101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P34:Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos. | Getting Published 151 Figure Image before tweaking Levels sliders. Figure Image after tweaking Levels sliders. 152 Getting Published If the photo is going to be displayed small then your quality can be low and thus your file size can be small . If you re going to display it large then you ll want your quality high. Making Your Photos Magazine Ready In the Resizing Your Photos for Different Uses section in Chapter 1 there is a description of how to resize photos. In the Selling Photos to Regional Magazines section in Chapter 8 the requirements for magazine submissions are listed. Arizona Highways requires a 12x18-inch digital photo with 300 ppi resolution. That s one big photo. Most magazines don t require the resolutions to be that great. In order to meet that image resolution requirement you d need a camera on the order of the new Canon 21 MP EOS 5D Mark II. For a great megapixel print dimension chart check out http toolbox . No matter what the resolution of your photos is you d best be sure that when you view the photos you are going to be submitting at 100-percent resolution on your computer screen in Photoshop type 100 into the lower-left corner of the window in which your picture is displayed they are sharp in every detail. If not don t bother sending them because magazines won t accept them. Okay so what if you don t have a 21-MP camera for taking photos fit for Arizona Highways You can try other magazines such as Dog Fancy if you take pictures of dogs most of which require a minimum of 300 dpi for a 5x7 photo. To check how big your images are you need to open an image one taken with your camera set at its highest resolution which would be the Raw setting on most dSLRs and navigate to Image Image Size. A dialog box will come up see Figure . Uncheck the box next to where it says Resample Image. When Resample Image isn t checked you can change the values of Width Height or Resolution and Photoshop Elements will .
