Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
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| What size image for 16x20 poster?
I used Shape Collage to make a collage of our Disney World vacation photos in the shape of Mickey Mouse. I figured that I would have WinkFlash print it poster-sized and hang it up. The fact that WinkFlash is currently running a 40% off sale on posters just makes it important that I get this done quickly.
The original collage image is 11753 x 14737 and is 19.2MB. I plan on padding some of the image and adding some text to it, but my image editor is choking on the image's size.
I'd get a 16 x 20 poster (15.75 x 19.75 image size). What resolution/image size should I have for a poster that large? I'm guessing that 11753 x 14737 is overkill and should be shrunk down, but I'd like to figure out just how much.
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Dream Killer
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1 edit | When I print, I don't adjust resolution, I adjust DPI instead. For that resolution, a 16"x20" would be 734.5 DPI. |
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Chuck22
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Since posters are not viewed a closely as is a snapshot, I think the minimum for a decent acceptable image is 180 ppi. I have done a 16x20 poster at 200 ppi and it turned out quite well. Another 16 x 20 I had done from a digital rendering at 360 ppi (5760 x 7200 pixels) was excellent.
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McFly
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I always go with 300dpi when printing. So for a 16x20 poster @300dpi that would be 4800x6000
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