Once you resize your image to your liking, click okay and save the file. The dimensions for your maximum Width and Height at 300 DPI will appear automatically. Uncheck the “Resample Image” checkbox and set your Resolution to 300 pixels/inch. Once all the pictures have been selected, right-click on any of them and select Print. When youve opened the folder, select the pictures you wish to print. (For our purposes we can treat pixels/inch and DPI as one and the same.) First of all, open the folder where the pictures you wish to print on a single page are located. (You should now see adjustable cells for Width, Height, and Resolution show up.)Ĭhoose "inches" for Width and Height and "pixels/inch" for Resolution. Select "Adjust Size" in the "Tools" dropdown menu. The stock or default profiles for your printer model that. They create separate profiles based on various combinations of ink and paperfactors that affect the appearance of the printed material.
(To open multiple images, highlight them all, right click, and click "open.") Giclee is a term that was invented to describe the process of high quality inkjet printing for art reproduction purposes, without using the term inkjet, since it makes people think of their desktop printers at home and, in theory, giclee printing should be much more. Color and print professionals use files that are specific to each device on the system and contain information about how that device produces color.
(If you have Photoshop or other similar photo editing software, we'll get into some additional things you can do later in this post.) Tuning DPI will also show you the largest size at which you can keep the original quality of your photo.ĭouble-click your file to open it in preview.
Your computer's native photo editing tools are generally all you need to adjust DPI and get your photo ready for print.