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marklyon · 03-11-2008, 10:29 AM

Like M-i-t-c-h says it depends on who and where they are going to be. Most magazine's I've submitted to like images to be at 300DPI and as a designer I'm happy with 300DPI. When working on grand format and large format it really depends on the printer some people I've worked with scale things to a file size so that there process time ares reduced - for example a graphic at 7000mm X 3500mm they'll want the image at 300 DPI at 25% of it's final finished size or 90DPI at full size. One tip from a designer is that when you take a shot make sure we can bleed it off the page while still keeping the key parts of the image on the page.

Regarding the question about megapixels I'd say anything above 4 is acceptable although I don't think it matters as long as you can fill a full page of a magazine without a loss of quality.

I hope it helps! Cheers!

03-11-2008, 10:29 AM	#4 (permalink)
marklyon New Poster Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5	Like M-i-t-c-h says it depends on who and where they are going to be. Most magazine's I've submitted to like images to be at 300DPI and as a designer I'm happy with 300DPI. When working on grand format and large format it really depends on the printer some people I've worked with scale things to a file size so that there process time ares reduced - for example a graphic at 7000mm X 3500mm they'll want the image at 300 DPI at 25% of it's final finished size or 90DPI at full size. One tip from a designer is that when you take a shot make sure we can bleed it off the page while still keeping the key parts of the image on the page. Regarding the question about megapixels I'd say anything above 4 is acceptable although I don't think it matters as long as you can fill a full page of a magazine without a loss of quality. I hope it helps! Cheers! Last edited by marklyon; 03-11-2008 at 10:32 AM.