PDI

Ok, resizing for entering our competitions.

Our set up presently uses and projects at 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels.

So what we need to do, after we have completed all our adjustments, is to adapt it for projection.

Ready?

Go to File, scroll down to Export & click🔆

In the box that comes up

Export to … Desktop

File Naming …

Tick box for rename to & select custom name - sequence

Custom text … your name, underscore, title (eg: Nick_Fern)

File Settings …

Image Format - change to jpeg

Quality - wind it up to 100

Colour space - sRGB

Image Sizing …

Tick box for resize to fit & select Width & Height. Tick Don’t Enlarge

Next line … W: (type in) 1920   H: (type in) 1080 

select pixels in the next box.

Resolution set at 300 pixels per inch (n.b. you only need 70 pixels per inch if you are putting your image on Facebook)

Metadata …

Include all Metadata 

Me, I also tick Remove Person info & Remove Location info boxes.

Click🔆 the red Export button at the bottom.

 

Your picture will now be placed on your desktop in the proper format for sending in to our competitions. Personally, I also save a copy to a subfolder alongside the origional file.

 

PRINT

OK, so we are after adjusting your image for printing.

What we need to do. (when you take your shot in the first place, make sure that you have space around the interesting part of your image)

You can do this adjustment at any time of the development of your processing. 

Go to the Crop Overlay tool click🔆 (you can also just click🔆 R on your keyboard)

Click🔆 on Original, and in the subsequent box you can now select many options including 1x1, 4x5 or 8x10

In the custom box you can also select you own sizing

Click🔆 Enter Custom …

You can now type in any size you want. (A4 is 210 by 300)

So now click🔆 on your preferred choice and a box appears around your image (now you understand why I recommended that you included space around the subject at the taking stage) The box, if you click🔆 and hold in the middle you can move the box around the picture. Click🔆 and hold in the corners to adjust it bigger or smaller.

Want to change the orientation, just click🔆 X on your keyboard.

 

Now we have completed all our adjustments, click🔆 on Print (top right) and in the subsequent box…

(because I take mine to the ARU) Print to: jpeg file

If you are doing your own prints select printer.

Print sharpening to standard.

JPEG quality up to 100

Profile … sRGB

Now at the bottom click🔆 Print to File & in the next box

Save as: Nick_Fern (for example)

Then save to Desktop.

 

Go to desktop, load the file onto a dongle & take it to the ARU for printing.

If you’d selected printer, it’s probably already chuntering away.