10 March 2008

What dpi Should My Pictures Be?

DPI (dots per inch) is a discription of how large a picture can be reproduced without it becoming pixelated (jagged). The thing to remember is that in order to print your pictures at the highest quality, you need to supply them to us at 300 dpi. If they are smaller than that, they may pixelate and if they are larger than that you are wasting disk space and causing slow uploads and downloads. Remember, if you enlarge a 300 dpi image from 1 inch to 2 inches, you have changed the dpi from 300 to 150. It is generally ok to reduce an image but not to enlarge it.