[PADG:1759] Re: Picture Library: sizes and resolution

["Philip Merrill" <veyr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may not be ideal, but the practice I'm used to is JPEG's no more han
2,000 pixels wide and thumbnails about 200 pixels wide. The big images tend
to be about 300K which is not too bad. Personally I prefer TIFFs but they're
always at least 1MB that size and range up to about 3.5 MB. Also, you will
need much better resolution if you're planning to use a big color image like
for a "centerfold." The digital sizes for these are so intense that I
wouldn't use this for every image. Just calculate that at a minimum you need
a pixel for each of the dots in inches-times-dpi. If you want leeway to
color-correct and photo-edit the image, you'll need two or three times that.
Again I like TIFF. Once when we wanted 1 picture for our Web site, our
magazine graphic artist sent over a TIFF on ZIP disk that was 80MB! Good
luck finding the right happy medium for your organization.
PHIL :)
Philip Merrill


----- Original Message -----
From: Sebastian John
To: padg@xxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:50 AM
Subject: [PADG:1757] Picture Library: sizes and resolution


The publishing group where I work is building a digital library. The
pictures will be for the newspaper and the magazine that the group
publishes. Would someone suggest the ideal image size and the resolution the
pictures need to be scanned so as to benefit both the users.

Regards

Sebastian John
Picture Coordinator
The Week
Malayala Manorama
Cochin 682036
Kerala, India
Tel:  0091-484-316285
Fax: 0091-484-315745