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12 years 9 months ago #110275 by Kryddle
My fiance took a picture of his fire gear that he loves. I want to edit the picture to look a bit more rugged/grungy/hardcore. I am not sure how to describe it, Manly maybe? I want to do this and print as an 8x10 with a black border around it and in the black border I want to put a firefighters quote. I want to do this for his birthday which is in a couple weeks. I have photoshop CS4 student version. any suggestions, critiques and instructions you can give on how to make this picture better will be greatly appreciated!!! :thumbsup:
Also what is the best format to save pictures you want to print ( Large and small prints ) as well as best quality.

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12 years 9 months ago #110279 by The Time Capturer
The only thing I can really comment on here is the printing. Despite the size of the print, it should match the printer's resolution. If I remember correctly, most desktop printers print at a resolution of 96 dpi (someone correct me if I'm wrong). If your image is lower, say 76 dpi, the quality of the print will suffer slightly.

As far as setting up the image (which I like), I'm imagining a fuzzy edge that fades into the black border.

Good luck with this project. Hopefully, someone can give you better advice.
Sure, practice makes perfect but, unless you learn from your mistakes, you are only perfecting your ability to fail.
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12 years 9 months ago #110309 by Shadowfixer1
If you are printing them yourself, save them as .psd. That is the native PhotoShop format. If you are taking them out and the printing folks can handle .tiff I would use that or save as .jpg at highest quality. I would save at 300 dpi for printing and 72 dpi for on-line stuff.

One hint about getting the black border you want is to use the "stroke" command in PhotoShop. It makes quick work of a border. Set foreground color to black, then select all, then chose the stroke command and set your width.
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12 years 9 months ago #110446 by photobod

Shadowfixer1 wrote: If you are printing them yourself, save them as .psd. That is the native PhotoShop format. If you are taking them out and the printing folks can handle .tiff I would use that or save as .jpg at highest quality. I would save at 300 dpi for printing and 72 dpi for on-line stuff.

One hint about getting the black border you want is to use the "stroke" command in PhotoShop. It makes quick work of a border. Set foreground color to black, then select all, then chose the stroke command and set your width.


Great advice from shadowfixer on the printing and border issue.
On the topic of grungy or hardcore, take a look at the HDR settings and play with them, there are a few choices but go through every one until you find something you like, alternatively try adding noise or grain in the filters drop down, the only other thing I can think of is that you try dodging and burning bringing out certain elements and darkening others.
Dont forget to let us see the final phot or even the experiments leading up to it, would make a great album.
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"A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective." - Irving Penn
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12 years 9 months ago #110482 by Dori
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Don't pi$$ me off, I am running out of room to store the bodies...

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12 years 9 months ago - 12 years 9 months ago #110638 by Kryddle
Thank you so much everyone for the advice. Keep your fingers crossed for me :side:
I will definately post the practice and final pictures.

Wow do I have a lot to learn. I am new to PS and printing after editing. Normally I would go to Walgreens, Walgreens.com or Walmart.com, edit the pictures thru there site and order the prints (for my point and shoot) and they looked so pixaleated (sp?)
I am looking to order more Canvas and very large prints of photos taken. Advice where to get pictures printed? Stay away from online printing (ex: walgreens, walmart, snapfish, kodak, etc) ?

I am so glad I found this site! Great people, Great Advice and Great team work! You all are AMAZING! :woohoo:
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12 years 9 months ago #110646 by Shadowfixer1
They shouldn't be pixelated unless you are only capturing a small file. Make sure you are saving the appropriate file in camera. My father-in-law uses Walgreens and his pics are perfectly fine and he has no clue as to what he is doing.
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