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Hi:
N00b here — apologies in advance.
I’m documenting a bunch of 16 x 20 black and white photographic prints. I’ve printed a postcard sized 4×6 description of each photo and placed it in the lower left-hand portion of the photo. I’ve taken a picture of this print with the description with a Canon 600SD 6 mp digital camera, at 1600×1200 resolution. The result is a .jpg image of about 700 KB.
The overall photo is fine, but the text in the label is very poor. The title line is Arial 20pt, barely readable, but the rest has to be blown up and even then is very poor. Pixel calcs are below. Clearly 75 – 80 ppi is far below the 300 dpi you get with a printer. What I want is a vector or hires label so that the viewer of the jpg can see the text description onscreen as clearly as he/she can read this text in this message.
My question is: how do I place a high-resolution label on this photograph? It doesn’t look like Photoshop Elements can do this. It appears to need a separate higher res or vector layer to be placed on top of the photo. Do I need to use the regular Photoshop or perhaps Adobe Illustrator to do this?
TIA
— Roy Zider
horizontal: 1600 pixels / 20" = 80 ppi
vertical: 1200 pixels / 16 " = 75 ppi
(1600 x 1200) / (20 x 16) = 6000 pixels/sq in = 77.5 ppi linear
N00b here — apologies in advance.
I’m documenting a bunch of 16 x 20 black and white photographic prints. I’ve printed a postcard sized 4×6 description of each photo and placed it in the lower left-hand portion of the photo. I’ve taken a picture of this print with the description with a Canon 600SD 6 mp digital camera, at 1600×1200 resolution. The result is a .jpg image of about 700 KB.
The overall photo is fine, but the text in the label is very poor. The title line is Arial 20pt, barely readable, but the rest has to be blown up and even then is very poor. Pixel calcs are below. Clearly 75 – 80 ppi is far below the 300 dpi you get with a printer. What I want is a vector or hires label so that the viewer of the jpg can see the text description onscreen as clearly as he/she can read this text in this message.
My question is: how do I place a high-resolution label on this photograph? It doesn’t look like Photoshop Elements can do this. It appears to need a separate higher res or vector layer to be placed on top of the photo. Do I need to use the regular Photoshop or perhaps Adobe Illustrator to do this?
TIA
— Roy Zider
horizontal: 1600 pixels / 20" = 80 ppi
vertical: 1200 pixels / 16 " = 75 ppi
(1600 x 1200) / (20 x 16) = 6000 pixels/sq in = 77.5 ppi linear
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