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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Giedo on May 18, 2006, 03:38:49 am

Title: sharpening for print orders...
Post by: Giedo on May 18, 2006, 03:38:49 am

Hi,

I use photokit sharpener when printing at home: capture sharpening, creative sharpening and output sharpening - mostly at 300dpi. I'm very happy with the results.

Now I want to order coffee table books at shutterfly.com. Do I use the same sharpening tools and amount as I used to when printing at home?

Any experience with sharpening when ordering prints / albums will help.
Tia, Giedo

Title: sharpening for print orders...
Post by: 61Dynamic on May 18, 2006, 12:24:08 pm

Services such as shutterfly use chemical processing with printers such as AGFAs or Frontiers. You will need to use the Contone (continuous tone) setting for those printers.

Don't worry about the native printer resolution. Just crop and size the image without resampling. Whatever dpi you get after that is what you should sharpen for. For example, after changing the image dimensions (again, without resampling so the image pixels aren't changed) if the dpi reads 240.555 in the image size dialog, then you'd set PK to Contone, 250dpi.

Title: sharpening for print orders...
Post by: Giedo on May 18, 2006, 01:11:30 pm

Thanks Daniel! Exactly the info I needed.