96 to 300dpi??

[digger]

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have a piccie, (same as in my sig line) needs to be converted from 96 dpi to 300 dpi.

Can it be done and keep the sizes etc?
I am looking into getting a few stickers made but the rules
seem to be it must be 300dpi..

I cannot work it out...
cheers
Digger

step x ste

[Blknight.aus]

its easy if you have paintshop pro.

load the image,
select resize
change the pixels/cm setting and hit ok.
(may come up as pixels per inch if your measurments are set to imperial.


if you'd like email me the piccy and I'll do it for you.

another way of doing it would be to open the image, grab its details (overall size in cm)
make a new blank canvas the same size in cm with the pixel count set to 300DPI
copy all of the original image and then paste it onto the new blank canvas.

[digger]

its easy if you have paintshop pro.

load the image,
select resize
change the pixels/cm setting and hit ok.
(may come up as pixels per inch if your measurments are set to imperial.


if you'd like email me the piccy and I'll do it for you.

another way of doing it would be to open the image, grab its details (overall size in cm)
make a new blank canvas the same size in cm with the pixel count set to 300DPI
copy all of the original image and then paste it onto the new blank canvas.

no paintshop pro, but do have email!! :twisted:

I'll flick it thru thanks BK!

[DeanoH]

Have another chat with your sticker making people. There's little point in trying to convert a picture from 96dpi to 300dpi.
The DPI or dots per inch of the picture relates to the quality of the picture, the more dots per inch the greater the 'resolution' or the better the quality of picture. Very important especially if you are going to blow a picture up for example.
If your original is a 96dpi picture that's as good as it's going to get. If the resolution isn't there to start with it can't be created afterwards. All an 'upscaling' software program can do make more dots from the average in the original to end up with more dots but the resolution does not improve.
When resizing or 'downscaling' it's a different story, the software can see exactly what was captured in the original and make adjustments accordingly.
You can't make something out of nothing.
For graphics (as oposed to photos) as long as the end result isn't blown up too large your 96 dpi should be fine.

Deano :)

[Blknight.aus]

some sticker printers have a minimum resolution setting of 300dpi

if your image is in a lower resolution it prints smaller... the work laser etcher suffers from this bug we just use the image editor to save it in a higher resolution.

[Chucaro]

The best chance will be if the image is in raw or tiff. If it is compressed to jpg then there is a lot of information missing.
I have some special software and I can try to do something for you but I o not promessing that will be an awesome result.
Happy to help :)