May 16 --{{ in need of editing advice }}
Journal Entry: Fri May 16, 2008, 7:30 PM
{{ The band I recently photographed is the amazing Solstar Nation, so go show them some love here: [link] ... You can buy their new album there! }}
Okay, so here's the deal. I usually reduce the size of my photos greatly so that they're easy to work with in photoshop, but I realize now that for printing purposes it's best to keep them as large as possible. How do you edit in large resolution? I seem to have a harder time getting the effect I want with "sharpen" , "blur",etc. They just don't seem to have the same potency. Any advice?
On a different note, next week is the last week of school. Hallelujah! This year has been the shortest (yet also the longest in terms of stress and tiredness) of all my high school years and I only have one more to go. It seems so strange to think that soon I'll be living on my own, fending for myself and not relying on my parent's income for food and the little things. But I suppose that's enough wonderings from me.
Amy and Ng (my two best friends) will be in Guatemala on a mission trip in early June, so I'll probably be doing a bit of photography then. (I'll probably bribe Cody to model for me or something--I might go crazy with the both of them gone.) And my birthday is coming up soon! Hooray. Seventeen. I somehow don't feel that I'm that old. It's an odd feeling.
And finally, thanks to everyone who has been visiting my page and giving me great comments and favs lately. I really really appreciate it! <3 - Mood:
Thanks - Listening to: Solstar Nation -- Go support them!
- Reading: The Kite Runner
- Watching: The Office
Devious Comments
Now it really depends on what file format you are shooting in, but I'm guessing you're just shooting in jpg. If so, the photos you are getting out of your camera will not likely be 300 dpi. To change this, open up that file in photoshop, then go to image -> image size. Because you don't want to actually change the image, but you just want your dpi expressed as something else, uncheck "resample image", and then input 300 into resolution. You will notice your document size change, but not your pixels. This document size will tell you the exact size of print you can make without quality loss.
If you are shooting in a raw file format, you could just edit them in your software and then output them to 300 dpi, (in preferably a tiff format), and get a larger, better-quality print.
If you wish to sharpen an image in photoshop, do NOT use the "sharpen" function. You should actually use the "Unsharp Mask".
The values you will use here highly depend on your file quality, (whether or not it was actually output at 300 dpi). For the jpgs, I would put an amount of about 130%, and a radius of about 1.5. You don't really need to change the threshhold amount past 1. If you wish to shoot raw and output higher quality files, you could bring your amount to 200%, and radius to about 2.
Now these values may or may not add a significant amount of noise to your photos. This shouldn't be an issue at iso 100 or 200, but could be a problem at 400 and 800.
As for blur, I'd say just don't use it at all in photoshop. Blur is best done as you are shooting, with depth of field and whatnot.
Hope that helps! Of course, if you want huge prints, start shooting with film and have them scanned at rediculous resolutions!
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