[shutterbugs]

Hello everyone and good day. So I have a little issue I'm sure a lot of you have had. I created a good amount of designs in photoshop CS4. I made them 15in by 10in. chose inches rather than pixels. helped me with shirt size. Anyway, I forwarded them to a screen printer too look at in the PSD format. He stated they are all 72-90 DPI. I resaved them as a jpeg and went into properties and confirmed this. I then went into Photoshop and went into image resized and changed resolution to 300 DPI. It now lowers it to 5in which won't work.

Am I out of luck and new to start over. For example. making my initial canvas 300 DPI. I know sizing up never works well.

any suggestions would greatly be appreciated

 

[RatedOG]

It's always best to start with the size and dpi settings in the size you need to print. From now on you can keep that in mind that a 72 dpi image is really only good for web sites and such. I usually use 300+ dpi for all designs I create.

It will be alot of work it sounds for you to re-create all your designs with the correct dpi settings. Depending on your designs I suggest you take the time to create vector files of your designs. This will allow you to easily scale your designs for any size you need. Maybe using live trace you could get a decent result? Or at least you will become fluent with the pen tool.

Sorry, but I don't believe your designs will work by increasing from a lower dpi, it usually produces bad looking images when you try to scale them back up.

 

[Scale Angel Desi]

I do not use photoshop personally. I use CorelDraw and Corels PhotoPaint when needed. But...Most of what I do is photo trading items and such with the occassional screen print design. I almost always design in vector regardless of the end product because of scaleability. From Vector you can convert to a jpg but not the other way.

Vector when possible.

 

[anderson30]

Here's some tip , when you want to enlarge a 72 DPI in photoshop to 300 dpi use an IMAGE ENLARGEMENT program. Photoshop image resizer is not quite good in this matter. It come as a plugin to your current version Photoshop.

 

[Optiq]

What you should do is start a new photoshop file, set the inches to the size you need and type in the resolution. When the new file opens, click on the tab to your graphic file and in the layers window to the right select all the layers by clicking on the first one and click on the last one while holding shift. Push ctrl+a to select all and with the move tool click and drag the image over to the new tab you opened with the higher resolution. It may take a second for it to shift over, when it does drop the image on the canvas by releasing the mouse button and all the layers will come over in order. With all the layers selected on the new file push ctrl+t to transform and hold shift while you drag the corners so it stays proportionate, this will re-size the whole image and prevent you from having to copy and paste one by one re-adjusting everything so they line up.

 

[MaximRecoil]

Am I out of luck and new to start over. For example.

Yes, you are out of luck and have to start over; assuming you want quality results from the printer that is. When you start over, start with a 15" x 10", 300 DPI canvas.

Better yet, if your design is suitable for it, create it in a vector program such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, which will give the best possible results when printed. Vector files can always max out a printer's or imagesetter's capability when making the film positives, whereas a 300 DPI raster file will max out few printers' capabilities, and not even approach an imagesetter's capabilites. So when designing in a vector program, you don't have to worry about DPI, or even size, because the size of a vector image can be infinitely scaled without losing any quality.