>dimensions >resolution >dpi >ppi >pixels >inches

i feel you friend but also you forgot aspect ratio, interlaced vs. progressive, and crop ratios

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>sharpness

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>>3094370
>>3094369
fuck that's beautiful
something isi would say, what's the book? post more snippets

>>3094371
quiet down, beta orbiter-kun

how is it confusing to you

>>3094360
If you have a modern camera, then you have enough resolution for pretty much everything. At the very least for all household uses.

Figure out what you want to do, then see if you have the resolution for 300 dpi, if not go with 200 dpi (which is still fine for almost everything.)

It's not that hard, even if you don't want to brush up on basic terminology.

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>>3094373
It just makes me very stressed all day trying to achieve the best possible version of my photos.
Also the fact that every medium has different needs.
Monitors need different photo editing for greatness, printing needs other things, this site needs this, that site needs other things, lol color calibration
Enjoy looking at different versions of your stuff depending on the device, phone, tablet, monitor XD

I am getting restless and distressed..

>>3094380
>yfw lightroom doesn't even have a dpi option

I leave it at default 240ppi. I will get into printing, not just instagram posting..

>>3094382
here's what you need to know

DPI: 72dpi is perfectly fine for web 300 for printing. If you go into photoshop and adjust your sizing you can swap it between pixels and inches interchangeably to see what you could print to. So essentially if you set 300 dpi on your 16mp dslr photo change the sizing from pixels to inches and that's the largest you can go without having to upscale a little which is fine. Personally I've seen that 16mp is fine for a 16x20 depending on whats getting printed

When you're editing your photos try to avoid doing sharpening until you're exporting and select either sharpen for web or sharpen for what paper you'll be printing with

As for colors just get an ips panel and a hardware calibration tool and try looking at an image on your phone or laptop screen as well to see if anything stands out as being off to you

Try to keep all your crops to certain aspect ratios. If you shoot with a dslr or something just stick to 2:3 and you'll be able to print 4x6, 8x12, 10x15, 16x24, etc without having to make any custom sizing

There's my hot tips and stop stressing about it because its literally the easiest part

>>3094386
thanx doggo
But what about Lightroom's ppi? The default is 240ppi so I left it there. Google also said it is a good choice.

>>3094391
I just leave it on 300 all the time. I work at a print shop and if its less they just size it up to 300 anyway

There's no reason not to just keep it at 300

>monitor isn't calibrated
>1366 x 768

>>3094386
any calibration tools you would recommend?

>>3094395
Datacolor Spyder or X-rite Colormunki

I prefer Spyder

>>3094395
rent or no tools. Only an absolute fucktard pays $100+ for a toy that very slightly tweaks a color on your monitor that won't look the same on any customer monitors anyway.

mfw people are discussing meta-data in here. ppi/dpi/aspect/crop/etc., all these are meta-information which does not affect the picture AT ALL. an image file is not more than: (container(codec(channels(bit depth|resolution)))). everything else is not more relevant than GPS data.

>>3094397
is there a difference between the 4 and 5 and pro and express version?
>>3094404
I don't have customers

>>3094410
>is there a difference between the 4 and 5 and pro and express version?

you'll be fine with express 4 desu

>>3094423
thanks

>>3094360
>you're taking photos on assignment
>you're editing them up for submission
>you ask "what resolution should the final images be?"
>they reply "300dpi"
>mfw

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>>3094493

>>3094386
>72dpi is perfectly fine for web
Dpi doesn't matter at all when it comes to web. It's up to the screen it's viewed at. Different screens with different sizes and resolutions will give you diffferent dpis. The whole 72 dpi meme comes from back in the days when screens had lower resolution. Nowadays there are phones with 800 dpi res. However, you don't have to worry about that at all. For digital viewing, the only important thing is the pixel resolution. Dpi is only for printing, and even then it's just a number that you can change later. 300 dpi is good for smaller images. If the image is bigger than A3, you rarely need 300 dpi as you're less likely to view it from a close distance.

>inches
>not metric
kek

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>>3094371
https://www.amazon.com/Henri-Cartier-Bresson-Decisive-Cartier-Bresson/dp/3869307889

>>3094493
huge prints assignment?

none of my last works on assignment asked for 300dpi files.. max full res on 72dpi

>>3094659
The assignment was for the web. The problem is that DPI is not a measurement of dimensions.

>>3094369
>>3094370
>Some asshole put it in a book so it's somehow more relevant

>>3094404
>thinking $100 isn't a thoughtless, snap purchase for most people that don't live in 3rd world countries.

Fuck, I've spent more on food over the past 48 hours. You're complaining about a device that will easily last 5 years.

>but customers have shit monitors.

Whu. Whu... whut? Are you simple? You think you should be sending out photos that you edit by eye using a monitor showing incorrect colors? I mean if professional suicide is your main objective, go ahead.

>standard resolution unit is still dot peer fucking inches
>per inches
>2017

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>>3095641
>Some asshole