

Isn't it just simple math? You have 1600 pixels horzontallay. And your stretching them out over 10 inches. That means you'll have 160dpi horizontally. Do the same thing vertically, 1200/8= 150 dpi. Each pixel being a dot... I think that's how it works

( Im not sure how you get to one DPI, as this give you different numbers for both horizontally and vertically, maybe it's in a square each? That would give us 24000 though sooo that doesn't fit with the 300 dpi the other guys were talking about )


Is you spread a 1600x1200 on a 5 by 7. You would have 228 dpi ( hor ) and 240 dpi ( vert ) which will I assume give you a better image.


( Note: I could be totally wrong )

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: tcsenter
Ok, I'm confused.

There is display resolution and print resolution.

When I download my (Canon A40) 1600x1200 images to my computer and open them with Paint Shop Pro 7, without modifying them in any way, then look at the image properties, Paint Shop Pro always says the resolution of the image is 72 PPI. Is this the default display resolution?

Because when I right click on the image file in Explorer and look under 'Image Summary', it shows the dimensions to be 1600x1200 @ 300DPI for both horizontal and vertical resolution, which I presume is the print resolution?

Anyone have a link to a good 'Idiot's Guide to Image Resolution' that will help clarify this stuff for me? I remember reading about all this stuff a few years ago, and I think I even understood it for a couple months.

I don't think that 72ppi number means anything.

its probably the pixels per inch on your monitor.