File size and resolution.

Hello,
I have been attempting to create PDF files using Acrobat (both 9.5.5 and 10.1.9) but have run into some questions for which I haven't found clear answers.
I started with pages scanned at 300 dpi and saved as TIFF files. Following that I have tried to bring these into Acrobat using various methods. I have imported them as TIFF and have also compressed them first in Photoshop (reduced resolution to 200 dpi and used 'Saved As' and 'Save for Web') and saved files as JPEG. In all instances I have found a reasonable reduction in the file resolution. For instance, one document had pages saved as TIFF files with a resolution of 1800 x 2700 dpi but the resolution was reduced to only 432 x 648 once it was saved as a PDF file (resolution is shown by the 'Get Info' command in OS X).
Considering the entire page is treated as a huge image file (whether TIFF or JPEG) since it is a scan, how can I control the resolution when creating PDFs so that it doesn't get reduced this much ? I wish to create a PDF that can be viewed on screen and it is not too big to be downloaded by those with slow Internet connections, but at the same time has enough quality to be printed and produce good quality documents.
Thank you in advance.

Hi Bill and thank you for your answer.
I dragged the first TIFF file onto the Acrobat icon which opened it and then dragged the others onto my acrobat screen and positioned them in proper sequence. After that I used the 'Save As' command so that the file would be saved without any type of compression or optimization (I am not sure if I did this right and if this is how Acrobat works). After that I looked at the file using Apple's OS X 'Get Info' command and the pop window with information on the file showed a file size of 432 x 648. How did this file go from a resolution of 300 dpi or a size of 1800 x 2700 pixels to just 432 x 648 ? I am not understanding how Acrobat works and how it processes PDF files.
Considering the files had 300 dpi and the optimizer had a downsampling of 150 dpi (before I changed it) and 200 dpi (after I changed it) the file size should have changed to 900 x 1350 pixels (at 150 dpi) and/or 1200 x 1800 pixels (at 200 dpi). No ?
Two more questions:
1. I don't know how exactly to use the preflight function you mentioned. How does it work ?
2. When you say I should export images to check their resolution, since my pages were scanned and saved as 300 dpi TIFF files wouldn't an entire page be considered as an image file ? Wouldn't the export command see the entire page as an image ?
Can you help me understand this ? I am confused.
Thank you in advance,
Joe.

Similar Messages

Acceptable File Size and Resolution for Still Photos in Keyframe Motion

Hello Hello
I know that FCE HD (as other Video Editors), will automatically fit a still photo's size to it's default capability of 720 x 480 Correct?
Well, in regard to making the best possible ZOOMS, and Pans from Still Photos, is it neccessary to re-size all your photos (from an external editor like photoshop), to a specfic size?
According to an older book for FCE, it sez that actually photos re-sized to 720x534 with a resolution of 72 are best. *The proper proportion for NTSC.
And I noticed that when I inserted larger JPG still sizes (like about a meg), on the FCE timline, and when applying Panning, or Zooms, some of the rendered images with motion didn't pan or zoom smoothly.
Is that because those file sizes were TOO large?
Well I have soooo many stills that need to be imported into this particular project that it would be a lot easier for me to just generally reduce these stills (by percentage).
And is the magic resolution amount supposed to be 72?
Because if that's the case I can re-size all my photos to 72, and try to keep the file sizes down to say 300 KB's or so.
Sound like a plan?

Thank you guys
"basically, you should try to make your images large enough so they never have to be scaled beyond 100% in the motion tab in fcp."
Actually as I mentioned some of these file sizes are very large. About 800-900 KB's - and what as a result, what I've noticed is that I actually had to DECREASE the viewing area in both the Browser Window, and the Canvas Winbow just to be able to see the whole image.
Ok - so the 72 DPI is not as important as the dimensions of the photo. But as I said I have soooooo many of these that it would take me forever to manually re-size them all not to mention the fact that re-sizing some of them (odd shapes),would throw the images out of balance.
So again I ask - if there is NO motion applied to the photo, file sizes of about 200 to 350 KB's appear just beautifully ....
BUT
If I need to PAN or ZOOM, is it ok to laod a 1 MEG sized JPG onto the timeline and start working with Keyframe?????
In fact in some cases I'm actually using these larger file JPS's (1 meg or more), so that they TOTALLLY fit the canvas window (cropping them by enlargment)
*With some clipping of the original image of course ...
Why do I do this?
So that you don't see the usual border with horizontal images, or vertical images - know what I mean?
Thanx

