Is this photo printable ?

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gerfoto

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Hey guys,

I need to give some photos i took last year and i want to make sure they are not printable.

I just uploaded a photo, 72 dpi, size 472 KB aprox with all EXIF info.

Can you tell me if it is printable professionally ?

Thanks for your help,

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J-see

Senior Member
Everything you upload is printable. The only difference between photos is how much effort it costs to size them.
 
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gerfoto

New member
I am going to send a cd to the requestor but they might used a printing company to print the most beautiful pics. All of them are 72dpi and less than 1MB in size.
 
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Moab Man

Senior Member
In a pinch I had to up-size a photo from a low resolution image, like what you posted, to an 8x10 in print quality. I use Perfect Resize, which is an OUTSTANDING program. There was clearly a difference in print quality. If you put garbage in you can't achieve a really good image. However, starting with a great image I can re-size quite considerably and have done so. To your question, they could be upsized using a program as I mentioned, but the image quality will not really be good. However, in this day of selfies and camera phone photography, what's generated may be acceptable. Your best bet is to simply put "PROOF" across the front of them in a thin font and set it to 50-75% opacity. Put the wording across a detailed area that is not readily or easily cloned or cropped out.

My two cents from experience.
 
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WayneF

Senior Member
gerfoto said:
Hmm really so the whole myth about 72 pixels and file size lower that 1 MB do not exist ?
Click to expand...

Myth is about the correct word. Often people don't seem to understand what 72 dpi means, or how it is used.

You uploaded this image as size 1024 x 666 pixels. Dpi is "pixels per inch" printed on paper. So this image will print 6x4 inches at about 150 dpi, or wallet size at 300 dpi. Same as you could print it.

It shows smaller here until you click it to see lager... We do like to see larger images, but possibly you could be satisfied here by uploading a smaller size (offering less printing opportunities). The forum seems not to show it larger than about 665x435 pixels (until we click it to see full size). So you could simply upload that smaller size, and forbid clicking enlargement (and the point, downloading it only gets the smaller image you uploaded). That would limit printing capabilities, to about wallet size.

72 dpi has absolutely no meaning at all, not on any video monitor screen. Video systems could not care less what the dpi number is (dpi is just for printing on paper - and it can be changed at will - like you changed it to be 72).

Digital image size is dimensioned in pixels. If actually printing at 72 dpi, your image will print 14x9 inches ( 1066 pixels / 72 dpi = 1066/72 = 14.8 inches on paper, but the prinnt quality won't be good at 72 dpi). But of course, we can simply change the 72 dpi in any photo editor to be 150 dpi (halfway decent quality) or 300 dpi (as good as it gets)... at will, but at smaller printed size. Image size in pixels determines the size it will print. dpi is "so many pixels per inch", and we can set any dpi value we choose. But a small image at so-many dpi will print smaller than a large image can allow.
 
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