Editing of Potential Calendar Shots 2016

[F, Calla & Luca]

If you would like critiques and/or help with editing of potential calendar shots post them here. Members often volunteer to help. Please post the original photo unedited if you want help. The helper will probably ask you to email the original photo. Before you ask for help on your photos read the Guidelines for the calendar and keep them in mind when taking photos and when posting here. Remember to take the best quality, ie large file size and highest resolution your camera can take.

http://www.doodlekisses.com/page/calendar-photo-requirements

An easy way to see if your photo meets the minimum calendar requirements is to use Jeffrey's exif viewer.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

You can pop your photo's URL in the proper place and you will get lots of metadata including # of pixels. there is a ton of information but the number of pixels is what you need. Calendar pictures must be 2300 pixels wide by 1800 pixels high.

Example:

Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer 
(How to use)

Note: extra functionality is enabled when you useFirefox or another Gecko-based browser..

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Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer

[CLEAR IMAGE]

Basic Image Information

Target image: https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/93590269?profil... Artist: Picasa Camera: Nikon D750 Lens: AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Shot at 62 mm (shot wide open) Exposure: Auto exposure, Shutter priority AE, 1/3,200 sec, f/4.8, ISO 1000 Flash: Off, Did not fire Focus: AF-A, at 6.7m, with a depth of field of about 3.5m, (from about 1.3mbefore the focus point to about 2.2m after) AF Area Mode: Dynamic Area (9 points) Date: July 15, 2016   2:10:37PM (timezone not specified) (1 month, 9 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes, 31 seconds ago, assuming image timezone of 4 hours behind GMT) Time Zone Offset: -04:00 File: 4,427 × 2,955 JPEG (13.1 megapixels)    11,079,038 bytes (10.6 megabytes) Color Encoding: WARNING: Color space tagged as sRGB, without an embedded color profile. Windows and Mac browsers and apps treat the colors randomly. Images for the web are most widely viewable when in the sRGB color space and with an embedded color profile. See my Introduction to Digital-Image Color Spaces for more information. Apply other tools to this image via ImgOps.com

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

F, Could we have this copied into the tutorials or someplace, so we can find it each year. I know this comes up all the time. Maybe we could put Nancy's note and my Bob's notes together and label it Understanding DPI or something. Just a thought!!!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Good idea. I will do that when I get o my laptop. If I forget remind me.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Who is going to remind me to remind you when I forget? Yes, John found it buried under a pile of clothes on his dresser. Go figure. My t3i is like my long lost friend, but I am going to go back to that stupid 6D :) 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I so wish I understood what in the heck you are talking about or could interpret changing dpi but keeping the pixels or interpolation.  Sigh!  I most definitely do not speak camera.

I understand enough to know you have to set something at a higher dpi - so is that the camera? Is that why when I zoom in on so many of my images they aren't crisp enough? Or is the photographer (me) still to blame?

OOPS.  I see that I need to understand more before I can even ask.  So, nevermind. :-}

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Thank you Nancy!

[F, Calla & Luca]

How strange. I think my jpegs come out at 300 dpi.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Nikon does...Canon does not...from what I read!

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

F - you are right --when you shoot the Image size as Large with a Nikon, the size in pixels is 4,928 x 3,264 -- the resulting print size when printed at 300 dpi is approximately 16.4 x 10.9 inches.  That is, of course, before any kind of cropping.  

[F, Calla & Luca]

READ THROUGH THIS PAGE FOR EXPLANATIONS OF DPI, HOW TO FIX ETC.

[F, Calla & Luca]

READ THROUGH THE PAGE FOR EXPLANATIONS OF DPI, HOW TO AND NOT TO FIX ETC.

[Nancy and Georgia Brown]

F, if you want I can write it up and put it together, and we could add it as a link to refer to.

But I think it is important to get Adina's feedback before making it official.

DPI is so hard to explain to most people. I see all of the confusion, around it, I think it best to make the process as easy as possible. I don't want to see people on this forum telling others that their photo is not acceptable because it's 72 dpi and not 200, when the overall width is 4000 pixels.

[Adina P]

I change the DPI of photos all the time.  As long as they are high quality and large enough, I make them all the same. I probably should leave out the DPI specs entirely because it's been almost never an issue and is confusing.  It's only useful for people in this group.  Most everyone else either is doing it right anyway or doesn't read instructions ;-)