Photo File Size and Resolution

In the process of creating a book using iPhoto appeared in the corner. The warning said that the photo was of low resolution. I have scanned a lot of my slides, and the files are 65 Mb, which is too big, and the ones with the warning were around 200 Kb. My question is to get the best resolution (while creating a book) what size file should I import into iPhoto?

frevy,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
As you discovered,the low resolution warning hopefully prevents insertion of low quality pictures in a book.
Here is an Apple kb article which lists minimum resolutions for different size pages, along with helpful info:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61025
Hope it helps,
Scott
MacBook Pro,MacBook ,Powerbook G4 1.33 14,,isight Mac OS X (10.4.9) Canon D20,ipod 30 GB,Adobe Photoshop

Check image details like resolution, dimensions, color mode, file format, file size and file name

I have 1000 images in a folder, i want to check their details like resolution, dimensions, color mode, file format, file size and file name into excel with nice user interface.
Pls help me, m just learning ABCD in VB.

The code in the file at the link below might give you a starting point. Firstly it gives you the opportunity to list all of the properties of a file type and then you can select the properties that you want and the second utility gives you the
opportunity to list the selected properties for all files in a selected folder.
Download and extract the file and open the file in Excel.
Click the first button List Meta Data for One File (Run first)
Navigate to and Select any ONE individual photo file. (Photo files because that is what you indicated you are working with.)
You will be presented with a list of the available properties for the file. Where the Item value is blank, that property is not recorded for the particular file. Different file types have different properties and it is also dependent on how the file
was created but generally if all of the files come from the same source then the same properties are recorded for all files from that source.
Now insert a Y in column D for all of the required properties. (Don't select any with the Item value blank)
Click the second button List Selected Meta Data for all Files in a Folder (Run after selecting the required properties).
Next select a folder where the files reside. (You might need to back up to the folder if dialog is blank because it will not show individual files because the code only allows Folders.)
You will be presented with a report listing all of the selected properties for all of the files in the selected folder.
The user interface is not that great but you can improve on that if you want to with a Userform as you get to know VBA a little better.
Download the file from here.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C2A7A5912D3D17B0!273&authkey=!ANf8R0Xf0-h3wJ8&ithint=file%2czip
Regards, OssieMac

Original Size and Resolution (How do I access that file)

If you go to your photo album and click 'veiw larger image' you receive this message:
Note: This picture may be displayed smaller than the actual picture size. The original uploaded image size and resolution are preserved in your account.
The same question was posted with a solution to send the photo to your e-mail account. The does not resolve my problem. I should be able to access the original size and resolution here, online, in my account.

You should be able to sign in to your account with Adobe to retrieve the serial number. Then download version 7 from here:
Download Photoshop Elements products | 9, 8, 7
Worst case option:
Download the trial version of Photoshop Elements 13:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 Direct Download Links, Premiere too | ProDesignTools
and save it as a tiff or jpeg and you can open it with any photo viewer.
You may even find that you want to buy the latest version.

I need to export a photo at around 1meg file size,and dont seem to be able to do it in the presets can anyone help please ,I shoot on a canon 5d

I need to export a photo at around 1meg file size,and dont seem to be able to do it in the presets can anyone help please ,I shoot on a canon 5d

I believe Frank is referring to the end use (e.g., for print or on-screen use).
Until he returns, I can tell you that I ran a quick test using an image from the Aperture 3 training book library which was as follows:
Camera = Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Master resolution = 5616 x 3744 (21 MP)
I was able to export to a JPEG with end file size of 1 MB as follows:
Export Presets drop-down > select 'Edit' option
Selected preset name 'JPEG - 50% of Original Size' > change percentage value to 40% > change DPI value to '300' > click OK to set as current default > Export version to desktop.
The exported JPEG has a resolution of 2246 x 1498 and appears on screen to have the same image quality of the original in Aperture.
Note - I did not change the default Image Quality slider in the Export Preset dialog (which left it at 10).
Basically, you will need to play around with the settings until you find the appropriate values to arrive at an image version you want.

