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Old 28-06-08, 17:44
Zoe Zoe is offline
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Question High Res/Low Res? DPI? sRBG/RGB?....aargh Help!

Hi all

Ok, a number of potentially silly questions here, but I am trying to get my head around image conversion/ resolutions.

Question 1: A fellow photographer said to me that if I am looking to take portrait photos for customers I should be aiming for high resolution pics (around 300 dpi), and that I should be working in SRGB.

When I have taken previous photo's in JPEG fine, properties show that I am indeed doing this. However I took some recent pictures of friends in RAW and properties show the colour representation as "uncalibrated", what does this mean?

Question 2: If a high res picture is 300dpi then what is considered a low res? and is it right that I should be aiming for 300dpi?

Question 3: If the average person is more likely to go to Tesco to print off their photos as opposed to a professional printers, should I have worked in RGB instead of sRGB? (correct me if I am wrong but it seems that sRGB is the format to use only when saving to the web or for professional printing?).

A layman explanation of any of the above questions is greatly appreciated, I am getting very confused!

Thanks all

Zoe
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