Size of photo to import

I need to create a document in Photoshop that I can import into FCE. My project is in 16x9 format. What size (inch x inch) should I make my document so that nothing will be cutoff, and it wont need to be stretched or anything that will cause pixelation or any loss of quality. Thanks
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If I use 2x3 x 75 DPI the picture does not take up the whole screen. If I use an 8x10 it takes up too much memory and is slow. There must be an optimal size.
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The Tungsten T3 has a 320x480 res LCD screen so optional resolution is 320x480, this does equate to a 2/3-3/2 aspect ratio. The 2x3 x75dpi aspect yields 150x225 resolution thus too small and 8x10 x75dpi aspect yeilds 600x750 resolution which is too big for the screen to fit. Using mspaint should give you the ability to set the resolution for both x and y axis or if you are using a more complex app use the 2/3 ratio with 120-150 DPI setting.
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HT1229 How do I reduce the size of photo in iPhoto? The size of my imported photos are 2 - 3 MB and for my purpose I need 200 - 400 KB. Any suggestions appreciated.

How do I reduce the size of photo in iPhoto? The size of my imported photos from my camera are 2 - 3 MB and for my purpose I need 200 - 400 KB. Scanned copies of older photographs with a size of 100 to 500 KB work very well. Any help is greatly appreciated.

File -> Export and make your choices in the Export dialogue.
Jpeg Quality and Size will have most effect on file size. Note that 'Size' refers to the pixel dimensions of the photo.
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
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I am trying to get a photo printed in canvas, b0 size. The original photo is 5472 x 3648 px, 193x128 cm. What happens is: if I adjust the photo in Photoshop it keeps the image size but if I import it into Lightroom to adjust it there, the photo is being

I have checked all the settings when importing..the maximum size Lightroom will keep it is 30x 40cm... Lightroom is doing it to all the photos I import into the program.
I need to be able to export my image from Lightroom in its original size and stop Lightroom of making it smaller.. Any clue on what should I try?
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Digital files don't have sizes in centimeters or inches, meters or yards. They have only pixels. If LR is not changing the number of pixels, it is not changing the digital image. When the image is printed, the number of pixels packed into every inch has a large effect on the quality of the print. This is the pixels per inch number, or "ppi". For a smooth print paper it is generally accepted that 300 ppi produces optimum quality, but for canvas a lower ppi, as low as 150 even, will do. Unfortunately, your camera puts a tag on the digital file which sets a default ppi of only 72. The reason is very anachronistic and silly and is a hangover from 30 years ago when Apple monitors had a resolution of 72 dpi, a measure long ago abandoned. That tag is misleading because it gives the impression that a very large print can be made from the pixels just as they come from the camera (the smaller the ppi, the larger the print) and some beginners think that is the only size print that can be made. But that not true. It is only a default tag, a suggestion, and it can be disregarded or changed (LR changes it to 240 ppi) and any sized print made. The real, operative, ppi will be the pixel dimensions divided by the print dimensions. Your image with all its pixels (uncropped other than to the 1:1.4 paper ratio) will have an operative 93 ppi on b0 paper which is a bit low. I would suggest using LR's resize function to double it to 7296 pixels on the short side.

TS1315 I have just purchased the new iPad with the camera connection kit. I just want to bewant to be able to insert my SD card into the Pad and only view my photos, not import them to the pad. Can this be done and how do I do this. Please advise. Thaj

I have just purchased the new iPad with the camera connection kit. I just want to be able insert my SD card into the Pad and view my photos, not import them.Can this be done and how? Please advise. Thank you.

See this article: iPad: Using the iPad Camera Connection Kit
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Is there a maximum size for photos used in a slideshow? I cannot anymore put my slideshow into a wmv

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Photos copies photos when importing even when told not to copy photos when importing?

The new Photos app is pretty cool.
The one thing I didn't like about iPhotos is still present here: Rather than handling my photos in the Finder it creates a weird database full of all the photos -- and the only way to get to them is via this one app. I guess maybe we'll have a solution for that in the future.
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I come back a couple hours later. And guess what? My Photos app/library is 8G in size! Photos has copied all my photos when importing. So now I have two copies of all my photos on my hard drive, and I am running out of space.
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Hi,
Thanks for the idea. Here is what I found:
The "Masters" folder is very small. 300MB.
The "Previews" folder is a similar size.
"Thumbnails" are under 1G.
It's the "Resources" folder that is many gigs in size.
Very interesting. So in a sense, it could be even worse!
That is, apparently the setting prevented the "Masters" folder from getting 8 gig of photos copied into it.
But even so, "Resources" ended up with 6.5G in it -- even though no files were copied!
Wild.
Other photo management apps (e.g., Lightroom) have sort of a 10% overhead, not a 90% overhead -- i.e., close to the same size as the actual photos themselves.
I should probably start a fresh question, now that you have solved half the mystery: Yes, the actual photos were not imported into Masters, but Resources gets really big!

Recommended size of photos

Just started using iM 8 on my 1.8 Dual G5 (Yes, it installed and works although it appears a little slowly)! Question: What is the size that photos need to be to insure they will import and display properly? I dragged a couple of photos from an external file and one showed perfectly and another was black. I resized them to 640x480 and no problems but is there a specific max?

Question: What is the size that photos need to be to insure they will import and display properly?
Not sure if there is a limit on the source photo but photo resources stored in the "Project" package are scaled. However, specific storage does seem to be somewhat contextual. For example, all of my source photos are 3008 x 2000 and my tests have been in the widescreen (16:9) mode. In one of my projects all of the photos were scaled and stored at 1624 x 1080 while in the other they were scaled and stored at 718 x 1080. First photo added to the project may determine how all other photos will be stored. In the case of the first project, the first photo was in a landscape orientation while in the second the first photo was in the portrait orientation. In addition, while all photos for my second project were stored in a "portrait" orientation, they were not stored using a "preserve aspect ratio" algorithm -- i.e., landscape photos were stored "squished" horizontally but were correctly displayed in the project and final output. Would, therefore conclude that the scaling algorithm may be based on the height of the first original photo added to/kept in a project and the aspect ratio of the project itself. Believe it might be interesting if you were to post back with comparison notes regarding the scaling and storage of your photos -- i.e., for both the original and the 640 x 480 cropped photos.
I dragged a couple of photos from an external file and one showed perfectly and another was black.
For the moment would assume the "black" display problem may have been due to the scaling and/or file format. Mine were all JPEG files. What were the dimensions and file compression format for your photos?

Ideal file size for photos

If I am making photo albums in iWeb, what is the ideal file size for the photo file?
My camera now is 7 megapixel, so the original file sizes are about 3 MB, obviously that'll be very slow to load.
To what file size should I save it to make it load at a reasonable speed and still have a reasonable quality? 500 KB? 200 KB?
In case this is a factor, the typical album I make would have about 40 - 50 photos.
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No Photos to Import

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Images in HD folder can be opened in PS; when trying to Import into LR 2.3, get error "No photos to Import".
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Yes, but they're in different folders. They're readily found----I sell my images, and this particular folder is a group of 24" images. The images can be found in other folders on my HD that contain different sizes of duplicates, up to 65". Many of the images are scattered around LR, and that's why I want to consolidate them by size in folders.
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I have iPad 1 and iPad 3 and iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S and ATV
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The box comes up that says "server does not recognize username or password".
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