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Hello!

I have about 200 photos which I want to put onto disk for someone, however I do not want the person to be able to print off all the photos. What I have been doing in Photoshop is making a duplicate of each photo and saving one as 85dpi and one as 300dpi. Now this will take a very long time to do! Is there a quicker way??

Thanks

Jenni
 
I have a windows plugin called image resizer, which you right click and it does them all in one go.
 
set up an action in PS
 
Are you changing just the dpi or resizing (reducing the number of pixels) also?
Changing the dpi won't have any effect on how large they can print them if the picture size remains the same.
 
Wouldn't it be better to resize them to certain pixel dimensions rather than a dpi value? :shrug:

I may be wrong, but the dpi value is irrelevant if the resolution is 4288x2848 for example. If you resize to 800 pixels by whatever, then anyone will have trouble getting a print out of that, but it will fill most screens.


As for a quick way to do it, I use the Image Processor in Bridge to resize to 800 pixels on the longest side. It takes as long as it takes, the more files there are, the longer it takes. :shrug:
 
As mentioned above, dpi change does nothing, it's the resolution that matters. A batch process action to resize, or even a contact sheet of ~20 images per page might do it.

Some people will print 800px images though... :D
 
JT74 said:
Some people will print 800px images though... :D
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Possibly, and I've had a company use one of my images on a slide show on their website, so no need to print. If you want to limit usage, but actually show your images, you have to make compromises. I think 800px is a decent compromise. Others may want to add water marks, I'd rather not. I'm not a Pro though, and don't need to try and protect my work 100% so as not to lose money. :shrug:

Of course the only way to protect your images 100% is to not show them to anyone. ;) :lol:
 
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