Two step import, downsizing image file sizes and/or keeping copies?

hi all,
leonie was kind enough on another thread to suggest a two step import from the iphone in order to make sure that there is no accidental deletion or data loss. my understanding (i'm repeating it here myself in case i am misunderstanding) is that this routine involves 1. importing images into Aperture via the conventional import method and then 2. backing up to iTunes (to save the images) and 3. verifying (visually i think) that the images are in the Aperture database and then if so allow Aperture to delete all the images from the iPhone.
this seems to make sense to me but i realized i had a couple of questions about general "photo hygiene" related to this kind of thing.
1. is there some way to downsize file size after images are imported into Aperture? i take a ton of photos and only some are important to keep at a high resolution and i feel like i am stuck between having a huge Aperture database cluttered with lots of photos at high resolution /or/ turning down the file size and finding that i have an important image that is at a low resolution because i forgot to turn up the file size (i think these are in settings somewhere in my phone) before i took the photo or only realized later that it was important to have this image at higher resolution. if i could downsize while thinking about it in Aperture this seems like it would work.
2. does anyone keep an external copy of their images outside of the Aperture database?
thanks

hi terence,
thank you.
so can i ask if anyone is using an iphone and/or what setting(s) and/or resolution folks are using?
i guess i have a bit of a dilemma in that i take a ton of photos and i only use one at a high resolution while the others can be something as insignificant as a visual note to myself. and it kind of kills me that these could be 1.2 MB in that i have a lot of them. i sort of wish there was a way to downsample imagery since a lot of these are not so important.
anyway. yeah i guess i was wondering if folks do a referenced library or keep an extra copy as a backup (i guess i am 'embedding' images in the library but i forget what i call this in aperture) - and i have started to wonder if there is some utility to doing a referenced library or keeping a backup but this seems like overkill while at the same time a referenced library would allow me the ability to downsample images from what i can tell but i am just guessing here since i haven't tried this method.
thanks.

Logging software - shrinking file size and keeping timecode

I recently found and downloaded the trial version of InqScribe Transcription Software (http://www.inqscribe.com/index.html).
It seems pretty neat. You can open up and video file in the program and it read the timecode from the file and inserts it into transcript as your typing. It says it can open ANY type of video that Quicktime can view.
Here's my dilemma - I want my clients and producer to use this program to log footage on their PCs out and about. I"m shooting with the Sony NX5 and transcoding to Pro Res LT. Obviously these files are HUGE.
I'd like to find a way that I can shrink the file sizes and keep the original timecode. I thought h.264 would be best. I can also shrink the resolution from 1920x1080 down to something much smaller.
I'm looking for an end product that is compatible with PCs and Macs, around 500mbs or less, and has the original TC.

Resize to 480x270. The data rate before compression will be 1/16 of the 1920x 1080 image. Add H.264 Quicktime compression and you'll have a small file. Verify with the company that it can read h.264 files.
When you do the conversion use Compressor and turn off Frame Controls when you do the resizing.The encoding will go much faster.
x

PSE 4 -Best Size and Resolution for Burning to a DVD?

I would like to burn a slideshow that is playable on most DVD-players from about 80 RAW files. I plan to "Author" (correct term?) it with Roxio's Easy Media Creator which, I believe, makes an MPEG-4.
Correct me, but I beleive PS Elements 4.0 only makes PDFs or WMV slidehsows. So I have to burn the DVD using another utility.
To what image size and resolution should I reduce my RAW files, so that they can be shown on standard (not HD) television sets?

Hi Julie: Look here:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/video/2002.shtml
That should help.
……I'm using iMovie HD but I'm on a G4 so don't have HD capabilites. Not sure if that matters. ………
No, that doesn't matter at all.

The combination of artwork size and resolution exceeds the maximum that can be rasterized.

hi there, im rajesh M S Aaryan, Creative agent @ SmartDesignstudios. which i founded.
here is my Solution for above Question
Created File by giving 48 Inches (Hieght) * 240 inches (width) in Illustrator after Complete design, i just tried Export it to .Tif Format but error Occurred "the combination of artwork size and resolution exceeds the maximum that can be rasterized".
Answer: Save the file as EPS format and open in Photoshop do no alter anything finally save as .Tif Format
this actually works

yes we can create
try to Export into .tiff format"
you'll get this error
the combination of artwork size and resolution exceeds the maximum that can be rasterized.

How to find the size and resolution option in the aspect ratio drop down menu for the crop tool

while looking through certain tutorials on the new crop system i came across many that referenced the above mentioned size and resolution option in the access ratio drop down menu. They all mention a dialog box which then appears which looks really useful, however my version doesnt have this option. any help would be appreciated.

Trevor.Dennis wrote:
John, are there already differences? I thought 13.1 was mainly about retina display support, but I guess there would also be other fixes released while they were at it.
Yes, definitely already differences. I sympathize with Photoshop instructors (online and offline).
The headline change was Retina support but that was also made available to non-Cloud versions.
Other Cloud-only changes in 13.1 are listed here
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new.html
http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/news/cs6_1/
Non-Cloud CS6 users have been very vocal and disgruntled about some of these changes.

