Converting, Resizing needed to enable print

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Using a canon eos 500d, have taken lots of shots since owning the camera (10mnths) but i have yet to print any.


Software mainly used at the moment is Canon DPP for importing and tweaking a little bit and converting from raw. I am also slowly getting my head round CS5 and having a little bit of a play with lightroom 3.4.

I will be shooting just as a guest at a friends christening so no pressure (not main photographer) just having a play.

Would like to give them a disc with all the pictures on.

I currently convert to the largest jpg file size is that best or should i be using tiff or something else?

Is resizing needed to enable the picture to be printed out?

Thanks
 
No, just leave the pictures as they are and let the printers software resize it for you.


Give them the jpeg's, they will be fine.
 
Highest quality jpeg will be fine, no need to resize. Just keep the same sized ratio. 2x3 on the 500D which is the same ratio as 4x6 and 6x9 printable by most photo printing places. That is unless you want something different. Viewing on screen you don't need to worry about making it fit on bits of card so crop as you see fit.

If you are exporting from the raw processor then editing in another program, save and edit as tiff, only save the final image as jpeg. Editiing and re-saving jpegs causes loss of quality.
 
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