Vector PSD 72dpi to jepeg 350 dpi

My website designer sent me a PSD vector/smart object file 72 dpi of several versions of my Logo to use on the web and also on printed material for branding. I want to use the Logo on packaging and the lab requires the Logo to be a jepeg file at 300dpi. I have no idea how to do this. Tried cropping one of the Logos, flattening the file and enlarging it to 300dpi. The final product was completely pixilated and unusable. How do I do this correctly?

What does the "PSD vector/smart object file 72 dpi " document layer look like. If most are vector and text layers and there are not mant smart ojbedt layers. You may be able to open that file targets all the layers and create a logo layer group. Dragging that group into large new high resolution document and the transforming the copied group may work quit well and you will be able to save a good large high resolution jpeg image file. However the Smart Object layer transform like pixels layers the logo may still soften some only the vector and text layers would be transformed using vector graphic. Where placing in the logo psd would basically make a singe smart object layer. The logo would scale just like a raster pixel layer.

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Resizing an image will change its dimensions, but not the DPI/resolution.
Images on the Internet are usually at computer screen resolution of 72 DPI. Some images in the web might be at 150 DPI depending on the type of website it is.
Just resizing an image will make the image worst as you are only making the available pixels in the image larger and more spread out causing an even blurrier image.
You need an image editor that will increase the number of pixels in an image as you increase the size.
This is called interpolation. You are adding artificial pixels to an image to boost its DPI resolution.
These pixels are created from the surrounding existing pixels in an image.
Done correctly, you can get a pretty sharp image from a low DPI image.
Done incorrectly, you can make the image very ugly, blurry and look very out of focus.
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Some users use even smaller DPI increments like 25 DPI or smaller.
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This might explain it
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/370714
The device has the dpi not the file itself the file has a ppi resolution the screens are prepared in lpi.
The above explains it the highest resolution I have ever been asked for was 350 ppi for offset printing 300ppi is normal.
In other word you do not control the dpi as Steve mentions.

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1. Is this the correct way to determine the DPI of an image file?
2. Can I convert the image to 350 DPI?
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Oh yes, I did notice the Postscript connection. It was also a standard in Photoshop's View > Print Size, until somewhere along the way they allowed user input of screen resolution. (Sometime after PS 6.0.1) It made sense for print size display on a 72 ppi screen.
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Why LAB? ...or do you mean "lab"?
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I have a tiff file of a painting I scanned at 300 dpi. It's original image size when I open it is photoshop is 57.8 MB, 18" W by 12.477" H, Res 300.
That means you image is 18x300=5400px wide and 12.477x300=3743px high widthxheight=numbed of pixel 3 bytes per pixel for 8bit color 5400x3743x3=60,636,600 which is close to Photoshop 57.8MB estimate or the Tiff file is 57,8MB.
I need to resize it and send it as a 300 dpi jpeg.
Then all you have to do is resize the open document and save a jpeg file.
I have started in the image size dialogue box and just change the W to 11.25. That automatically changes the H to 7.798 and the res still says 300.
That means you also have RESAMPLE and Constrain checked in the Image Size dialog bottom control section and some interpolation method is set. Photoshop will reduce the number of pixels you have for the image. When you click on OK Photoshop will generate a new image that is 11.25x300=3375px wide and 7.798x300=2339px high
The file size reduces to 22.6 MB.
The file is not changed when you use Image Size. The Tiff file remains as it was before it was opened. Photoshop is a document editor not a file editor.
I click ok and then go to save as and choose jpeg.
When you use "Save as" and use the pull-down menu and select Jpeg you will be saving a new file and not be over writing the tiff file.
In the jpeg box I chose 12 Max
That is a quality setting the higher the number (Max 12) the better the file quality will be the file will be less compressed then when lower quality setting are used. You would be hard pressed to see any image quality difference between quality 10 file and quality 12 file. The quality 10 file size will be quite a bit smaller then a quality 12 jpeg file.
and baseline standard and click ok. The saved file is reduced to 8.5 MB.
The new jpeg file size is a product of the jpeg quality setting and how well the image data compresses. Size can vary all over the place. Images with lots of fine details will be larger then images with little detail. An image of a white wall will compress much smaller the an image with the same number of pixels that has a lot of details like an image of a cross word puzzle.
When I open it in photoshop, it opens at 300 dpi when I look in the image size box.
Correct you did not change the resolution when you resampled the image.
However, when I send it to someone else and they open it, the file is only 72 dpi. What am I missing to get the file to save at 11.25 inches, jpeg, but remain 300 dpi?
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Toni....
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