Image size and resolution question.

Is an image at W 48.667 x H 32.444 inches at 72 res the same as an image that I could convert in photoshop to 300 res and then the with "Resample Image" clicked off would be W 11.68 x H 7.78 at 300 res for printing purposes? I'm asking this questions because after exporting 200 images from Lightroom 1.4, putting them into an wedding album I realized the images were not at 300 res but the first size listed above. I'm trying not to have to rebatch and have to put them back into the album. I sent the question to NAPP and got this back"
"If you do the math you'll see that the answer is "no."
48x72=3456 pixels; 32x72=2304 pixels
11.68x300=3504 pixels; 7.78x300=2334 pixels."
I did the math and it comes up to 5760 vs 5830. Pretty darn close. So would an image printed out with both settings print the about the same quality or am I missing something?
Thanks
Bob

Bob's question is a common one. And one of the first that most of us struggled to understand. Let's see if I can shed some light to help clarify the matter.
o The image starts out with a given number of pixels from the camera, scanner, or whatever was its source. The resolution only matters when it comes time to print the image.
72 dpi was once a common resolution for displaying on a computer monitor. Today 90 dpi is more common monitor resolution.
o Let's assume that the image is 3504 x 2336 pixels (which I got from his size @ 72 dpi).
o In "image size", if you do _not_ have 'resample image' checked, all you are doing is _rescaling the image. The image resolution is whatever you enter ...
For example, if you enter 360 dpi -- the native printing resolution of many Epson printers -- you get a print size of 9.733 x 6.489 inches
o Let's say you want to print this image at 360 dpi in portrait on 13 x 19 inch paper with a one inch border on the sides. That would make the short dimension of the image 11 inches and the long would work out to 16.5.
To do that you need to _resample_ the image to change the size. More pixels will be made. The resolution stays at 360 dpi. So check the 'resample image' box.
After resampling to get the print size and resolution you want, the pixel dimension goes to 5960 x 3960 (from 3504 x 2336). Those new pixels came at a price, but that is a matter for another thread and a lot of personal bias.
Hope that helped.
P.S. The answer to your question, Bob, is yes. With resample off in PhotoShop, your original images should have gone to 11.68 x 7.787 inches @300 dpi.
In looking at the rest of your original post, it seems that the export didn't work the way that you wanted. Do I read right that the images turned out to be 11.68 x 7.787 @ 72 dpi? Can't help with that as I don't do Lightroom.

How do you change the image size and resolution in photoshop everytime I change the width the height changes my measurements will not stay

Can someone assist me with changing image size and resolution. each time I change the width the height changes and vice/versa?

There's a chain link between width and height. The point is to keep the aspect ratio the same, otherwise your picture would get stretched.
You click on the chain-link to shut that off and you can adjust width and height separately.
Also could you give us your version of Photoshop, what OS you are running it on (Windows 7 for example) and what exactly you want to do with your document?
Resolution is the print term for how many pixels will be printed on an inch of paper. It doesn't apply if your image is intended for screen viewing.
Gene

Best Size and Resolution to Scan Photos?

Hi, I need to create a photo slide show in iMovie. I would do it iPhoto but I need to able to time my music and add intermittent titles so I guess I'll need to use iMovie. I'm very new to iMovie and actually am used to editing on Avid and Media 100 (which I no longer have access to) so I'm a little scared! So, my question is - when I scan my photos what is the best size and resolution to scan them at for the best final results? It will be viewed on a TV from a DVD. Any other tips for a newbie also appreciated. Thanks so much! -Julie
p.s. I'm using iMovie HD but I'm on a G4 so don't have HD capabilites. Not sure if that matters.

Hi Julie: Look here:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/video/2002.shtml
That should help.
……I'm using iMovie HD but I'm on a G4 so don't have HD capabilites. Not sure if that matters. ………
No, that doesn't matter at all.

Get Total DB size , Total DB free space , Total Data & Log File Sizes and Total Data & Log File free Sizes from a list of server

how to get SQL server Total DB size , Total DB free space , Total Data & Log File Sizes and Total Data & Log File free Sizes from a list of server

Hi Shivanq,
To get a list of databases, their sizes and the space available in each on the local SQL instance.
dir SQLSERVER:\SQL\localhost\default\databases | Select Name, Size, SpaceAvailable | ft -auto
This article is also helpful for you to get DB and Log File size information:
Checking Database Space With PowerShell
I hope this helps.

File size and resolution.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for