Beginner Image re sizing for print?

Shaun Palmer

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Evening everyone! First post here!

Do you resize your photos to the print size you are going to get them printed at, and is there any need to re size? And if you do what method do you use? For example, take a full res image and scale it down to 6x4

I've sat for hours today and there are a lot of different ways people like to do it and I'm now more confused than when I started researching!

The general jist of it from what I can gather from around the web is, Photoshop > Sharpen > Image size with resample to desired size > sharpen (after all other initial edits, w/b etc)

Thanks
 
Welcome!

My process depends who's printing them. Most online labs will resize for you but also specify their preferred settings if you want to do it yourself. For instance The Print Space use 300dpi for most of their processes.

So I'll add a little bit of sharpening to the raw image in Lightroom and process in Photoshop. Then for everyday images I'll export from Lightroom and in the export dialog use the inbuilt resizing and print sharpening on low.

For important images I do rather more.. https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/processing-workflow.625265/
 
Shaun Palmer said:
Thanks Simon. So for the most part, as long as the aspect ratio is the same as the print size, for general prints, there really isn't much need to re size for a print is there after all the adjustments?
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Again, it depends on who's printing it and how much control you want over the output. Some will resize and crop for you, some will colour correct, some will adjust levels and some will sharpen as they resize. Your chosen lab will have a FAQ somewhere indicating what they actually do and what their preferred input is.

Pro labs seem to do less than the consumer-oriented ones, though there are a few pro labs who offer a full image optimisation service where they do all of the above carefully and individually - and charge for the privilege.
 
juggler said:
Again, it depends on who's printing it and how much control you want over the output. Some will resize and crop for you, some will colour correct, some will adjust levels and some will sharpen as they resize. Your chosen lab will have a FAQ somewhere indicating what they actually do and what their preferred input is.

Pro labs seem to do less than the consumer-oriented ones, though there are a few pro labs who offer a full image optimisation service where they do all of the above carefully and individually - and charge for the privilege.
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Ah I see, do you have any pro labs you recommend, I just use truprint at the minute. I'd pretty much want them to look the way I've edited without any corrections at a lab end
 
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Shaun Palmer said:
Ah I see, do you have any pro labs you recommend, I just use truprint at the minute. I'd pretty much want them to look the way I've edited without any corrections at a lab end
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I can't remember what the few consumer-oriented labs I've used actually do; some of them may do no adjustments at all.

In the past I've used SimLab, Loxley & OneVision. These days I use The Print Space, Metro or Ilford, partly down to the choice of papers & print technologies as much as the quality of the output.

SimLab are remarkably good value.

I'm sure there are lots of either worthwhile labs too.
 
If you just want to resize a batch of images in photoshop it's easy enough to setup an action but there are easier options I think
 
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