Is there any quick and dirty way to determine what something will look like
Hi,
Is there any way (rule of thumb) to determine what something will look like when printed.
for example.
I am doing a composite (hope this is the right word). It will have some people sitting at a table and I want to have another layer with another picture behind it.
I plan for the output to be fairly small (print size), say 4 x 5 or whatever.
Now, if I go to the internet and google (or mamma.com) and search for images (large) and it comes back to me, I will see pictures that are (for example) 800 x 526 pixels 367 kb, or 940 x 480 pixels 166 kb.
I would have to assume the 367 kb will print at better resolution, but if i liked the 166 kb picture better, is there a quick and dirty way to determine if it would print better (say 250 or 300 dpi or whatever) or not?
So, bottome line,
Assume my output picture will be 4 x 5 (and I want 300dpi (or is it ppi)
How do quickly look at google results and determing if they will print ok?
Bob
The closest to a one click fix in photoshop cs-cs5 is
Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlight or opening the
image through camera raw and using the recovery slider.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-765da.h tml
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