Image Sizes in iDVD Themes

I know this has been asked before but there doesn't seem to have been a definitive answer.
What size and resolution do images need to be in order to fit into the standard drop zones in iDVD vers 7.
I realise they can be repositioned by holding down cmd when they have been dragged across but I need to know a rough guide on their size and resoultion so they appear correctly (ie not over sized or stretched to fit)
If anyone can put this in a nutshell I would be grateful!
Thanks

There is no set size. Many drop zones use 4:3 size ratio images (the same as used in the slideshows) and others only display part of the image regardless of the size or ratio.

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Hi...if I follow this link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/17.html and the instructions for preparing menu background images. My images still get cropped. Does anyone know the real sizes that will fit perfectly?
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"If you want your images to fit the DVD window exactly, use an image-editing application to crop and resize the images to the following dimensions:
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Hi...I'm frustrated! I launch iDVD and I can access my photos and movies without a problem. However, when I try to create a new project, and I select a theme...the theme does not load so I cannot drop photos in place. Any ideas? HELP!
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Yes you can.....
check the iDvd Help Menu and write this in the search box:
Changing the background image of a dvd menu
Changing the background image of a DVD menu
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You can also drag an image stored elsewhere on your computer using the methods described in step 3.
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Drag a photo from the Photos pane to the menu background, outside any drop zones. When your pointer is over the menu and you see a green circle with a plus sign, you can drop the image.
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Click the Drop Zone button (shown below) to open the drop zone editor. Drag an image from the Photos pane into the menu well in the drop zone editor.
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With your pointer over the menu (and with no button or text object selected), press Command-I to open the Menu Info window. Drag an image from the Photos pane to the background well (the center well, shown below).
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i create an annual dvd with slideshows and videos. this is my 8th one and i've never had this problem before!
i'm using the idvd them "portfolio". when i first started populated the drop zones, everything was fine. the photos i'm using are hi-res and looked great. a few hours into making the video and SOME photos in the drops zones are all blurry and pixelated. i try dropping the photos in again, quitting, restarting, all that good stuff. nothing helped. i then re-exported the photos and put them in a different folder and dropped them into the drop zones. that worked and the photos were back to normal. until i left the main menu screen and some photos became pixelated again. what gives?! it's driving me crazy. i had it perfect and then as soon as i went to burn the dvd, the photos looked bad again.
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I know very little about HTML, CSS and the like but as a photographer I upload gallery webs all the time for clients etc. I generate these in PS CS2 or iView MediaPro and then upload to my server (shared web hosting).
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4. Problem with the page titles. The names you give
to pages determines the URL. Any spaces means you get
the %20 thing and if, like me, you're writing in
French the accents mean that iWeb has to get around
the problem in a different, and not very practical,
way. iWeb creates a random character line as a name,
and uses that as the URL for pages where accents
appear in the title. When the assets and index page
are published those long character names appear on
the index file and folder.
I also think that may lead to compatability issues
with certain servers.
Yes, it is best to avoid spaces and accents and special characters if you can. If you must have them in your navigation links, then don't use the iWeb nav bar. Instead give your pages very short simple names with the Inspector, uncheck the box for "include in nav bar," and just create ordinary hyperlinks for page navigation. I don't know if this will help with IE compatibility, but it can't hurt.

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I have spent the last week editing several photos I took for my cousin of his newborn baby (removing backgrounds/people, editing colours etc etc).
I went to get them printed but the image size is only around 800 x 400 pixles. I checked my original images from my camera and their 4000 x 3000, why are my photos once imported into photoshop suddenly being drastically reduced in size?
Really need some help here as I'm afraid I might have lost a whole weeks work as the images are now too small to get decent prints from.
Thanks,
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The pixel measurements are 3000 x 4000 when taken straight off my camera but for some reason after editing the photo its gone down to 800 x 800, this wouldnt be too much of a problem but its at a density of 300dpi where as the original pictures are at 72dpi.
I've tried my hardest to replicate the problem all afternoon going through the various stages of importing, editing and saving that I normally do and I can't get it to do it again? Really confused as to whats happened, its not the first time though I had the same problem back in 2007 after shooting someones wedding, edited a few of the photos (no cropping) then found the sizes had dropped drastically.
As far as I know I don't have any scripts, actions or image processes set up to do anything on any of my images.
When I open the file I've retouched its gone from a printable measurement of 60 x 40 inches to a printable measurement of 3 x 3 inches, this image has been extensivly cropped (just over half to 3/4) but no where near as small as 3 x 3 printable inches (I'm talking in printable size and not pixles because it can be missleading as saying the size in pixles doest equate to a physical size).
From what I can tell the image has changed size after editing and saving, I only noticed a few days later when I attempted to have the image printed that it had reduced in size so much. Which leads me to believe that the image problem must stem from the way its being saved each time??
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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?
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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.

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