Hello:
I am trying to put pictures into a book for publication. The pictures I upload must be between 300 dpi and 400 dpi and in .jpeg format. I have MGI PhotoSuite II SE and my scanner is a Visioneer One Touch 8100. The pictures I am using are printed and centered on 8.5x11 sheets. I did the following 4 things with one of my pictures: 1) pre-cropped and then scanned in at 600 dpi; 2) scanned in as an 8.5x11 at 600 dpi; 3)pre-cropped and then scanned in at 100 dpi; 4) scanned in as an 8.5x11 at 100 dpi. I saved each one to my desktop for comparison. The problem is, when I check the properties on them, they all say 96 dpi.
No.1) width = 1874 pixels; height = 2473 pixels; both horizontal and vertical resolution = 96 dpi
No. 2) width = 1919 pixels; height = 2505 pixels; both horizontal and vertical resolution = 96 dpi
No. 3) width = 311 pixels; height = 415 pixels; both horizontal and vertical resolution = 96 dpi
No. 4) width = 317 pixels; height = 423 pixels; both horizontal and vertical resolution = 96 dpi
How can this be? How do I get them into the 300 to 400 dpi range that is required? The first two (1 & 2) which were scanned at 600 dpi are quite large (covering nearly the entire page) when I insert them into a word document, making me assume that when I size them down to the original size that they should then be at about 600 dpi. The second two (3 & 4) which were scanned at 100 dpi are about their original size (approx. 3x4) when I insert them into a word document, enforcing my belief that the larger ones are becoming a much higher dpi when sized back down to their original size. It doesn’t seem to matter if they are scanned into PhotoSuite pre-cropped or at the 8.5x11 size and then cropped in PhotoSuite before I save them. They still come out the same sizes respectively when I insert them into a word document. Please let me know if I am correct, that the dpi goes back up when I size them down.
My problem then becomes trying to figure out what dpi to scan them at in accordance to the size of the finished product I want. Is there any way to know what the dpi actually is once they are in the word document? And, is there any comparison chart that you could send me or point me toward to download that will give me these sizing stats. I need to know that each picture, and they are of many sizes and shapes, will all ultimately be in the 300 to 600 dpi range for the publisher.
Also, a few of the pictures take up nearly the whole 8.5x11 page--so how can I get them to at least 300 dpi? Maybe I am reading this wrong and I should be multiplying the height and width dpi, in which case the dpi would be extremely high however. Please clear this up for me.
Thank you for your time and patients in reading this, but I didn’t know how to explain it in any shorter form and still get my point across of what I am up against.
Sincerely,
Sandra Hookham
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