montage

[john]

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I want to put together a montage of various photos and take it some where to
print it as A3. What would be a good app to use (psp?) and how big should I
expect the file to be?

John

 

[Marvin]

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John wrote:
> I want to put together a montage of various photos and take it some where to
> print it as A3. What would be a good app to use (psp?) and how big should I
> expect the file to be?
>
> John
>
>
I find it easier to do this job in a page-layout program, such as Microsoft Publisher.
Position the photos as you want them, then link them together. Cut and paste into an
image-editing program, and save as a .jpg file.

 

[Guest]

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"John" <me@home.cmo> wrote in message
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>I want to put together a montage of various photos and take it some where
>to print it as A3. What would be a good app to use (psp?) and how big
>should I expect the file to be?
>
> John
There are several good Photo editors. Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements 2 or
Elements 3, and Paint Shop Pro.
There is a learning curve to do what you want to do with any of the Photo
Editors.

File size depends on the file format and the size of the final image.

An A3 print at 300 DPI would require a 4960 x 3507 pixel image.
Assume no margins. Printer margins will make the printed area smaller.

From http://www.scantips.com/calc.html
4960x3507 pixels will print 16.54 x 11.69 inches (420.1 x 297.0 mm)
at a MAXIMUM of 300 pixels per inch (118 pixels per cm)
(Maximum meaning any cropping lowers printing resolution)
4960 pixels / 300 ppi = 16.54 inches
3507 pixels / 300 ppi = 11.69 inches


This 4960 x 3507 pixel image size is 17.39 million pixels, with Aspect Ratio
1.41 : 1

The image size in memory is: (see explanation of size and megabytes)
99.533 MB if 48 bit RGB
66.356 MB if 32 bit CMYK
49.767 MB if 24 bit RGB (most common)
33.178 MB if 16 bit GrayScale
16.589 MB if 8 bit GrayScale
2.074 MB if 1 bit Line Art

The above values are about what a uncompressed TIFF file would be.

JPEG would be much smaller (around 10%-50% of the file sizes) JPEG file size
depends on the amount of compression and the image content.

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[john]

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gulp... thanks for all the info
"CSM1" <nomoremail@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> "John" <me@home.cmo> wrote in message
> news:VJnae.4886$vU4.1901@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
>>I want to put together a montage of various photos and take it some where
>>to print it as A3. What would be a good app to use (psp?) and how big
>>should I expect the file to be?
>>
>> John
> There are several good Photo editors. Photoshop CS, Photoshop Elements 2
> or Elements 3, and Paint Shop Pro.
> There is a learning curve to do what you want to do with any of the Photo
> Editors.
>
> File size depends on the file format and the size of the final image.
>
> An A3 print at 300 DPI would require a 4960 x 3507 pixel image.
> Assume no margins. Printer margins will make the printed area smaller.
>
> From http://www.scantips.com/calc.html
> 4960x3507 pixels will print 16.54 x 11.69 inches (420.1 x 297.0 mm)
> at a MAXIMUM of 300 pixels per inch (118 pixels per cm)
> (Maximum meaning any cropping lowers printing resolution)
> 4960 pixels / 300 ppi = 16.54 inches
> 3507 pixels / 300 ppi = 11.69 inches
>
>
> This 4960 x 3507 pixel image size is 17.39 million pixels, with Aspect
> Ratio 1.41 : 1
>
> The image size in memory is: (see explanation of size and megabytes)
> 99.533 MB if 48 bit RGB
> 66.356 MB if 32 bit CMYK
> 49.767 MB if 24 bit RGB (most common)
> 33.178 MB if 16 bit GrayScale
> 16.589 MB if 8 bit GrayScale
> 2.074 MB if 1 bit Line Art
>
> The above values are about what a uncompressed TIFF file would be.
>
> JPEG would be much smaller (around 10%-50% of the file sizes) JPEG file
> size depends on the amount of compression and the image content.
>
> --
> CSM1
> http://www.carlmcmillan.com
> --
>
>

 

[Guest]

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CSMs figures assume 300 dpi quality - at A3, you will probably get away
with 200 dpi quality, or even 100 - depends on how much close
inspection is likely!

Talk to the folk who will print it, because they may only accept some
formats. I agree that Publisher would make the process a little
easier, but your printer may not be able to use pub files.